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One has a Flathead, One a Blown Olds, But Somehow These Traditional Hot Rods Share the Same Soul

There is just something about a traditional styled hot rod that just makes people smile. Even folks that wouldn’t describe themselves as traditional hot rod fans somehow find themselves drawn...

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From Dirty Dozen to Unreal Adventure 2026 Invited Subscriber: Pete Meyer and his 1963 Willys Wagon Made The Cut!

A few days ago we shared the Unreal Adventure Dirty Dozen, those 12 rigs that came from more than 100 submissions to be chosen to participate in Unreal Adventure 2026. Out of those 12, 5 will be...

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Retropower’s Austin Allegro Build Is Restomod Greatness. But is it Hiding a Secret? You Bet Your Ass It Is!

This here is something special. It’s not that an Austin Allegro is at the top of my british car list, but it is certainly up there! And when you see what has been done to make this what some...

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Building A 1968 Camaro Drift Car In Autoshop, and Then Taking It To The SEMA Show AND PRI! This is Something Special!

When the Los Angeles Career Center decides to do something, they go all in. Given the fact that Southern California is the epicenter of hot rodding and racing, it makes sense that a project like this...

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Jay Leno Takes a ride in ONE of the TWO 1914 Knox Model 46s still in Existence: This is a 496 CI Overhead-Valve Monster From the Nethercutt Collection!

Sometimes we forget just how bad ass humans were 100-140 years ago. I say this because the amount of invention and ingenuity that was happening in the world was just insane. I mean people came up...

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Four Into Six: Watch How Allen Millyard Made His Own Kawasaki Z1 Six Cylinder Block At Home

It’s purely amazing what the right mind with the right hands and the right tools can make. This video follows yesterday’s where Allen Millyard showed us how he made the cylinder jugs for...

Puddin’s Fab Shop Model A Project Update: Will the steering clear?? Gas Pedal, HIDDEN Battery and MORE! 1930 FORD MODEL A!

When we sit around scheming our next projects, it is super easy to get caught up in the big stuff when in fact the small stuff is what can really make or break a project. The smallest thing done...

1932 Ford Roadsters, A Boat Load Of 1932 Ford Parts & A 1938 Ford Convertible Test Drive – A Week In The Life Of Iron Trap Garage

There are lots of times when I’m watching a video from one of my favorite YouTubers and find myself wondering what the average week is like for them. I can’t be alone, but most of them...

Our Bonneville Speed Week 2024 Photos Just Keep Coming! – It’s Hot, Hot, Hot, But The Salt Is Good, The Cars Are Fast, And Records Are Falling!

Here you go gang! More awesome rides on the salt at Bonneville! It’s so good to be back out at Bonneville, and I’ve been shooting photos all day each day, along with contributors Claudia Robles...

We Drive It: The 2024 GMC Yukon Denali Ultimate – A One Option Study In Modern SUV Opulence

In the modern world of new cars, there’s not a lot of opportunity for a buyer to do what was the norm decades ago. That was the process of effectively line item selection various options, both...

Alex Taylor Makes Two 236 MPH Record Breaking Runs To Set A Record And Get Her 200 MPH Club Red Hat! Speed Week 2024 – Day 5

It wasn’t without some hurdles, that’s for sure, but Alex Taylor did us all proud and wheeled the Camaro to a record qualifying 236 mph on Monday morning and then backed it up the same...

A Day At The Digs Circa The 1970s At Orange County International Raceway

I love these types of videos. Why? Because they really take you to a normal day at the drag strip decades ago and you realize that a normal day at the strip back then was about the same as it is now,...

1980s Supermodified Mayhem From Oswego Speedway In New York – Fire, Tempers, and Fires Flare!

There are few places if any that are more synonymous with Supermodified racing across the country than Oswego Speedway in New York. Opened in 1951 as a 5/8th mile dirt track it was that surface and...

A Formidable Fox: The 1992 SAAC Mark II Mustang Was Big Bucks Back In The Day But It Hauled

There were so many variants of the Fox Mustang built both by Ford and other places back in the 1980s and 1990s that it seems like a fool’s errand to try and place them all. Because of that,...

Big Thrash: Watch A Kiwi Caterpillar Crew Rebuild A D8R That Lives In Antarctica!

Overhauls are among our favorite things to watch on the internet. That’s doubly true when the video is produced and laid out as well as this one is. There’s a reason for that though....

Alex Taylor Is Racing At Bonneville Speed Week 2024 – Day 3 and 4 Means Some Racing, Some Thrashing, And More Racing!

As we said yesterday, Alex is back out at Bonneville after getting here licensing runs done last year here at Bonneville Speed Week, and she’s all fired up to be going after a record behind the...

Bonneville Speed Week 2024 Photos – The Salt Is Good, The Cars Are Crushing Records, And Speed Demon, Alex Taylor, And More Are Looking For Hats!

It’s so good to be back out at Bonneville, and I’ve been shooting photos all day each day, along with contributors Claudia Robles and Stephen Komlos. We’re going to be posting a...

Powershift: Road Trip! We’re talking about our favorites that have nothing to do with racing!

On last week’s edition of PowerShift, we were talking about road trips, and particularly the ones that have nothing to do with racing. So no One Lap of America, no Drag Week, no Rocky Mountain...

Influence and Impact – Car Audio History, AM Radio to Cars that Go Boom, World Record Sound Offs

Marcel and Jason are back at it, this time talking about Car Audio history and that means we’re going to hear about so many evolutionary and revolutionary steps in the area of automotive...