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The Martin Lundqvist Racing Street Week Sweden Drag and Drive 1969 Camaro Project Continues! The 8HP and LS Get Custom Mounts!

I can’t wait to see Project 508 in person in Sweden in a few weeks! This project is in full swing and we are super excited about what is going on with this machine. We’ve got another couple...

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Our Final Gallery of Lost Buckeye Skips Day One Drag and Drive Photos! We’ve Got On Track Action and Checkpoints, and More From Day 2 Coming!

Here’s our third gallery of lost photos from Day 1 of Buckeye Skip’s Drag and Drive, and we’ve got plenty more where that came from! Plus, if you missed the previous photos...

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All The Racing Action From This Weekend’s SCTA El Mirage Flying Mile. 200 MPH Plus On Dirt! Watch Right Here.

While Bonneville gets most of the attention in Land Speed Racing, because it clearly is home to the biggest and baddest land speed racing events of the year, most land speed racers will tell you that...

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Dirt Daily with Fred Williams. His Barn Find 1989 Land Cruiser FJ-62 gets a Dissent Off Road Rear Bumper!

Years and years ago I built a 1987 Toyota FJ-62 for my buddy Sean and I loved it. We painted it, lifted it, improved a bunch of suspension and drivetrain, and then he drove the hell out of it. It was...

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Larry Chen AWD K24 Turbo EG & Drift S13 Feature Video: Indonesia’s Top Tuner Show Produced These Two Amazing Builds!

These things are siiiccckkkkk. Yes, I love the EG hatch a bit more than the S13, but that’s because I have one at home. This one here looks absolutely insane and I love it. But so does the S13...

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Have They Successfully Turned This Old Farm Truck into a Killer Street Machine Using Scrapyard Ford Parts! Bumpside Ford Goodness Part 4!

In Part 3 of the series, this beast went for its first test drive. Now it’s actually being put through its paces! Here’s the Part 4 video in the series, and that means actual testing!...

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2014 Spring Charlotte AutoFair – Huge Numbers Of The South’s Coolest Cars Gather In Charlotte

(Photos by Jesse Kiser) – Twice a year, the the Charlotte Motor Speedway is not filled with the rumbling noises of NASCAR stock cars but rather with the gleaming paint, shiny wheels, and...

Watch a $300,000 Gemballa McLaren Wreck At Extreme High Speed on the Nurburgring – In Car Video

Don’t feel bad if you’ve never heard of a Gemballa McLaren, we hadn’t either until we saw this wild wrek video that features one getting torn to pieces during the 24 Hours of the...

Lonestar Round Up 2014 – Swap Meet Treasures And More Great Hot Rods

(Photos by Charles Wickam) – We’re still rolling hard with Charles Wickam’s photos from the 2014 Lonestar Round Up car show in Texas. Today’s dispatch looks at the swap meet...

Riding For Three Minutes On The Hood Of Robby Gordon’s Trophy Truck Is Screaming V8 Dirt Porn

The 2014 Mint 400 didn’t go as planned for Robby Gordon. He blew his truck up and that was that, but thankfully before the munched up transmission, there was this glorious three minute video...

2014 Mopar Spring Fling – The 40 Mopars We Wanted To Drive, Tow, Or Push Home!

(Words and photos by Darr Hawthorne) – The yearly gathering of Mopars at Woodley Park is a longtime tradition for gearheads and Mopar geeks from all over the northern hemisphere. The 2014...

Here’s What Happened When Some Rocket Geniuses Unleashed An Open Nitrous Bottle On A Cobalt SS

(Words by Bryan McTaggart) – The Chevy Cobalt is currently underneath some scrutiny lately, with dangerous ignition cylinders and all that. And apparently a group of racers have decided that...

2014 OPG Classic Car Show – Our Second Load Of Photos From The Great Event

Combine chamber of commerce weather with a couple hundred classic GM products, prize giveaways, and one of the most well known companies in the restoration parts business and what do you get? It is...

2014 Omaha Autorama – Our Last Collection Of Photos From The 59th Annual Show

(Photos by Scott Liggett) – For the last few days we have been taking you around the 2014 Omaha Autorama, a tradition that has been happening in the Omaha, Nebraska area for nearly 60 years....

Inside Lingenfelter Performance Engineering: We Tour The Hallowed Horsepower Haven In Indiana

(Photos by Dave Nutting and Craig Fitzgerald) – When I initially reached out to Mike Copeland at Lingenfelter Performance Engineering about making a banzai trip out to see the Decatur, Indiana...

Before Earl “Lucky” Teter, Joie Chitwood and Evel Knievel, B. Ward Beam invented the auto thrill show

The following advertisement appeared in the Amherst (N.Y.) Bee on August 6, 1931:  Wanted: Single man, not over 25 years, to drive automobile in head-on collision with another car at the Albion...

Funny Video: Check Out This Wanton VW “Stress Testing”

In regards to vehicles, have you ever owned a “beater”? I’m not talking about a vehicle that’s a little long in the tooth that you neglect performing regular maintenance on...

Video: Frankie Taylor Goes 3.48/216 At Rockingham – Traction Control On Board – Good or Bad?

Of all the huge runs made at the first ever PDRA race at Rockingham Dragway last weekend, the one that the internet has really been freaking out about is Frankie “The Mad Man”...

Goodguys Del Mar 2014 – Our Torrent Of Photos Coverage Continues

Like the Lonestar Round up, we went nuts with the camera at the 2014 Goodguys Del Mar show last weekend and for good reason. The quality of the cars and the different styles of builds we saw kept us...

Cool Motorhome – Nutty Price – Would You Pay $75,000 For This 1973 Roxor?

If you are looking for one of the neatest and more rare examples of a 4×4 motorhome from the 1970s, we’ve got it right here in front you. In addition, this one also appeared on TV as part...