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Derek is Taking A 1,600 Mile Journey To Trade One Of Vice Grip Garages More Popular Trucks For The Ride He Sold And Instantly Regretted It

We’ve all traded or sold a car or truck and then regretted it. Sometimes that regret is as soon as the deal is done and sometimes it takes a week or month or year to realize that you just...

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1972 Chevrolet Crash Test Video: Watch A 1972 Chevrolet Vega Crash Head On Into A 1972 Chevrolet Impala For Science

Everyone thinks of a Vega as being super small, because it was a compact car back in the day, and that an Impala is super huge because at the time they really were and especially when compared to a...

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Build Your Own Vapor Blaster At Home With A Harbor Freight Blast Cabinet, Including a Full Parts List!

Vapor blasting, or wet blasting as many people call it, is a media or sand blasting method that uses water and sometimes an added detergent. The water and abrasives combine to clean and slightly...

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Dirthead Shed Tire Testing: Putting Avix Trailtek R/T Tires To The Test As Butter Jeep Takes On Tough Moab Trails

Dirthead Dave is back at it, with the newly LS Swapped and running Butter Jeep out on the trails in Moab for a bit of tire testing. Dave has been wheeling Jeeps and everything else under the sun for...

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WATCH FREE LIVE Streaming Drag Racing From Santa Pod RIGHT HERE! The Festival Of Power Is ON This Weekend!

This weekend at the famed Santa Pod Raceway in England, there’s a big drag race called the Festival of Power going on, and all the action is LIVE right here! This event is a pre-cursor to the...

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LIVE RACING ACTION | Sepang | GT World Challenge Asia powered by AWS 2026 Race 1 and 2

Here we go again! We’ve got GT World Challenge Racing going on live right here, and we dig road racing and who doesn’t love the World Challenge series? This weekends racing is coming to you live...

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2014 NHRA Winternationals: Sportsman Gallery – Stockers Through Injected Fuel, They’re Here!

(Photos by Jeff and Mike Burghardt) – We know you wanted to see more sportsman action photos from the 2014 NHRA Winternationals, so here they are! Shooters Mike and Jeff Burghardt took these...

This Gnarly 5th Gen Camaro Set To Take On All Comers In European Endurance Series – Only American Car In The Bunch

The Blancpain Endurance Series is a road racing circuit in Europe for GT cars. Companies like Ferrari, Porsche, Bentley, Aston Martin, McLaren, BMW, Audi, and others compete. Now there will be at...

A Guy Is Asking $205,000 For This Gasser On eBay And We Think It Actually May Be Worth It — UPDATED WITH PERIOD PHOTO!

Why would a 1933 Willys gasser possibly be worth a couple hundred grand when we have no proof of who owned it, no proof that it was actually raced, and just some crusty photos of the thing jammed...

BangShift Question Of The Day: If You Could Save One And Only One Of The Sinkhole Corvettes, Which Would You Save?

You knew this one was coming after the events of yesterday. In case you just got internet access last night and were unaware, eight Corvettes were swallowed by a large sinkhole inside the National...

2014 Winternationals Gallery: People and Pits Photos From The 2014 NHRA Winternationals

(Photos by Darr Hawthorne) – While the action at the drag races is always captured on the track, the story of any drag race is written in the pits. Like a great band that gains fame because of...

Safety on the job site is no laughing matter. Well, maybe a little – Shake Hands With Danger Scores High On Unintentional Comedy (Video)

(Words by Greg Rourke) – Shake Hands With Danger is an industrial safety film produced in 1980. It was directed by Herk Harvey, best known as the director of “Carnival Of Souls”, a...

Video Of Corvette Museum Sinkhole Released – Helicopter Drone Footage From Inside The Hole!

Here’s newly released video showing the sinkhole swallowing Corvettes at the National Corvette Museum in Bowling Green, Kentucky. This does not show all the cars going in, but a few. It looks...

Photo and Joke Update: Sinkhole Opens Up Inside National Corvette Museum – Swallows 8 Cars

  CLICK HERE FOR THE JUST RELEASED VIDEO OF THE CARS FALLING THROUGH THE FLOOR Multiple sources are reporting that a large sinkhole has opened up inside the National Corvette Museum in Bowling Green...

Bitchin’ Historic Drag Racing Photos From The Golden Age Of Action At Sanford, Maine

 (Photos from Sy Sidebotham Collection Via Bruce Wheeler) – (Editor’s note: Yesterday we ran an old drag racing movie from Sanford, Maine that was shot in the late 1950s. After seeing...

Mission Impossible: Nutting Picks Eleven Of The Best And Worst General Motors G-bodies

 Last night Brian called me up and we had the following conversation: Brian: “Nutting, it’s the middle of the week and your last two blog items have been weak sauce, so I’ve got a challenge...

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Gearhead Magazine: The Best Thing About the 1990s

I was digging through my record shelf the other day and was kind of surprised to find that I had a relatively complete collection of split singles that all came from the same place: Gearhead...

Effing Awesome Fail Video: A Massive Truck Tug of War Goes Very Very Wrong

Forgive us as we try to reconstruct the events leading up to this momentous video. There were cans, nay, gallons of Keystone beer chugged. There were minutes of angry Ford versus Chevy rumblings and...

Done: Toyota To Cease Manufacturing In Australia Come 2017 – Will Officially End Australia’s Auto Industry

 For a country as obsessed with cars and hot rods as Australia is, it seems unfathomable that no new ones will be made there when 2017 rolls around, but that is the reality the country faces now...

Watch This Front Wheel Drive Drag Car Suffer A Catastrophic Tire Failure On The Dyno!

 We love chassis dynos but we also fear them to some degree. Obviously we have run our projects on the dyno with varying levels of success, some destruction, and the constant thought in the back of...