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1,800 Miles Home! Will This Classic Ford Mustang RUN AND DRIVE From Arizona To Tennessee? Vice Grip Garage Part 2

We shared Part 1 of this whole Mustang II adventure last week and now it’s time for Part 2. Will it actually run and drive and make it all the way from Arizona to Tennessee? Watch to find out....

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Gassers At Shadyside! Southeast Gassers Association 2024 | A/Gas Eliminations | Shadyside Dragway

The Southeast Gassers Association puts on some of the most fun drag racing in the world. It’s an awesome series with old school gassers being driven like God intended and they certainly know how to...

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Vintage Drag Car Feature: This TIME CAPSULE 1963 Corvette Drag Car with De-Stroked Lingenfelter Small Block Is AWESOME!

Tommy Lee Byrd, the Hot Rod Hoarder, is always finding super rad rides to highlight and feature in his videos and this one here is no exception. With a destroked Lingenfelter built small-block under...

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The Stanceworks Honda-Swapped Ferrari RE-BUILD Begins Now! He Blew It Up And Now It’s Time For Improvements

The K24 Ferrari… This evil bastard launched the rods out of it on the back stretch at Buttonwillow not long ago, and in the previous video we learned why. In this video there is a rebuild about...

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Vice Grip Garage ALMOST Won A Helicopter At The Freedom 500!.. And Then He Accidentally Destroyed His Friends Turbo Pacer

The Freedom 500 is one awesome race, but that’s not just because the action is fun to watch. This race is something special because the people racing in it are some of your favorite YouTubers...

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Texas Street CASH DAYS Action From 1320Video: Huge Wheelies, Close Calls, & MORE! Plus Win A Corvette!

Texas street racing royalty, and some new characters alike, were on hand for the Cash Days street racing that was going down during the dark hours after TX2K at the Texas Motorplex. It was the first...

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Roadside Find: A Bitchin’ 1970s Dodge Power Wagon Fire Truck – Front Mounted Pump Goodness!

I stopped by Jon Sandahl’s Tube Chassis Designz chassis shop yesterday to have some stuff welded for Buford’s suspension resurrection and on the way there, my eye caught what looked to be...

Barbara Nesbitt Suing NMCA, NHRA, Skinny Kid Race Cars, and Others In Conjunction With Injuries Sustained in 2010 Incident

(Photo by CompetitionPlus.com) – Former NMCA racer Barbara Nesbitt is suing a host of people in conjunction with injuries she sustained during a 2010 incident at zMax Raceway. In the incident,...

Event Gallery: The 2012 Camaro5 Fest – Mustangs Need Not Apply!

(Words and Photos by Jeff Lee) – For those who might not know, the Camaro 5 Fest is the annual get together of 5th generation camaro owners and fans from the uber popular website...

Watch a Turbocharger Violently Explode During a Dyno Pull – Flying Sharpnel! Duck and Cover!

With more and more turbochargers being bolted onto drag cars, street machines, hot rods, trucks, and in this case, old school import cars, there are going to be more and more videos like this hitting...

Video: The Story of a Bitchin’ 1959 Beetle That’s 100% BS Approved – Stance Perfection!

The boys from Holley are back with another neat video featuring a cool car from the 2012 Holley NHRA National Hot Rod Reunion. This time they trained their cameras on a 1959 Beetle that is done in a...

Racing Junk Find: A Bad Ass, Street Legal, Chevy Desert Pre-Runner Truck With Decorated Baja History

In an earlier life, the truck you are looking at won the 1987 SCORE Baja 500. Back then it was run as a bruising Class 8 truck and was the featured star of ABC’s coverage of the 1987 Baja 1,000...

Cruise Gallery: The Concert Cruise-In At Fontanel Mansion – Nashville’s Newest and Coolest Weekly Cruise

(Photos by Jeff Lee) – Most cruise nights are held in a parking lot or some other non-nondescript spot. While that is good for physically parking cars, it doesn’t really add at lot to...

$200 Hauler Project Update: Oh What A Difference Some LMC Truck Billet, Grille, and Lower Valance Make!

When we first started the $200 Hauler Project, we knew right away that the mildly bashed grille and completely tweaked rear bumper were going to have to go. We also knew that LMC Truck was the place...

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eBay Find: An Entire Collection of Dukes of Hazzard Replica Vehicles – Buy ‘Em All!

We normally limit ourselves to one eBay find per week, but this collection of replica vehicles from the Dukes of Hazzard is too good not to share. Outside of the typical General Lee, there’s...

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Video: Dodge to Leave NASCAR At Close Of 2012 Season – Move Largely Symbolic But Speaks To Larger NASCAR Issues

While Dodge’s announcement that it is leaving NASCAR at the end of 2012 may not have major reverberations on the track because they only have one organization left actually running their cars,...

Watch A Miata Take Out A Third Gen Firebird During Last Weekend’s Spectator Drags At Seekonk Speedway

Last week we gave you a video bonanza filled with random videos of crashes during “spectator drags” at small circle tracks. Well, “spectator drags” are the internet’s...

eBay Find: The Coolest And Most Weirdly Factory Optioned 1974 Grand Am Ever – 400/4-Speed/4-Door?!

We can’t take credit for finding this one. That goes to Todd Ryden, our pal at In Gear Media. Todd shot us a note when he saw this ad and we fell into the same spell he did while looking at...

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Classic Iron Junkyard Gallery: Walk The Aisles of a Cool Junkyard in Pasadena, Texas With Lots of Neat Old Junk!

(Words and photos by Charles Wickam) – With the dog days of summer holding the gulf coast in a firm headlock, car shows during these months are pretty much nonexistent. So with a need to go...

Action Video: A Look Back at the 2012 Goodguys Sponsor Challenge With Hurst Shifters, the No Limit Truck, and…Chad?!

Like we told you about earlier today, the 2012 Goodguys PPG Nationals in Columbus, Ohio played host 2012 to the Sponsor Shootout. The dudes and dudettes at Hurst made a cool video showing the action...