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Lone Star Throwdown 2026 Photo Coverage Continues Right Here! We’ve Got Hundreds More Awesome Truck Show Photos For You!

(Words and Photos by Chad Reynolds) I hit the Lone Star Throwdown in Conroe Texas this weekend and as usual was blown away by the turnout of great trucks. When I arrived at the just after it opened,...

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Why Are There So Many Coolant Colors? How did it get to THIS? Green Is Not The Only Color Anymore!

Why the heck are there so many colors of engine coolant nowadays? I mean was there really a problem with green? And if the colors matter so much, why can you buy coolant that will work with any of...

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Lone Star Throwdown 2026 Photo Coverage Starts Right Here! We’ve Got Hundreds Of Awesome Truck Show Photos For You To Check Out Right Here!

(Words and Photos by Chad Reynolds) I hit the Lone Star Throwdown in Conroe Texas this weekend and as usual was blown away by the turnout of great trucks. When I arrived at the just after it opened,...

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FREE LIVE NHRA Divisional Racing Action: Division 7 Lucas Oil Drag Racing At Firebird Raceway – Sunday

Free live drag racing starts here and continues all weekend long from the NHRA Regional at Firebird Raceway in Arizona. We’re talking all kinds of Sportsman Drag racing which means wheels up Stock...

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Have You Considered Getting One Of Those Harbor Freight Overhead Gantrys For Your Shop? Watch This.

I can’t remember the last time I was in a Harbor Freight and didn’t look at the gantry cranes longingly. Sure, I cherry picker is a great thing that we all need in the shop, but man these...

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2026 SCCA Hoosier Super Tour LIVESTREAM From Buttonwillow Raceway Park- Sunday Coverage LIVE, Saturday Replay

It’s time for the 9-race Hoosier Super Tour to start and that means racing at Buttonwillow Raceway Park in central California. There is a lot of qualifying and racing both today and tomorrow,...

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Hot Rod Hoarder Video: This MYSTERY V8 Austin Healey Hot Rod Has Sat ABANDONED Since the ’60s!

Tommy Lee Byrd, the Hot Rod Hoarder, is always finding killer hot rods and race cars in barns, fields, shops and wrecking yards and here is another one. This Austin Healey is really something...

The Right Line: This 1960s British Motorcycling Film Is Spectacular! Trials, Grand Prix, Moto-Cross, Isle of Man

Motorcycle racing is not exactly a burning passion of mine in the modern world, but I am fascinated by its history. This is especially true of the scene and the sport in Europe where it was and still...

An East Coasters Tour Of So Cal Hot Rodding History: Blair’s Speed Shop Tour Photos From Joe Grippo.

(Words and Photos by Joe Grippo) The next few stops on our East Coasters Tour of Southern California Hot Rod Shops took us to some legendary locations. First up on this day was Blairs Speed Shop in...

ABANDONED To RESTORED! Vice Grip Garage Is Rebuilding A Ford F100 : Part 5 – Derek FINISHED The Hotrod 300 Ford F100 Truck And It Is SO Good!

Part 5 of the Abandoned and Restored F100 build is right here! And if you missed the first four, we’ve got a link to it down below. This episode of the build is all about buttoning this thing up so...

History Video: This WWII Film Called Gunnery In The B-29 Is An Amazing Look At The Computerized Tech The Planes Used In The 1940s!

Perhaps someday we’ll run out of things to be amazed at about WWII but so far, we’re not even close. Take this film for example. You are going watch an animated training video made by the...

Happy Y-Block Day! We’re Celebrating The Lincoln 317 On This Fine March Day!

Like yesterday’s look at the little 316ci Pontiac, the 317ci Lincoln Y-Block is not exactly history’s most celebrated engine. The mill as introduced in 1952 and produced trough 1954. It...

This GMC V12 Powered Farmall Tractor Looks Killer, Sounds Mean

  The 702ci GMC V12 was a torque making, fuel chugging monster that certainly had its place in history and the fact that there are still a bunch of them floating around today certain speaks to...

The Mother, Jugs, and Speed 2WD Pulling Van Was Kind Of Awesome – Flip Top Body and Wheelies

Many of you out there remember the 1976 cult classic film Mother, Jugs, and Speed. With names like Raquel Welch, Bill Cosby, Larry Hagman, and others, it was packed with some star power for sure....

High Steel: This 1970s Documentary About Mohawks Building Manhattan Sky Scrapers Is Incredible

The year was 1916 and the event was the construction of the Hell Gate Bridge. It was this occasion that brought a significant number of Native Americans from the Mohawk Tribe to New York and gave...

Old School Video: This 1960 Plymouth Sales Film For The Valiant May As Well Come From Mars

Selling cars is not an easy job. It’s something that we could never do. Not because we’d hate to see them leave the lot, but because it’s one of those professions where you are only...

Jeepin’ Video: This Look Into The Jeep Culture In The 1950s and 1960s Is Absolutely Awesome

It is pretty safe to say that the Jeep brand has some of the most devoted followers in the automotive world. As it turns out, this is nothing new. The culture around the Jeep which was born in WWII...

Happy 3/16! Here’s Some Love For The Little Pontiac 316ci V8

This is another of those dates where most people think that there’s no gearhead connection but those people would be wrong! In 1956 and for one year only Pontiac offered a 316ci V8 engine. A...

Heavy, Haughty, and Downright Hilarious: Driving The 2024 Mercedes-Benz GLS63 AMG – The Cure For The Common EV

With all the noise, screaming, yelling, and histrionics that fill the airwaves these days about EVs and their impending blob-like growth to swallow the automotive marketplace, it’s good to get...

Listen To The Entire Big Sounds Of The Drags 2001 Album Here, Free! – Crank It Up!

Fun fact to know and share. The first piece of drag racing journalism I ever had published outside of the New England Dragway newspaper was a piece I wrote about pro mods for Nitronic Research. While...