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Drag and Drive Photos: Buckeye Skips 2026 – Day 1 Driver’s Meeting, Checkpoints, and Racing at Darana Raceway National Trail in Ohio

(Photos by Neal Sabo) We just finished sharing our lost Buckeye Skips drag and drive photos from 2025 the other day, but we’re excited about 2026! Yesterday was Day 1, when the driver’s...

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Our Final Gallery of Car Show Photos From Pueblo’s Biggest Father’s Day Event! The 2026 Father’s Day Car Show!

(Photos by Charles Wickam) Billed as the biggest Father’s Day event in Pueblo, the Father’s Day Car Show at the Pueblo Christian Center is in it’s 8th year and fills up fast on show...

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Shop Tour Video: United by Trucks Visits Pennsylvania’s Hart Fab to Get A Look At What Makes Them Tick. This is UBT ON TOUR

I love shop tours. Who doesn’t? Seeing a hot rod or custom shop building cars and trucks is always fun to see, and when they do it right it is really fun to check out all their fabrication,...

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STREET WEEK SWEDEN LIVE in the United States For The First Time! Get Your All Access Pass To Drag And Drive Greatness Right Here!

That’s right folks, we’ve been talking about it for a few weeks but now is the time to sign up for your livestream from Street Week Sweden! I’ll be there, announcing, interviewing,...

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Laid On Its Balls! How This Custom NBS Went From Show To Scrap And Back To Life And On The Road!

This truck has got some interesting history and has lived a rough life but has been brought back to life in a big way. After being built, this truck lit the show world on fire as it was laid out on...

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100 Hot Rod Roadsters. Three Days. One Incredible Adventure. This Road Trip Is Full of Collections, Cruises, And Memories Like None Other.

We love a good road trip, and doing one in a topless hot rod sounds like a wonderful idea. I’m a big fan of a good convertible, and so are these guys. In this video you’ll see 100 vintage...

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$76,000 On One Race? This Is Real BIG MONEY Grudge Racing And Kyle And The 1320 Crew Caught It All.

I’ve announced a lot of drag races over the years, and have called some single races worth some real money. But I also often joke about the fact that a lot of so-called big money grudge races...

Teeth of Steel: This 1942 British Film Profiling Mechanical Excavators, Cable Shovels, and More Rules

We have showed you a lot of patriotic films made in the USA during WWII. Well, we were not the only country cranking out the content. This film, made in England circa 1942 is called Teeth of Steel...

Legendary Race: Watch The TNT Monster Truck Challenge From Louisville 1990!

Stock car racers, drag racers, hell, any racer typically can call out some big moments and events in the sport that they love. Traditional monster truck racing fans can do the same thing. It’ a...

Awesome Video: Watch Sir Jackie Stewart Test Drive The 1978 Crop Of F1 Cars This Is So Cool

Now THIS is something that will literally never happen again. Imagine the premier F1 teams in the world each handing the keys to their new machines to a former three time world champ to drive and...

Video: 30 Years Ago The Stirling External Combustion Engine Was Tested By The Government – Where Did It Go?

We’ve heard of the Stirling External Combustion Engine before but we never knew that they were not only built but also used and tested by the US Government, specifically the Department of...

Is It Stupid To Fix Up A 300,000 Mile Vehicle? Or Are They Only Good For Parts? Project Farm Wants To Settle This!

We talk about junkyard LS engines all the time around here, and I’ve personally had LS powered vehicles with nearly 300,000 miles on them. Hell, one of them gave up it’s engine for one of...

Metal Shaping? Linear Stretching A Transmission Tunnel Transition. Math, Measuring, And Shaping Explained

There are several ways to shrink and stretch sheet metal but regardless of the methods the principles are the same with regards to what you need to do in order to get the metal to move in the...

IT’S GOING DOWN MORE! FINNEGAN IS SUSPENDING THE BED OF HIS SEMA 2024 OBS TRUCK PROJECT WITH ZIP TIES?

Well he’s back at it, but nothing can be simple with Finnegan. Well at least the suspension install will be as he’s working on the rear of his OBS truck this time. The rear needs lowering...

Summer Sale: The Holley Supercharged Summer Sales Event Is On! Free Shipping, Great Deals, And More!

Holley is having another sale, and this one is to celebrate summer. The Holley Supercharged Summer Sales Event has some great deals, plus FREE SHIPPING on any order over $149. That can be huge...

Polishing Turds Season 2: Part 7 – The Right Valve Job For Cody’s ProCharged 360 Cubic Inch Small Block, And How A Valve Job Effects Flow

In the seventh episode of this new Polishing Turds engine project, Pete is going to be performing the valve job on this little supercharged small-block so it will be able to make big consistent...

Heavy Metal Video: This Compilation Of 1990s Figure Eight Racing Wrecks From Sportsdrome Speedway Is Insane

I have done some reasonably terrifying things in cars. I have ridden with Ken Block in a rally car hurtling though the woods at crazy speeds, I have been caught in weather so bad that I thought it...

Awesome Video: This Promotional Film For The 1978 Schkee Can-Am Car Is Spectacular!

The most beautiful race car you’ve never heard of. This is the Schkee (pronounced Sha-kee) DB-1 and it was the brainchild of Doug Schultz and race car builder Bob McKee. The car name is a mashup of...

1970s Perfection: This Motorcycling Safety Film Stars Peter Fonda and Evel Knievel – So Good!

If you were someone who was going to make a film about motorcycling safety in the 1970s and your job was to cast it, who would you pick? Certainly your first choices would have to be cool, they would...

Watch The Massive Case 150 Steam Tractor Make 170hp and Over 5,000 lb-ft Of Torque On A Prony Brake Dyno

We have showed you video and told you about Kory Anderson’s incredible recreation of a Case 150 steam tractor. This $1-million dollar plus project brought back to life an extinct mastodon of a...