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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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Bonneville Speed Week Coverage: We’ve Dried Out And Are Hauling Ass!

Bonneville RULES! IT RULES! Seriously, it rules and you need to be out here with us. All the cool kids are doing it, and this is one time not to listen to your mother about peer pressure. The salts...

Bonneville Speed Week Coverage: It’s Damp, But Fast, And We Have More Photos!

With rain showers blowing through the Bonneville Salt Flats on Friday night, it made for a soupy morning on parts of Long Course One, and also on parts of the return and access roads, but that...

Bonneville Speed Week 2012 Starts NOW!!! Friday Nugget Car Show Photos. Racing Photos Tomorrow.

Bonneville Speed Week 2012 officially starts in a few hours! We’ve got stories galore that we are following, including our buddy Lee Sicilio’s quest for a 300 mph record in his just...

What Specific Pony Car Should Be Sent To The Glue Factory?

Being Friday, we wanted to help you escape from doing work as long as possible. This question should allow your mind to wander a little bit. We want to know what specific pony car you would send to...

Rocket Racing Wheels Introduces Classic Bullet Style Lugs As Well As a Bullet Lug and Lock Kit

One of the coolest things about Rocket Racing Wheels is the fact that they are always working on new and cool stuff. Their new retro Bullet lugs nuts certainly fit that bill. In our mind, if you are...

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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