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Dakar Rally 2026 Coverage: Rest Day Action! Drivers, Navigators, And Race Machines Get A Break. The Crews, Not So Much!

It’s Rest Day at Dakar 2026, but that doesn’t mean that everyone is just sitting around. In the video below you’ll see where everyone stands now as drivers and crew, along with...

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King of the Hammers 2026 Is Coming! Watch Hammertown Come Together With This Streaming Camera From Johnson Valley.

That’s right, it’s January and that means that King of the Hammers is coming! King of the Hammers 2026 officially starts on January 22nd and will continue for more than two weeks. It...

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Steve Magnante Junkyard Crawl: Here’s A Race Hemi Coronet Ready To Come Alive. This Post Car Could Be Epic!

Steve Magnante is back at it, at Backyard Auto in New Hampshire to check out another great muscle car shell. This is a 1965 Dodge Coronet 440, and while it didn’t come with a Hemi under the...

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Bodywork 101: Fixing BAD Panel Gaps! Tightening Up Your Gaps Can Make A HUGE Difference In Your Finished Project

There are a lot of differences between your average body shop paint and bodywork and something that someone like Kevin Tetz would do for a high end project. Sometimes projects don’t require, or...

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Cutting Up A Real 1932 Ford Frame? Iron Trap Garage Is Using Parts From This One To Fix Another!

When the guys at Iron Trap Garage pick up a new project, they sometimes find themselves with stuff that most people wouldn’t try to save. They have an eye for what something can become and,...

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Dakar Rally 2026 Coverage: Stage 6 Rally Racing Action! The Saudi Desert Is Fighting Back In This 48th Running of the Dakar Rally!

We’ve been sharing every day’s coverage from the 2026 Dakar Rally and today is no different. Watch the video to see all the Stage 6 action, highlights, and more below! Bodies and vehicles...

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All Of Our Street Rod Nationals Kalamazoo Photos Right Here: Check Out All The Hot Rods, Customs, Trucks, Street Machines, And More, Plus A Link To Anything You Missed!

Here’s our final gallery AND a link to all the rest! (Photos by Jim Hrody) Thanks to Jim, we’ve got photos from the NSRA Street Rod Nationals in Kalamazoo and they are of course some of...

Here’s Our Final Gallery Of Street Machine Nationals Photos: Hot Rods, Customs, Trucks And Street Machines Galore!

Here’s our final gallery of photos from the Street Machine Nationals, and if you missed any of our previous photos there is a link below that will take you to all of them as well. (Words and Photos...

MORE SEMA Show 2023 Photo Coverage: Cars, Trucks, Customs, Hot Rods, Parts, And More From The SEMA Show In Las Vegas

Here’s another photo gallery from the SEMA Show in Las Vegas! If you missed the previous photos, you can use the link below to check them out. The 2023 SEMA Show was another example of the...

Drag Racing Photos: Our Final Gallery Of Photos From The PDRA Carolina Nationals Is Right Here.

Here’s our final gallery of photos from the season ending Carolina Nationals in Darlington. If you missed our previous PDRA Photos, use the link below! We have to thank David Whealon for his...

PRI Show Photos: Here’s The Last Gallery Of Photos From The PRI Show, Plus A Link To All The Rest If You Missed Any!

Here’s our last batch of photos from the 2023 PRI Show and a link below in case you missed any of them. We’ve got more photos from the 2023 PRI Show in Indy. Man this place is full of epic stuff...

OPTIMA’s Ultimate Street Car Invitational- 2023 Edition: Bob Sobey’s Nissan GT-R successfully defends its title

(Words by Jim McIlvaine, Photos by Kaleb Kelley & Royce Rumsey) Bob Sobey’s Nissan GT-R became the third vehicle to successfully mount a title defense in the 16-year history of the OPTIMA...

This Is What It Really Takes To Paint A Race Car! Curry Does Bodywork And Paint On Topol’s Tombstone Camaro After Switching To Big Tires For No Prep Kings!

We’ve shared a few Paint by Curry videos before, where this master puts down some amazing candies, metallics, carbon clears, and more on bad ass race cars. Located in Alabama, he’s a go...

Building a PERFECT METAL SHAPING Station. EASY 2 SET UP. Customizable for YOUR TOOLS With Karl Fisher From Make It Kustom!

In his most recent videos, Karl has been showing how to build your own shrinking and stretching tools using mostly scrap and they have been awesome. When you combine them with all the other tools and...

Dirthead Dave Shows Off Tow Hardcore Off-Road Rigs That Aren’t Jeeps. Check Out This Awesome Isuzu Amigo And Suzuki Samurai!

Dirthead Dave went on a cool wheeling trip while most everyone else was out shopping on Black Friday, and road with a buddy in an awesome little Suzuki Samurai. Along the trip were a couple other...

Dissecting a Tesla Cybertruck! Underbody & Wheels Off Chassis Inspection and Walkthrough, First Look At This Weird Machine

From the very first moment that anyone saw the design renderings for the Tesla Cybertruck, everyone scratched their head in wonderment. After all, this thing looks like you gave a pencil to a 5 year...

Nobody’s Show Is Rescuing an abandoned 1958 Chevy Impala Project! 348, 3 Deuces, P/S, P/B, Wonderbar! It’s a 33,000 mile car!

On multiple occasions we’ve talked about how getting an unfinished project is sometimes the best way to get the car of your dreams and on a budget. But it also sometimes has added risk if you...

Chained Lightning: Watch This Naked Altered Make A Chassis Dyno Pull With A Roaring 434ci Small Block Ford Engine

We always find it cool when a bare chassis style race car is on the chassis dyno. There’s just something about being able to watch the slicks grow, watch the whole machine strain against the...

Nailed It: The 1993 Dodge Intrepid Was A Car The Company Desperately Needed To Work And It Did

I’m not saying I was a total weirdo at age 13 but one of the car posters I had on my wall was of a Dodge Intrepid. Why? These things were a radical departure from the norm of what was on the...

Small Tire Monster Truck Video: Back In 1991 The Bigfoot Crew Bolted 48-Inch Tires On As An Experiment – Interesting

If you follow the sport of drag racing at all you know that for the last decade or so, the biggest trend has been toward “small tire” drag racing. Typically this means we’re talking...