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FREE LIVE DRAG AND DRIVE COVERAGE! Rocky Mountain Race Week 2026 Starts Today And Will Hit The Mountains Once Again!!

It’s go time for Rocky Mountain Race Week 2026 and we’ll be live each race day afternoon and into the night so you can follow all the great racing action. We’ll start LIVE at SRCA Dragstrip...

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Rocky Mountain Race Week 2026 Day Two Video | Great Bend, KS to Kearney, NE | Kearney Raceway Park

Here’s the Rocky Mountain Race Week 2026 Day Two video and boy is it a fun one. We’re talking on the road, on the track and more! It’s go time for Rocky Mountain Race Week 2026 and...

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The $5,000 LS Swap Challenge: Is a Budget LS swap Still Possible? We’ll Find Out, as Hagerty is Building the Ultimate Sleeper Barn Find!

The $250 LS engine. It sparked a movement that has out paced even the experts biggest expectations, and has created an entire group of new companies in the automotive aftermarket. On top of that, it...

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Touring Car Icons Reunited for the Heritage Touring Cup Round 1 at the Spa Classic by Peter Auto Le Mans Classic

Every spring, the Spa-Francorchamps Circuit becomes what they call “a living theater of automotive history.”Classic cars, classic engines, and some of the finest historic and vintage car...

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Turning This Old Farm Truck into a Killer Street Machine Using Scrapyard Ford Parts! Bumpside Ford Goodness Part 3!

It’s alive! Here’s the Part 3 video in the series, and that means actual driving! Yes, this thing is going down the road in this one and showing off all the bits underneath. I love donor...

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FJ40 Land Cruiser Custom Fabrication: Sheet Metal Madness – The FJ Gets A Glove Box, Floor Mods And Doghouse Fab

Shannon is back at the fab work on the FJ40, with the roof and dash coming along, as well as the pedals and steering in a second video. There is a lot more going on as well, but that’s the fab...

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2024’s Weirdest Impact Wrench Plus A New Torque Test Channel Impact Gun Record!

If you need serious impact gun power for working on big trucks, tractors, and equipment, then these two beasts right here just might be the ones for you. And this Ingersoll Rand has got some weird...

Greg Heinrich’s 1967 Camaro: A Speed Demon in White

In the heart of Hesperia, California, a rust-covered gem lay waiting to be transformed into a roaring street racing legend. Rodger of Ironworks Speed and Kustom had just acquired the skeleton of a...

Who Makes The Best Heat Gun? Will Harbor Freight Dominate? Let’s Find Out Which One Is Right For Your Shop!

If you haven’t added a high performance heat gun to your arsenal of tools, you are  missing out. If you only use it to properly heat shrink tubing, you are leaving a lot on the table but...

Historical Video: Sinking Ships, Making Steel, Slogging Through The Mud – WWII Footage

This is one of those videos that shows the incredible size and scope of what WWII was by the time it reached its peak at the end of the first half of the 1940s. The film you are going to see was...

American Tough: Watch This Old Cop-Spec Crown Vic Handle Moab Off-Roading

If there is one thing that the internet has exposed us to over the last few decades it is video proof of stories that no one in their right mind would have ever believed before. This is one of those...

Naked and Unafraid: Check Out This Video of Guys Shaking Down A Car Sans Body At George Ray’s In The 1980s

This right here is awesome. Imagine taking a drag car stripped of every unnecessary thing outside of the engine, chassis, transmission, axles, and wheels and placing it on a drag strip that has been...

Happy 3/18 – Let’s Celebrate The Chrysler 318, The 318 Poly, and One Other 318ci Mill You May Not Think About

Ah yes, 3/18 the day we look back at the venerable 318ci Chrysler small block, the 318ci Chrysler Polyspheric, and a diesel engine that is not necessarily known for its displacement but more for the...

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...