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One has a Flathead, One a Blown Olds, But Somehow These Traditional Hot Rods Share the Same Soul

There is just something about a traditional styled hot rod that just makes people smile. Even folks that wouldn’t describe themselves as traditional hot rod fans somehow find themselves drawn...

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From Dirty Dozen to Unreal Adventure 2026 Invited Subscriber: Pete Meyer and his 1963 Willys Wagon Made The Cut!

A few days ago we shared the Unreal Adventure Dirty Dozen, those 12 rigs that came from more than 100 submissions to be chosen to participate in Unreal Adventure 2026. Out of those 12, 5 will be...

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Retropower’s Austin Allegro Build Is Restomod Greatness. But is it Hiding a Secret? You Bet Your Ass It Is!

This here is something special. It’s not that an Austin Allegro is at the top of my british car list, but it is certainly up there! And when you see what has been done to make this what some...

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Building A 1968 Camaro Drift Car In Autoshop, and Then Taking It To The SEMA Show AND PRI! This is Something Special!

When the Los Angeles Career Center decides to do something, they go all in. Given the fact that Southern California is the epicenter of hot rodding and racing, it makes sense that a project like this...

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Jay Leno Takes a ride in ONE of the TWO 1914 Knox Model 46s still in Existence: This is a 496 CI Overhead-Valve Monster From the Nethercutt Collection!

Sometimes we forget just how bad ass humans were 100-140 years ago. I say this because the amount of invention and ingenuity that was happening in the world was just insane. I mean people came up...

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eBay Find: A Drag Racing Four-Wheeler That Will Probably Kill You

As it turns out we didn’t blow any appendages off or die during fireworks tomfoolery yesterday. Due to that fact, we’re bringing you a machine that will probably result in your own...

Event Coverage: Saturday Action from GoodGuys Des Moine 2010

Record numbers of participants and spectators filled the Iowa State Fairgrounds for this weekend’s GoodGuys Heartland Nationals in Des Moines Iowa, and we’ve got photos to prove it....

Event Coverage: 19th Good Guys Heartland Nationals Des Moines

With over 3000 cars showing up for Friday of the Good Guys 19th Heartland Nationals, and amazing 85 degree weather, we can’t wait to see what Saturday will bring. Our first impression of the...

Funny Video: How George Washington Kicked Ass in a Dodge Challenger

As we begin winding down for this Fourth of July holiday weekend, we were inspired to show you the recently minted web commercial for the Dodge Challenger. If you’ve not see it, George...

Dodge Viper Production Ends Today…For Two Years

The Dodge Viper as we know it is dead. In fact, by the time you read this, the last example of this iconic sports car has probably rolled off the assembly line at the Conner Avenue plant. Fiat,...

Killer New Product: The Nightmare Motorsports Stealth Nozzle — A Nitrous Breakthrough!

Scott Vanderschoor, the owner and chief lunatic behind Nightmare Motorsports (and a dedicated BangShifter!), has invented what we believe to be the coolest nitrous innovation to come along in some...

National Collector Car Appreciation Day Set for July 9th

The first ever Collector Car Appreciation day, as created by a US Senate Resolution, is set to go down on July 9, 2010. It’s definitely a day to get out on the road with your hot rod and...

The Paddock to Liquidate All Assets at July 29th Auction

The Paddock, a company that supplied parts for muscle cars of all varieties for more than 40 years has closed and will sell off all of it’s assets at a July 29th auction to be held at the Avon,...

Craigslist Find: A Nova Stock Car You May Love to Hate

We’ve decried our love of old school stock cars before, so it is no shock that our gear oil filled heat was aflutter when we laid eyes on this Nova located in Hiram, Georgia. The catch?...

Cool Video: A Crown Vic With a 5-Speed and Open Pipes Gets Thrashed

This video is cool as hell and makes us smile in the face of the bad news regarding the fact that Crown Vic production is going to stop in about a year. The video shows a guy thrashing on his late...

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Dumbass Alert: Florida Carjackers Steal Truck They Cannot Drive

School’s out so that means Florida carjacking season is on full tilt. We ran across a story from the Orlando Sentinel about two enterprising young thugs who set up a scheme to steal a vehicle,...

It Came From the Fab Shop: A Guided Tour of the Boeing 787 Dreamliner

(By Loren Krussow) – The relentless and expensive pursuit of a slightly-lower ET or a few more miles-per-hour in our cars could seem ironic, given that for the price of a commercial airline...

Doing it Wrong Video: How Not to Winch a Stuck Land Rover Out of the Muck

If you’ve never experienced the fun of trying to extract a truck out of deep mud, consider yourself lucky. It’s fun to laugh about hours after the job is done, but it can be pure misery....

Elderly Ohio Man Busted Stealing Corvettes

This story had us shaking our heads. A 71-year old Ohio man was busted by the coppers and charged with aiding and abetting the operation of an automobile chop shop, and interstate transportation of...