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The Mangled Mercury Project: Part 5 – Shaping Transition Panels To Get The Body To Flow Into The Chopped Roof

We introduced the Mangled Mercury Project recently and shared the first cuts, plans, etc. for this soon to be cooler ride. We continued with more videos in the series, and if you missed those then...

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Can Nicky Bobby Make It Out Of The First Track On Sick Week 2025? 😅 Here Are His Day 1 Adventures!

Nick is no stranger to Drag and Drive events, and has finished and won his fair share, but Sick Week has been sort of a challenge for him. Last year he didn’t even make it out of the track on...

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OIL FILTER TECH: The Motor Oil Geek Is Going To Tell Us What Most People DON’T Know! Learn How Your Oil Filter Really Works!

It’s time for some more oil tech, but this time we’re talking about oil filters, and not the oil itself. If I had a quarter for every opinion I’ve heard about oil filters over the...

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Featured Product: American Powertrain’s Pro-Fit TKX Kit for 1982-93 Chevy/GMC S-10/S-15 Truck. Works with V8 or LS Swaps And Is Available Now!

S10 owners rejoice! We can all now have a Tremec TKX transmission thanks to this awesome kit from American Powertrain! This is one of their new Pro-Fit kits, which means it is specifically designed...

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King Of The Hammers Livestream 2025: DAY 4 YOKOHAMA EVERY MAN CHALLENGE QUALIFYING LIVE Right Here! Hammers Week Starts Now!

It’s Hammers Day 4 and that means qualifying the the Every Man Challenge. These are arguably the hardest working guys and gals at King of the Hammers, as they have to run this route on smaller...

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Just WAIT, Alex Taylor Has Big Plans 👀 Here Is Sick Week 2025 | Day 5 from Alex Taylor Racing

If you want to follow along on the adventures of Alex Taylor Racing during Sick Week 2025, we got you! Here’s Day 5 video from Alex and the crew as they push the ’55 and keep chugging away for a...

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The Violation Game, Bonus Edition!

Normally, The Violation Game goes live every Wednesday. But this just couldn’t wait. Sorry to do this to you, especially if you’re still a little queasy from a New Year’s hangover....

Former Car Craft Duster on CraigsList

I spotted this car advertised on CraigsList a month ago or more, and neither Matt King nor I could tell for sure if this was the car that he and I did a makeover on when we were both at Car Craft...

Let’s Play Name That Funny Car!

Andy, known as VTJUNK on our forums, sent us a link to this photo showing a bullet riddled, old, rusty truck in Saratoga Springs, New York. He also mentioned something about a Funny Car in his...

Mac Tools Dumps Kalitta

The Top Fuel operation owned by Connie Kalitta and driven by his nephew Doug Kalitta was dealt a body blow last Monday with the announcement that the car would no longer be sponsored by Mac Tools....

Phillip Eagan, Member of Tucker Design Team, Dies

We recently posted a note about the Tucker automobile that may have been a dirt track racer back in the early ’50s. It sparked some discussion among our readers about the short-lived car...

Friday’s Excuse Why I Went to Bed Early on New Year’s Eve

The blog entries have been behind schedule the past few days thanks to holidays and Freiburger’s flakiness. I thought I’d use all that as a reason to skip the traditional Friday Excuse to...

CraigsList Pick of the Week: Kaiser-Jeep M-715

Last week I was scheming on how to collect my M-715. About 8 years ago I sold my Army truck to a friend, then he sold it back to me a few months ago. I was employed and could pay for it back then,...

Pacergirl Makes the CarDomain Top 10

Many of you know Anna Beth Lamkin from Hot Rod Power Tour events. She’s the girl with the Plum Crazy AMC Pacer that she built along with her dad, and it was featured in Hot Rod and also Mopar...

Chrysler Thanks America…And Gets Roasted For It

Following President Bush’s agreement to loan money to the automakers, Chrysler posted this ad in newspapers starting just before Christmas. It seems that the “thank you” struck many...

Gearhead Destination: The Pomona Swap Meet

Around SoCal we take the Pomona Swap Meet pretty much for granted, even if we do have to hear that it’s “The West Coast’s Largest” in every radio spot. Thing is, it’s...

Video of the Week: Hell Drivers

Our first video for the New Year is an awesome two-part epic featuring the Hell Drivers at the ’64-’65 New York World’s Fair. The Hell Drivers thrill show had been around since the...

Fryblogger: My Very First Magazine Credit

A couple weeks ago, our Cool Old Press Photo featured a Jeep Forward-Control pickup, and in the process of bench racing about it, I introduced forum members to the site, FCConnection.com. In surfing...

The Violation Game: Phantom Donk

You thought we couldn’t top last week’s Violator, right? Wrong-o amigo! Witness the Phantom Donk, a ’72 Caprice convertible that’s been treated to…well, you can see how...

Vintage Race Car of the Week: The Chaparral 2J Sucker Car

The Chaparral 2J is one of those cars that raises an interesting question. Can a race car be considered a failure if it works too well? Read this story of a wildly innovative car and decide for...