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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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Daytona Craigslist Find: Bizarro V8 Astro Van

In honor of this weekend’s running of the Daytona 500 we’re going to take you on a tour of Daytona, Florida, in the only way we know how, through the eyes of Craigslist. If you’ve...

Scots Test Out Amphibious Bus, We’ll Watch From Shore

Human beings have the strange ability to continually develop new and fascinating ways of transportation. We also have the ability to create modes of transportation that could lead to the grisly...

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Kids Crash Car Into House, Church Deacon Issues Greatest Quote Ever

Imagine if your kids (yes we mean multiple kids) stole your car, loaded it up with friends, and then crashed the car into a house. You’d be totally pissed. You’re on the hook for the...

1,000hp Kenworth For Sale in Texas

We got tipped off to this wild beast of a 1979 Kenworth and our jaws hit the floor. We’ve heard of trucks sporting 500 and 600hp engines from Caterpillar and other heavy equipment makers, but a...

Mississippi Becomes the Thirty-Ninth State To Ban Nitrous In Street Cars

The Mississippi legislature recently passed the Trooper Steve Hood Act: The Nitrous Prohibition Act. The law is named after a state trooper who died in a high speed chase while in pursuit of a...

The Pinewood Derby is Serious Business

Since we were never in the Scouts, our knowledge of their traditional Pinewood Derby is limited. We know that the cars start out as wooden blocks and that each kid is supposed to fashion their own...

The Ultimate Stick Shift Training Vehicle, the Cummins Powered 2010 Ram 3500

The insane power levels that are available from diesel engines in trucks these days really make our mouths water. You can buy a pickup truck now that makes equivalent power to a medium-duty straight...

All the Force Girls Are on Fuel For the Winternationals

We’re normally pretty good with this type of information but we were pretty surprised to learn that all the Force girls—Ashley, Brittany, and Courtney (excluding John’s oldest...

Caption This Photo: A Bad Day At The Limo Driver’s Office

Imagine the noise that this thing made when it “ran aground.” We were forwarded this photo by our buddy Pete DeVita and it is simply too good not to share and get some great captions on....

C.A.R.B Advisory — Running Racing Fuel in Your Street Car is Illegal, Even If You Are Racing It

We were tipped off to an advisory bulletin released by the dreaded California Air Resource Board, the infamous C.A.R.B. This advisory, in typically convoluted government speak, seems to indicate that...

Finally, An Update in the Jeremy Mayfield Case

Finally! We’ve been waiting for months to hear some new stuff about the Jeremy Mayfield case against NASCAR. The actual trial is not set to begin until September, but the pre-trial wrangling is...

Ebay Find: The $200,000 1985 Camaro IROC

We didn’t screw up on the dollar amount in the title. This is a 1985 IROC Z28 sporting a TPI 305, an automatic transmission, 747 miles, and the signatures of nearly 100 actors, musicians, and...

Video Bonanza: Old Engines From the Gearhead Past

Engines are the life force of the gearhead world. We like to think about them in hot rods, trucks, and muscle cars, but there is a much broader scope that needs to be considered. Engines powered far...

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Caption This Photo: The Vanishing Tractor

We were sent this photo by BangShift.com member Mike Casella and we immediately thought that we needed to put it forth to be captioned. Is it a photo chop? Is it a whimsical country art project? Is...