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Punish the Pad New Zealand Burnout Competition Video: Destroying Tires, Lighting Fires, and Entertaining The Masses!

Australians get all the credit for big burnout competitions, but their neighbors the Kiwis also know what they are doing when it comes to creating big tire smoke. With huge “Australian...

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Land Speed Racers Chasing Speed at El Mirage: Here Are The 2025 Southern California Timing Association Season Highlights!

While Bonneville gets the most fame and attention, and is the most iconic land speed racing location on earth, the dry lake bed at El Mirage is home to land speed racing and arguably the toughest...

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Why Is Torx So Bad And So Good At The Same Time? Testing Torx Bits And Explaining How They REALLY Work.

Anyone that works on cars and trucks is familiar with Torx fasteners and bits, as are anyone who’s done any DIY, deck, fence, or construction projects in recent years. There are some big...

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FJ40 Land Cruiser Custom Fabrication: Custom Fender Flares Built For Punishment! Truly Custom Fabrication.

Shannon is back at the fab work on the FJ40, with the rear bumper done, it’s time for fender flares. But these aren’t just any flares, as they will tie into the bumper out back for...

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Marketplace Find: This Survivor 1985 Chevrolet Suburban 2500 Is Big Block Powered Gold! Big Block, TH400, 3.73, And 68K miles!

Wow what a score this one will be for someone. With less than 70,000 miles on the odometer, and interior and paint that look near mint, this big block 2500 Suburban will make a great family cruiser...

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My Best BARN FIND Yet? Chip Foose Explores A Hot Rodders Collection And Finds One He Just Can’t Believe.

Chip Foose is no stranger to cool cars, whether in the project stage or finished or anywhere in between. But what you might not think about is that Chip is a hot rodder just like the rest of us and...

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Monday Time Killer: Vintage Photos of Dealerships and Manufacturing Plants

There’s no accounting for automotive fascinations. Just when we thought that our tractor love was out there, we found a web site for people who just like Mopar cars built in 1970, only at the...

Carnage Video: Street Race Wreck, Camaro Rolls Over

BangShift member Kyle from 1320Video.com just keeps hooking us up with wild video. This time it’s a street race where a clean and fast ’68 Camaro ends up rolling over at the top end. The...

The Parting Shift: An 11-Second Pass in a 30,000-Mile Hemi GTX

We realize that many of you have checked out for Thanksgiving weekend, but that won’t stop us from posting our now-traditional, week-ending Parting Shift item. This time it’s from...

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Video: Parking Brake Fail

This video is direct from FailBlog.org, and it’s pretty much self-explanatory. It might play better as a talkie, but you won’t miss the plot.    

Abandoned Drag Strip History: Hot Rod Clubs and Tracks of Virginia

It seems like the awesome vintage drag racing photos and stories are pouring in from all over the place lately. Our latest find is from a web site that’s an online exhibition of the Blue Ridge...

Wreckin’ Rivalries Are Part of the NASCAR Scene

Personal rivalries in racing have been around since the dawn of the sport. NASCAR has a bunch of individual rivalries that, every once in a while, get ugly. That being said, local short track...

New Wrangling in the Jeremy Mayfield Case: Former Lawyer Seeks Almost 400K

Jeremy Mayfield’s former lawyer, Bill Diehl, has filed court paperwork seeking to recoup nearly $400,000 in unpaid legal fees. This must have been something Mayfield saw coming as he just held...

Craigslist Pick: Big Ass Motor with Big Ass Blower

We’ll admit right off the bat that this CraigsList motor for sale is not all that impressive of a horsepower maker. That sounds completely idiotic when we tell you that it makes 1,200...

Thanksgiving Day Tire Roast: Fire Burnout Video!

Mitch King is a name that should be familiar with any nitro-soaked drag racing fan. The man from Galveston, Texas, who owns a candy business, has a Fuel Altered, a couple of Top Fuel dragsters and a...

Thanksgiving Day Tire Roast: Insane Aussie Burnout with Unintentional Fire

Aussies seem to take their burnout contests seriously. We’ve shown you videos of guys rolling junk over, tires blowing to smithereens, and engines exploding during some of these competitions....

The Last Pontiac Rolls Off an American Assembly Line

Well, that’s the end of that. At 12:45 local time yesterday, the very last American-made Pontiac left an assembly line in Orion Township, Michigan. There was zero fanfare for the white, fleet...

1967 Mustang Falls to Third Place in the East African Safari Classic Rally

On the 24th we showed you the 1967 Mustang that was leading the 2009 East African Safari Classic, a rally event for cars 1974 and older. The news from yesterday (the 26th) is that the Mustang has had...

Video: An Incredible Save on the Sand Dunes

This one is oooold, but still entertaining. It appears to come from the Middle East. We know in Dubai they call stuff like this “dune bashing.” Over here we’d call it hill climbing....

The Mother Lode of Online Automotive Calculators

We were just trying to do some compression ratio math and came across the Wallace Racing site that has more car-related online calculators than we’ve ever seen in one place. Hell, we...