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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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Killer Video: Russian Truck Racing

This is the total embodiment of the old adage, “people will race anything.” We’re taking you on a trip to the Russian countryside to check out some awesome racing action, complete...

Bad Idea: Student Driver Wrecks Car During Lesson In Snow Storm, Instructor in Critical Condition

Sometimes you just have to shake your head at the decisions people make. A Haverhill, Massachusetts driving instructor, has been hospitalized in critical condition after a student he was instructing...

Shocker: Ford Sales Up 30% in December

Good news for fans of the Ford brand. Sales jumped 30% in December and magically, incentive spending dropped. This is a suprisingly good sign and another tell tale that the company has a strong and...

Video: Drunk Driver Drags a Coke Machine Behind His Car

We’re guessing that this came from New Years Eve, the red-letter day for drunk driving. Maybe the guy was on his way to find a pallet full of rum to go with his Coke.  Source: Failblog.org...

Will Schumacher Be An F1 Title Contender in 2010?

We’ve been keeping an eye on the press surrounding the return of Michael Schumacher to the Formula One mix in 2010. To say that this guy is treated like some sort of living god in the European...

Mustang Outsells Camaro for 2009

In the July 2009 issue, Car and Driver magazine announced that the Mustang had won the Pony Car wars in terms of performance, even with more than a hundred less horsepower then the Camaro. It looks...

Preview Video: Short Track Racing Reality Show Debuts on the History Channel This Sunday

Sunday night, January 10, the History Channel will debut “Madhouse,” a reality series based around the racing and personalities at Bowman Gray Stadium in Winston-Salem, North Carolina....

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Video: The Public Execution of a Detroit Diesel

This is a strange video, but one that’s morbidly entertaining. It shows a Detroit Diesel of unknown displacement on some sort of test stand in front of the crowd of people. Those people are...

RacingJunk Find: Neat 1965 Altered Wheelbase Plymouth

This killer 1965 altered-wheelbase Plymouth that we found for sale on RacingJunk.com seems to be a recreation as the seller does not mention any racing history nor does he cite any famous drivers in...

Shop-a-holic: We Tour The Bat Cave Body Shop

The Bat Cave. That legendary spot that Bruce Wayne parked the Batmobile in. No one knew where it was or how to find it. That pretty much sums up the situation with an awesome body shop operation we...

Ranking the Top 11 High Performance Fords From the Last Decade That You Have to Own

We Americans can’t seem to get enough of ranking lists. It must be in our collective cultural DNA. Even though a good case can be made that the decade of “the Noughties” does not...

Killer Nose Art and History From Velasco Enterprises

We pride ourselves on being not just car geeks, but also American history geeks. We have a special admiration for the men and women of the so called “Greatest Generation” who fought so...

Photo Caption Contest: Dude Under a Dually

We run across great gearhead photos all the time, so we’re going to start throwing some of them up to be captioned by you out there in readerland. We’ll lead off with this gem. To post a...

Great Read: An Interview with Drag Legend Tommy Ivo

Tommy Ivo is true racing royalty. One of the most famous drag racers in the history of the sport, his story is well known. In short, he was a child actor who for 20 years appeared on the stage, in...