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Dakar Rally 2026 Coverage: Stage 11 Racing Action! Dakar Rally 2026 Is Nearly Complete! Will The Dunes Be Conquered?

Here comes Stage 11! How will it compare to the previous 10? Speed was key in Stage 10 because slowing down in the soft stuff will make a really tough stage even tougher. It may be getting closer and...

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Rocky Mountain Race Week Registration Opens January 16th and January 17th! Get Ready For One Of The Greatest Drag and Drives!

Rocky Mountain Race Week is back for 2026 and we’re excited to be heading to the mountains, crossing the plains, and having one kick ass time at some awesome race tracks. If you want to see...

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2026 Ford Mustang Dark Horse SC First Look: A Shelby GT500 in All but Name. Is This Ford’s Best Mustang?

It’s a new name, but familiar roots and power, which is why this may be one of the coolest modern Mustangs ever built. I know that is saying a lot since they recently highlighted the new...

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Minis, Minis, And More Minis: Here Is High Winding, Side by Side, Sideways, Mini Racing Action From Goodwood In England.

If you don’t dig old school Minis, then you are NOT my kind of people. These little machines are responsible for so much in motorsports today and are an absolute riot. They weigh 5 lbs, are...

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Budget Friendly 1971 Bumpside Ford F100 4WD Transformation! DIY Paint Revival And New Wheels And Tires!

It’s time for some love for this 1971 F100. It doesn’t need much to make a very big difference in how this thing looks, so in the video below it’s getting some slot mags, new tires,...

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King of the Hammers 2026 Is Coming! Watch Hammertown Come Together With This Streaming Camera From Johnson Valley.

That’s right, it’s January and that means that King of the Hammers is coming! King of the Hammers 2026 officially starts on January 22nd and will continue for more than two weeks. It...

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Web Site of the Week: The Best Christmas Gifts Ever

It’s been our job for years to fiddle with cars. You make think we use nothing but free parts, but we’ve bought plenty of stuff from the best and the worst of ’em. It’s a...

Video of the Week: Our Christmas Wish

This week we take you to the Green Mountain state via YouTube. We’re going to a place that we’ve actually been to and shot a load of video at for “the site of which we do not...

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Mopar Freakshow: ’62 Dart Stretch Limo

Dave Wallace pointed us toward this thing in an e-mail correspondence last week and now is the perfect time to spring it on you. Its eBay auction has ended, but you can still view the goodness that...

Vintage Race Car of the Week: Smokey’s Pod Car

It was only matter of time before one of Smokey Yunick’s creations found its way to this section of our blog. It wasn’t any easy choice on which way to go for the first one, either. An...

Book Review: Quarter-Mile Chaos

We’re certainly down to the wire for Christmas gifts, both the stuff you’re shopping for and the stuff you’re asking for. With that said, there’s still time for cool stuff and...

For Sale: 5-Second Pro Mod Camaro! Makes a Great Christmas Gift!

Jim Halsey has the deal of the century for you! Jim is selling his ’68 Camaro Pro Mod, the first nitrous doorslammer to run the quarter mile in less than 6 seconds, for the low, low price of...

Freiburger’s Pic of the Week: The Biz

This is a painful story. Here you see my ’62 Chevy Biscayne near the end of its tenure with my name on the pink. I’d bought the car a few years prior with the full intention of running it...

The Top 11 Greatest Influencers of Hot Rodding

This week’s entry is a bit more philosophical than our past Top 11 lists. We thought about the things that really made the car hobby what it is today, and put quite a bit of effort into ranking...

eBay Pick of the Week: Motor Wheel Spyders

One of the items in my eBay saved searches is Motor Wheel Spyder mags. These wheels, built from roughly ’68 to ’74, are becoming increasingly hard to come by, especially for decent...

Monday Time Killer: Ghost Tracks

One of our users blew our cover. We were going to direct you to 60sFunnyCars.com and 70sFunny Cars.com as this week’s Time Killer, but PatricksDad jumped us by linking those on a message-board...

Gallery: Vintage Photos of Freiburger’s Super Bee

As many of you know, a few months ago Chad and I had to close down the old website that used to employ us and also clear out the shop where we’d been working. Aside from the drama of going out...

Motorized Freak of the Week: NASA’s Crawler-Transporter

Make no mistake about it: this is the slowest vehicle that will ever be featured here. It’s probably the least fuel efficient as well, but we don’t really give a crap about that. This...

Nitro Pro Mods: The Inside Scoop (part 2)

Ok, now for the payoff pitch on the Nitro Prom Mods dirt that we first spilled yesterday. We spoke with Joe Monden, the man who is doing the final assembly on the first of the injected Pro Mods at...

Craigslist Pick of the Week: Vintage Quarter Midget!

The other day I was checking out the Feb. ’58 issue of Hot Rod that features one of the coolest covers of all time with almost no blurbs and an image of a bunch of kids lined up to race in...