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Derek is Taking A 1,600 Mile Journey To Trade One Of Vice Grip Garages More Popular Trucks For The Ride He Sold And Instantly Regretted It

We’ve all traded or sold a car or truck and then regretted it. Sometimes that regret is as soon as the deal is done and sometimes it takes a week or month or year to realize that you just...

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1972 Chevrolet Crash Test Video: Watch A 1972 Chevrolet Vega Crash Head On Into A 1972 Chevrolet Impala For Science

Everyone thinks of a Vega as being super small, because it was a compact car back in the day, and that an Impala is super huge because at the time they really were and especially when compared to a...

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Build Your Own Vapor Blaster At Home With A Harbor Freight Blast Cabinet, Including a Full Parts List!

Vapor blasting, or wet blasting as many people call it, is a media or sand blasting method that uses water and sometimes an added detergent. The water and abrasives combine to clean and slightly...

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Dirthead Shed Tire Testing: Putting Avix Trailtek R/T Tires To The Test As Butter Jeep Takes On Tough Moab Trails

Dirthead Dave is back at it, with the newly LS Swapped and running Butter Jeep out on the trails in Moab for a bit of tire testing. Dave has been wheeling Jeeps and everything else under the sun for...

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WATCH FREE LIVE Streaming Drag Racing From Santa Pod RIGHT HERE! The Festival Of Power Is ON This Weekend!

This weekend at the famed Santa Pod Raceway in England, there’s a big drag race called the Festival of Power going on, and all the action is LIVE right here! This event is a pre-cursor to the...

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LIVE RACING ACTION | Sepang | GT World Challenge Asia powered by AWS 2026 Race 1 and 2

Here we go again! We’ve got GT World Challenge Racing going on live right here, and we dig road racing and who doesn’t love the World Challenge series? This weekends racing is coming to you live...

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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...

Nitro Pro Mods: The Inside Scoop (part 1!)

Oh man, this is bad ass! We broke the news here about nitro-burning doorslammers, and it’s really going to happen. Header flames over the roof? You can bet on it! We placed a call to Tom...

Mansfield Motorsports Park Is Closing

Ohio’s Mansfield Motorsports Park, which formerly hosted a NASCAR truck race, has closed its doors and laid off all its employees. This would have been the track’s 50th year in operation....

SEMA Reports That Bling is on the Decline

According to a just-released SEMA News story, “The trend for wheel design or style appears to be becoming more simple and elegant. It seems that the way-out Bling-Bling look is past its peak....

A Sad Public Announcement: Fire is Not Good

Back in early December we talked on our message board about a fire that took place in Weymouth, Massachusetts. The fire destroyed some great old cars and in the process broke the spirit of their...