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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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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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Did Project Farm Really Improve Gas Mileage by 22.4%! Don’t Get Scammed and Do What Works!

With average gas prices in the country in the $4.50 range today, it’s no wonder folks are trying to get better gas mileage right now. For many of the drivers across the country it is going to...

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FIA World Endurance Championships Highlights From TotalEnergies 6 Hours of SPA – Wheel To Wheel Racing Action

Round 2 of the FIA World Endurance Championships was held at SPA, aka Circuit of Spa-Francorchamps in Belgium, and did not disappoint. This is an epic race track, and the action here is always great,...

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Capturing Car Culture With Larry Chen: First Cameras Allowed in Toyota’s GR Factory: Minimal robots & More Humans

This is a cool episode of Capturing Car Culture if you are like us and love to see factory and how its made videos. I’ve been on several automotive assembly plant tours and can tell you that...

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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...

Hurst 50th Anniversary Viper Coming

Rather than focusing on shifters, the new owners of Hurst are capitalizing on the image and performance of the Hurst signature vehicles of the ’60s to create branded modern muscle. The first...

GM is Auctioning Vehicles Out of Its Heritage Center

Just like it reads: General Motors is having a fire sale, getting rid of some one-offs and automotive oddities from its collection. Below you will find a list of vehicles (this may or may not be the...