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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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The F-Bomb Camaro in Fast and Furious 4

It’s been the worst kept secret that my F-Bomb Camaro is in the newest Fast and Furious movie, releasing April 4. But now that the second trailer is everywhere, clearly showing the car,...

CarDomain: Helpin’ Us Out!

You know about CarDomain.com? It’s an online car-guy community where you can create your own page that tells all about your project cars with photos and everything. It’s also a place...

Photo Gallery: 41 Shots of ’67-’69 Camaros

I’ve been guilty of dismissing first-gen Camaros as boring and overrated just because there are so many of them out there. I’ve been sucked into an attitude problem by the mass of letters...

Friday Excuse to Go Home Early and Drink: Eaton Lays Off 5,200

You know Eaton products even if you don’t know the corporation. The company is an OE supplier of all sorts of items, the most glorious of which are the superchargers found in many applications...

Freaky Shortened Duster Roadster on eBay

We were turned on to this at the blog over on CarDomain. It’s a ’71 Plymouth Duster on eBayMotors, and the seller claims that it’s a relic of drag racer Bill Stiles, who was given...

CraigsList Pick of the Week: ’68 Dodge Polara Wagon

We’ve got wagons on the brain since we’ll soon be taking a road trip to retrieve a ’65 LeMans longroof for a friend. Our own station wagons are all broken, so rather than fix one,...

Cool Old Press Photos: ’57 Ford Skyliner

You want to talk about capturing the public’s imagination? This car literally stopped people in their tracks. As it’s said in the release, the ’57 Ford Skyliner featured the...

Gearhead Destination: Eldora Speedway

We’re lucky in the US in the fact that we have literally hundreds of venues to go and watch our favorite gearhead activities. For many of us, that activity is racing in one of its myriad of...

Video of the Week: Formula One Warmup

All of us drag racing guys have been at the digs when the Fuel cars warm up. It’s awesome to run from trailer to trailer getting blasted in the face with nitro fumes. The sound of the big,...

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The Violation Game: Kit-Car Badness

OK guys, I have to admit that I am rushing out the door as I post this, so I’ll have to leave you to your own devices to explore all the true Violations seen in this week’s fine bit of...

New Cobra Jet Mustangs to Debut at the Winternationals

In just over two weeks, the new Ford Racing Cobra Jet will debut in competition at the NHRA Winternationals at Pomona. This is a bright spot in an otherwise dim period for Ford and all the domestic...

Vintage Race Car of the Week: The Bug

When we heard of Dick Kraft’s passing we scrapped out other plans for this space for the week and decided to honor his memory with a look back at his rude, crude, evil, and nasty Bug which is,...

Book Review: Busted Tractors and Rusty Knuckles

Busted Tractors and Rusty Knuckles by Roger Welsch is a quick moving and fun-reading book for any gearhead or hot rodder who has ever brought a piece of forlorn machinery back from the dead. Roger...

Sweet Turbocharged Caprice For Sale

We’re a bit put off by the $10,000 price tag, but man, we’re loving the hell out of this car. Talk about a sleeper: it’s a stock looking ’82 Chevy Caprice coupe with a...