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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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History Lesson Video: This Look Back At The Lineage Of The Lincoln Continental Line Is Really Interesting

The Lincoln Continental is one of those nameplates that means many different things to many different people. My kids see a Mk VIII and think “hey, that’s kind of of a neat car!” I...

Carnage Replacement: Check Out The Replacement Of An Exploded Transfer Case In A Dodge Truck, Wild!

This is one of those videos where you see the problem and just are dying to know what happened. You’re about to watch an under-truck view of a transfer case replacement in a full size Dodge...

The Modified Class At A Vintage Tractor Pull Is Full Of The Most Awesome Homebuilt Hot Rods Ever – The Engines Rule!

While we love high level motorized competition because it displays the best that technology and budget has to offer, we cannot help but be head over heels in lust for classes where brains far...

Sub-Zero, The Twin Turbo LS S10, Digs Hard on the Street! – Suspension Upgrades, Full Exhaust, And Test Hits.

The SUB-ZERO S10 is back and ready to rock after a recent stint at the PRI Show in Indy where it was hanging out in the Melling booth. We told you in the last video that these guys weren’t just...

One Day Wash And Flip: Taking A Crusty Square Body GMC K15 And Cleaning It Up For A Quick Profit

At one point or another, every car guy I know has seen a car or truck and said to himself “I could clean that thing up and flip it in a weekend and make me $1000”. And I’d say that...

Built Diesel Mafia Highlights Their Favorite Tractor Pull FAILS, Carnage, Wild Rides and Mishaps of 2023

The other day, we shared another carnage and fails video from the tractor pulling world, and if you missed it we’ve got a link below. This week the gang over at Built Diesel Mafia have put...

Halfass Kustoms Newest Project: Starting Work On The 1949 GMC Roadster Pickup Custom

This project is one that Brent has had sitting around for some time and has just been waiting to get back onto it. It isn’t your average 1949 GMC, as it is mounted on a modified Caprice chassis...

PRI Show Photos: We Came, We Saw, And We Made A Dream List. Check Out The Cars And Parts Of PRI 2023

Here’s another batch of photos from the 2023 PRI Show and a link below in case you missed any of them. We’ve got more photos from the 2023 PRI Show in Indy. Man this place is full of epic stuff...

Daniel and the Crew at Powell Machine Show How To Rebuild Gen 3 HEMI Heads The Right Way. Valve Job, Surfacing, And Removing Broken Bolts

Powell Machine Inc. is known for building some pretty impressive engines, and for being experts in valve train and lifter technology, particularly in those classes of racing that require a flat...

Cool Historic Video: Watch Walter Cronkite Cruise A Sports Car, and Check Out Vintage In-Car Racing Action From Lime Rock!

Walter Cronkite was a car guy, no kidding. He was a sports car guy, having fallen in love with the small speedy cars while working as a front line war correspondent during WWII. Cronkite owned and...

King Of The 1980s Sleepers: The 1985 Ford LTD LX Had 5.0L Power Along With Cop Shocks, Tires, and Suspension

This is pretty awesome. The Ford LTD was a car owned by grandparents across America. It was not an exciting car, not a fast car, not a car that was designed to do anything but just shuttle people...

Not So Magnificent Seven: This Video Profiles Seven Of The Most Heartbreaking Racing Losses Ever

The awesome thing about racing is that it is an unending battle between man/woman and machine. Typically speaking, the best men and women get the best machines and then make with them what they will....

Retro Awesome Video: Watch Ms Bigfoot Crush Cars and Sled Pull Back In 1986

This is some great footage. Captured at an event in Missouri, we are going to watch the famed Ms. Bigfoot Ford Ranger smash some cars and hook to the pulling sled. The first thing you’ll notice...

FLYWHEEL VS FLEXPLATE-DOES A LIGHTWEIGHT FLYWHEEL ADD ANY POWER? 45 POUNDS VS 16 POUNDS-WHO WINS?

In a lot of racing, folks are real big on the weight of their flywheels because it effects how the engine accelerates. But on a lot of occasions I’ve seen folks go with the lightest flywheel...