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FREE LIVE DRAG AND DRIVE COVERAGE! Rocky Mountain Race Week 2026 Starts Today And Will Hit The Mountains Once Again!!

It’s go time for Rocky Mountain Race Week 2026 and we’ll be live each race day afternoon and into the night so you can follow all the great racing action. We’ll start LIVE at SRCA Dragstrip...

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Rocky Mountain Race Week 2026 Day Two Video | Great Bend, KS to Kearney, NE | Kearney Raceway Park

Here’s the Rocky Mountain Race Week 2026 Day Two video and boy is it a fun one. We’re talking on the road, on the track and more! It’s go time for Rocky Mountain Race Week 2026 and...

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The $5,000 LS Swap Challenge: Is a Budget LS swap Still Possible? We’ll Find Out, as Hagerty is Building the Ultimate Sleeper Barn Find!

The $250 LS engine. It sparked a movement that has out paced even the experts biggest expectations, and has created an entire group of new companies in the automotive aftermarket. On top of that, it...

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Touring Car Icons Reunited for the Heritage Touring Cup Round 1 at the Spa Classic by Peter Auto Le Mans Classic

Every spring, the Spa-Francorchamps Circuit becomes what they call “a living theater of automotive history.”Classic cars, classic engines, and some of the finest historic and vintage car...

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Turning This Old Farm Truck into a Killer Street Machine Using Scrapyard Ford Parts! Bumpside Ford Goodness Part 3!

It’s alive! Here’s the Part 3 video in the series, and that means actual driving! Yes, this thing is going down the road in this one and showing off all the bits underneath. I love donor...

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FJ40 Land Cruiser Custom Fabrication: Sheet Metal Madness – The FJ Gets A Glove Box, Floor Mods And Doghouse Fab

Shannon is back at the fab work on the FJ40, with the roof and dash coming along, as well as the pedals and steering in a second video. There is a lot more going on as well, but that’s the fab...

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Fiberglass How-To: Using Foam And Glass To Form A Custom Dash For A 1967 C10 Pickup. Shaping And Glassing!

Here is the third video in this cool custom dash series. I happened upon this video series the other day and knew I had to share it. After recently posting a video of Brent at Halfass Kustoms doing a...

Are Cheap Drill Bits Just Junk? Who Makes The Best Drill Bit Set? $11 vs $200 Drill Bit Sets? Let’s Settle This!

Drill bits are one of those things that people either seem to spend no money on or all the money. I know I’m guilty of buying cheap drill bits and then when I buy that one specialty size, in a...

The Land Rocket That Never Was: Could Donald Campbell’s Bluebird Mach 1.1 Have Broken The Sound Barrier?

There was nothing easy about being a record setter in the 1960s and Donald Campbell’s life proved that. Driven by a near  obsession to not only match his famous father Malcom but to exceed him...

Hear The Legend Speak: This Awesome 1980s Profile Of Art Arfons Contains A Great Interview of The Man Himself

There are few people that I idolize in the cannon of hot rodding history but Art Arfons is one of them. I have written lots about him, I have made a long, long episode of my Dork-O-Motive podcast...

Awesome Video: The History of Super Modifieds Is Incredible And Flat Out Awesome

We love Super Modifieds around here and we have posted saying that for years. You can catch them racing on the regular in the Northeastern quadrant of the country during normal racing years and they...

Historic Drag Racing Video: NY National Drag Strip Action Circa 1969 – 4 Wide, Jungle Jim and More!

In the realm of old school drag racing videos this footage from the summer of ’69 at the now dead NY National Drag Strip on Long Island is in the top 1%. The video itself is crisp and clear...

New Years No Prep Photos From Maple Grove: Our Final No Prep Racing Gallery From Pennsylvania

We’ve got our fifth, and final, batch of photos from the New Year’s No-Prep at The Grove, and want to thank Joe Grippo as always. If you missed any of the previous photos, we’ve got a link...

Finnegan Is Building A 3,000 Horsepower LS Engine! Exclusive Billet Engine Build For a Mystery Project Car!

Finnegan is back at it, this time with another engine build that is something extreme and exciting. I mean who wouldn’t be excited by a billet aluminum LS engine, let alone one that is going to...

Chemical Dipping a Rare 1969-1/2 Plymouth Roadrunner A12. Check Out How Dipping Works!

If you have ever done a full build on a car that required stripping the paint in order to prep for replacement panels, or just a complete paint and body restoration, then you know that there are few...

Halfass Kustoms 1949 GMC Roadster Pickup Custom: Building A One-Off Custom Bed For This Pickup.

Now that the chassis has been shortened up to get the proportions right, it’s time for Brent to start focusing on the bed. He wants something completely different than stock, so he’s...

DIRT CHEAP, EBAY, AMAZON, SLOPPY LS CAM TEST…SLOPPY STAGE 1 VS STAGE 1.5 VS STAGE 2 VS STAGE 3

It’s time for another LS Camshaft Test with Richard Holdener. No matter how many he tests, folks always want to see back to back to back testing of camshafts on one engine and that is exactly...

AA/FUEL DRAGSTER – TULSA NITRO NATIONALS 2023. FULL COVERAGE FROM THE NHRA HOT ROD HERITAGE SERIES

Les just sent us the link to his new AA/Fuel Dragster video from Tulsa Raceway Park, and we knew we had to share it right away. If you loved all our March Meet and California Hot Rod Reunion...

1320Video Is In Japan For Tokyo Auto Salon And The Japanese Police SHUT DOWN Their Car Meet at Daikoku PA!

Kyle and Matt and the crew are in Japan for the Tokyo Auto Salon and have been running around hitting up as many fun car things as possible. One of them is Daikoku PA, one of the must attend car-meet...

Steve Magnante Is Back And Truck Week Continues. Truck Week Feature #2 – Mack DM600.

Here’s the second video of Steve’s Truck Week series! This time it’s a Mack DM600 that would make a rad ramp truck! Our friend Steve Magnante has been out of commission for a few...