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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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An Amazing Tale: The Story Of The Rotodyne, The Vertical Take Off Airliner That Almost Made It (Video)

When we think of failed aeronautical innovations we normally put them in the same category known as, “stuff that could not actually fly.” Well this video and this story will stand as...

Break the Record: The Story of The Blue Flame LSR Car – Absolutely Awesome Historic LSR Video!

Before the British Thrust SSC took the World Land Speed Record in 1997, it was held by an Earth-bound rocket known as, “The Blue Flame”. The car was built by Reaction Dynamics, the...

Is Goliath Really Sold? Really Leaving The Country? Together And Loading Up For The Last Time? Watch.

We all know that Daddy Dave Comstock built a whole new NPK car that debuted last year at the SEMA Show in Las Vegas and that he’s been racing and winning with it all year long. But he also...

Shop Shenanigans: Can The Iron Trap Garage Crew Get This Unknown 331 Cadillac Engine To Run??!!

I love all the cool old iron that the guys at Iron Trap Garage are always finding, because most of their stuff is at least 20 years older than the muscle car stuff I mess around with most often. What...

Budget Shop Truck: Squarebody Long Bed To Short Bed Conversion – CHEAP REPAIRS. Basic Patch Panel How To With A MIG Welder

This cool low buck shop truck build is turning out really cool and we dig it. If you missed it, the long bed became a short bed, using the stock bed with the smallest of cuts and welds so that the...

Remember Bigfoot and USA-1 Racing Down Lanes of Crushed Cars At Gateway Motorsports Park In 1983? Let This Video Remind You

This video is absolutely awesome on every single level and we have to thank Chuy Nava for thinking of us and tipping us off to its existence. You are going to jump back in time to 1983 and to the...

Le Mans: The Grand Prize – This 1973 Film About The John Greenwood Corvette Team At Le Mans Rules

Ok, this is one of the most fantastic vintage road racing films we have ever seen. The title of the film is Le Mans: The Grand Prize and it is an inside look at the John Greenwood racing effort at...

History Video: The “Other” Racing At Pomona – Sports Car Racing Circa 1960 With Dave McDonald And Max Balchowsky

When the word Pomona is uttered around a car guy the first thought is drag racing, right? After all, the Pomona Fairplex has been home to the NHRA’s brand of motorsports entertainment for...

Twin Turbo S10 RIPS On The Street! Blasting SUB-ZERO down a Back Road For Science. See This Thing At PRI In The Melling Booth!

The SUB-ZERO S10 is back and ready to rock. But instead of just shining it up for the PRI Show and leaving it alone, they are doing some upgrades and then doing testing. Again, nobody would know if...

Vice Grip Garage Frankenstein Duster Part 4: FIRST DRIVE! Patching Floors and NEW INTERIOR For The Giveaway Duster!

In this installment of the Vice Grip Garage Giveaway Duster you are going to see some floor patches happen, interior go in, and a first drive! Will it smoke the hides off the Cragar wheels? This...

How to Remove Rust – 6 Easy Ways to Protect Bare Metal With Willomet Motor And Fab’s 1970 Dodge Charger

We’ve all had to deal with rust repair on a project before, but what about the rust that shows up when you start working on something with new metal? I’m talking about two months into...

MOST POWERFUL LS3 INTAKE EVER? SUPER RICHIE DUAL-PLENUM, ADJUSTABLE RUNNER LENGTH AND PLENUM VOLUME

One thing some of his casual fans may not realize is that Richard Holdener has not only done all the testing and tech stories for magazines and websites for decades, but has also done a LOT of...

Demo Derby In Car Video: Watch A Cadillac Take Four Minutes Of Pounding Before It Spits The Bit

Ahhhh, the demolition derby. Long a staple of county and state fair entertainment it is about as pure a concept as you can get. Bash your brains out and the last man or woman running wins. Being the...

What’s Worse Than Turning Your Pulling Tractor Over? Turning It Over And Blowing Up All The Engines

We have showed you plenty of pulling mishaps over the years but this one has a special class that it will end up in. Why? Not because of the rather gentle roll but because of the fact that after the...