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STREET WEEK SWEDEN LIVE in the United States For The First Time! Get Your All Access Pass To Drag And Drive Greatness Right Here!

That’s right folks, we’ve been talking about it for a few weeks but now is the time to sign up for your livestream from Street Week Sweden! I’ll be there, announcing, interviewing,...

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It’s Time For Buckeye Skips 2026! We’ve Got Photos Starting With Day 0 Right Here! Who Showed Up, and Who Are The Favorites?

(Photos by Neal Sabo) We just finished sharing our lost Buckeye Skips drag and drive photos from 2025 the other day, but we’re excited about 2026! Yesterday was Day 0, when everyone shows up...

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More Car Show Photos From Pueblo’s Biggest Father’s Day Event! The 2026 Father’s Day Car Show!

(Photos by Charles Wickam) Billed as the biggest Father’s Day event in Pueblo, the Father’s Day Car Show at the Pueblo Christian Center is in it’s 8th year and fills up fast on show...

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Australian Drag and Drive Machine! This 1400hp HQ Ute was Built to Survive Drag Challenge. Street and Strip Greatness!

The Aussies are something special when it comes to hot rods, race cars, and especially their street strip machines. With all the restrictions they have on what you can do to a car or truck over...

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John Jackson visits Squeeg’s Kustoms: Shop Tour, Projects, an insane Dodge A100, and photographing the America’s Most Beautiful Roadster!

After missing it for a couple of years, it was good to be back at the Grand National Roadster Show in Pomona in 2025. It was especially cool because the field of cars that were in contention for...

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Loren Healy and the El Bandito Ford Bronco Take First in Ultra4 USA at the Pikes Peak International Hill Climb! Race Day Onboard 2026

Loren Healy is no stranger to going fast, no matter what he’s driving, but he’s most at home behind the wheel of his Ultra 4 Bronco in the dirt. So what made him want to take the El...

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Chop Top How To: Chopping The Top on a 1953 Chevy Truck. Part 2: Fixing a Butchered Top Chop

If you missed Part 1 of this 1953 Chevrolet truck chop, we’ve got a link below to make sure you see it too. In this one the metal work begins in earnest as the rear section of the roof...

HOW TO TIG WELD SILICON BRONZE: Karl At Make It Kustom Is Making A Custom Urn For A Fellow Hot Rodder

If you have ever had a loved one pass away and done the search for an urn, you know that there aren’t many cool options. When my wife passed away, we had the guys at Mooneye’s make a...

Watch A Greenwood Corvette Lose An Engine In Flaming Fashion On The Banks Of Daytona!

The most positive among us talk about how there’s “no such thing as a bad day at the race track” and while there are times that we agree with such Pollyanna vision, videos like the...

Fun Propaganda: 1974 Film Touting The Supremacy Of Chevy Trucks Over Fords Uses Some Wacky Tests

Automakers have been creating promotional sales videos since the advent of the moving picture, right? To us, they are great because even in the darkest of times, they were all talking about how...

This 900CC Ninja Engine Powered Toro Snow Blower Is Setting The Bar For BangShifty Snow Domination

Swedes. We love these guys because they come up with awesome methods to both play in and move snow. There seems to be no end to their creativity and this video is further proof. The builder of this...

Dirthead Dave Is Getting His Mini Truck On With Hand Made Airbag Mounts on the rear of his Nissan Minitruck

Dave Chappelle, the one that can weld and build killer trucks of all kinds, not the funny one on TV, is our kind of dude. One day he’s working on his horribly ugly, but cool, bagged Mustang II,...

Beards, Burnouts, and Beer Podcast: Racing Into 2024! The Bullhorn Edition With Eric Yost From Customs By Bigun.

We had a fun Beards, Burnouts, and Beer show this past week with Eric Yost from Customs by Bigun and were talking 2024 events, what we’ve got going on, and Bullhorns. Not the kind on a four...

Sally’s Speed Shop And Dylan McCool Try To Save A FORGOTTEN General Lee! Will It RUN and DRIVE After All These Years?

If you are a car enthusiast over the age of 40, the General Lee is an American TV icon, as we all grew up watching the Dukes of Hazzard where this car was as big a character as any of those folks...

Local DRAG CAR Survivor and Other Cool Stuff at the Paradise Dragstrip Toy Drive With The Hot Rod Hoarder

Tommy Lee Byrd is back at it, and was recently out for a show and race at Paradise Dragstrip in December for their annual toy drive show which had been cancelled due to rain two weekends in a row!...

Can You Tell The Difference Between A 1969 or 1970 Shelby? What are the Differences? Find Out With Expert Jim Wicks & a 1970 GT500 Convertible!

If you grow up as a car enthusiast, with parents who taught you the differences between their favorite hot rod and muscle car models, you  know the differences between the years of your favorites....

The Alfarrari Project: Custom Electric Windows Front And Rear On A Car That Never Had Them To Begin With

It’s windows time for the Alfarrari project, and while the glass has been there all along, there hasn’t been any way to raise and lower them electrically until now. But this isn’t a...

Iron Trap’s Hidden 1938 Ford Convertible Hot Rod: Is The Engine Seized In Our 1938 Ford Convertible – First Wash!!

In a previous video we shared the 1938 Ford Convertible Hot Rod that the guys at Iron Trap Garage found stashed away in an old garage, but in this video it is getting the first bath it has had in...

Influence And Impact Episode 12: Mini Truck History Part 1 ’70s Van Crase and ’80s Euro, Tilt Beds and Airbags

I’m an unapologetic mini trucker. There was a time, not so long ago actually, where lots of folks in the hot rod and custom world didn’t think much of mini truckers and so many people who...

In-Car Video: Wheel-Sawing Action In The Cockpit Of A Small Block Powered 289 Cobra!

There are few cars that have the mythology, history, and downright awesome past than the Shelby Cobra. The little English car that became an American icon with the addition of a 260, then a 289, and...