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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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1320Video Feature: This Volkswagen Bus is Faster than 99% of Cars on the Streets! Imagine What It Must Be Like Riding Up Front In This Thing!

Sometimes we forget that drag racing goes on all over the world, and that folks are ate up with it just as much as we are around here in some of those places. One such place is in the UK where Santa...

A Coyote Swapped VW Bus? Yeah, It’s Everything You Would Hope It Was And More! Check Out This Awesome Feature Video

When John Henns, a lifelong VW guy, decided he wanted to build another VW Bus, he decided he wanted to do it differently. And he certainly accomplished that one! This thing is awesome, not only...

Will Demolition Ranch And Vice Grip Garage Save This ABANDONED El Camino With A Seized Engine So They Can Give It Away?- Will it RUN AND DRIVE? Or Will This One Need Too Much?

If they are giving it away, it has to run right? I mean the gods are on their sides! Okay, so maybe the locked up engine is a problem. Are they going to pickle it to get it to move? Force it? Or just...

Ultimate Adventure 2023 With The Dirthead Shed! Watch Dave Take Us Through The Rest Of His Week Of Hell, I Mean Wheeling.

When Dave says he beat the hell out of himself and this truck on Ultimate Adventure 2023, he means it! This project is pretty cool, and we knew there would be some carnage, but this might be one of...

THE 400-HP QUESTION-4.6L 2V MOD FORD-ALL MOTOR VS SUPERCHARGED-WHAT IS THE BEST ROUTE FOR HP? BOTH?

Looking for Mod Motor horsepower recipes? Want to make a lot more power with the one you have? Wonder which way to go on your own build? You aren’t alone, and that’s okay because Richard...

Big Dog Pro Mod Shootout Photo Coverage: This Epic Battle Continued In 2023 And Did Not Disappoint! We’ve Got The Photos To Prove It!

(Words and Photos by Benoit Pigeon) Since 1996, the Big Dog Shootout (known as Big Dog) has been the place to go to watch pro modified racing on a regular basis in northern North Carolina. Open in...

Wally Park’s Nostalgia Nationals Photo Coverage: Nitro Funny Cars, Dragsters, Fuel Altereds, Back Up Girls And So Much More From Famoso!

(Photos by Kim Fuller and Darr Hawthorne)  This season-ending event for West Coast NHRA Heritage Series racing celebrates events at Famoso Dragstrip, Sacramento raceway, Firebird Raceway and Beech...

TIM CAMERON’S NEW BUGGY, 100 SHOT, DOMINATES SOUTHERN ROCK RACING SERIES FINALS 2023

Tim Cameron is a bad bad man. When he decides he’s going to build an off-road buggy that climbs things even goats won’t try, he usually succeeds and does so with lots of flurry. This...

PHOTO COVERAGE: Robert Hight, Mike Salinas, Erica Enders & Gaige Herrera #1 Qualifiers After Two Rounds at NHRA Nevada Nationals!

(Photos by Kim Fuller) • Robert Hight claimed the provisional No. 1 position at The Strip at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, making the quickest run in both qualifying sessions on Friday at the 23rd...

More 2023 PDRA Drag Wars GALOT Photo Coverage: As The PDRA Season Draws To A Close, The Action Gets Hotter

Here’s gallery two from the PDRA Drag Wars. If you missed the first one, use the link below. (Photos by David Whealon) – There’s a neat thing that happens when every racing season starts...

WASTED MONEY – 1956 Chevrolet 2 Door Conversion With Twin Turbos? DD Speed Shop Doing Burnout Things Because Burnouts Matter

With all the technology available to make real power, and on the cheap, it has never been easier to throw some cheap parts at your beater so it makes lots of big smoke. It’s funny, because...

Cutting Torch SET UP, TIPS, & TRICKS Everyone MUST KNOW! OXY-ACETYLENE How To From Karl Fisher

When I was a kid, my Grandpa Lanning used a torch all the time. He was a master with the thing, and used it for way more than just cutting metal. As a guy who did wrought iron fences, he used them to...

TUNE PORT L98 350-CAN WE MAKE 500 LB-FT OF TORQUE? PLUS, TRI-Y VS 4:1 HEADER TEST-WHO MAKES TORQUE?

When the TPI small block came out, it was the high performance combo that powered Corvettes and Camaros. It didn’t make much power, but it made more than most anything else available at the...

Airstrip Cash Days: They SHUT DOWN an AIRSTRIP for Drag Racing! Surprise! There Was No Traction!

When you show up to a race and then find out there is more racing than you expected, it’s a good day. That’s exactly what happened to Kyle and the crew at 1320Video when they showed up to...