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Lost Buckeye Skips Day TWO Drag and Drive Photos! We’ve Got On Track Action and Checkpoints, and More From Day 2 Coming!

Here’s our first gallery of lost photos from Day 2 of Buckeye Skip’s Drag and Drive, and we’ve got plenty more where that came from! Plus, if you missed the previous photos...

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The Martin Lundqvist Racing Street Week Sweden Drag and Drive 1969 Camaro Project Continues! The 8HP and LS Get Custom Mounts!

I can’t wait to see Project 508 in person in Sweden in a few weeks! This project is in full swing and we are super excited about what is going on with this machine. We’ve got another couple...

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Our Final Gallery of Lost Buckeye Skips Day One Drag and Drive Photos! We’ve Got On Track Action and Checkpoints, and More From Day 2 Coming!

Here’s our third gallery of lost photos from Day 1 of Buckeye Skip’s Drag and Drive, and we’ve got plenty more where that came from! Plus, if you missed the previous photos...

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All The Racing Action From This Weekend’s SCTA El Mirage Flying Mile. 200 MPH Plus On Dirt! Watch Right Here.

While Bonneville gets most of the attention in Land Speed Racing, because it clearly is home to the biggest and baddest land speed racing events of the year, most land speed racers will tell you that...

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Dirt Daily with Fred Williams. His Barn Find 1989 Land Cruiser FJ-62 gets a Dissent Off Road Rear Bumper!

Years and years ago I built a 1987 Toyota FJ-62 for my buddy Sean and I loved it. We painted it, lifted it, improved a bunch of suspension and drivetrain, and then he drove the hell out of it. It was...

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Larry Chen AWD K24 Turbo EG & Drift S13 Feature Video: Indonesia’s Top Tuner Show Produced These Two Amazing Builds!

These things are siiiccckkkkk. Yes, I love the EG hatch a bit more than the S13, but that’s because I have one at home. This one here looks absolutely insane and I love it. But so does the S13...

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Tired Of Your Weak Little Chainsaw? Just Add Nitromethane To The Tank – This Video Is Awesome

There are plenty of guys who hot rod chainsaws, right? There’s competitions around the country for saws that have all different types of engine swaps all the way up to V8 saws. This is not...

Look Back Video: This Review of The 2004 Ram SRT-10 Is A Reminder Of How Cool They Are

Maybe it was the overall look, maybe it was the engine, maybe it was the six speed stick, I don’t really know. What I do know is that at 24 years old, with a decent job, and no kids yet, I was...

The Sounds Of Freedom: Watch And Listen To Every Engine Combination Sherman Tanks Used

The venerable Sherman tank used by American and Allied forces in WWII may not have been the best thing on the battlefield but it was functional, evolutionary, and they were used in volume. One of the...

Hiding a Dry Sump Tank in My Hemi-Swapped ’55 Chevy Gasser: Can You Find Where Finnegan Put This Thing? Or Is He As Sneaky As He Thinks?

Sometimes building horsepower isn’t as hard as packaging everything into an engine compartment that is needed to make that power. I think that the crazier you get the more you just assume that...

INSANE 1945 TT Diesel RAT ROD + 400 mile TORTURE test (Race Week 2.0 Days 2 & 3 Did Not Disappoint)

It’s the fall drag and drive season and that means it is time for Race Week! Also known as Rocky Mountain Race Week 2.0, or Race Week 2.0, this is the second event of the year for the Rocky...

Cleetus McFarland Puts LeRoy The Savage On The Rollers At Harrell Engine And Dyno To Test Out It’s New H.E.D. engine.

We shared the video about LeRoy’s new engine the other day, but if you missed it there is a link below to check it out. Today’s video is strapping LeRoy to the chassis dyno to see just...

Influence and Impact – OBS Trucks Gone Wild, Air Suspension, Custom Paint, and Retro CK Resurgence

It’s time for another episode of Influence and Impact, but this time it is all about customized OBS trucks and the extremes they went to in order to create such a strong sport truck market....

Cool Animation: Take A Look At This Comprehensive Layout Of The Triple Expansion Steam Engines On The Titanic

One of my sons is into the Titanic disaster these days and he has been scarfing up books and stories about the ship and the icy end that befell it. One of the things we have been working through are...

Watch Monster Mania: This Is A Fun Look At The Monster Truck World In 1986!

Yes, this is one of those awesome 1980s VHS transfers that we all love so much around here. Before DVDs and streaming, and YouTube (ironically) there were limited channels to air stuff on. That meant...

Innovation In Action Video: How Dodge Stepped Up And Produced The Sperry Gyro-Compass During WWII

The stories of innovation, engineering, and manufacturing heroism during WWII are legend and will be until the end of time. From Ford producing airplanes by the gripload to GM cranking out trucks and...

This Hill Climb Racing Video From Scotland Will Blow Your Mind – Incredible Speed and Skill At The Donue Hill Climb

We’ve always loved looking at hill climb footage over the years but this right here makes the majority of the guys we have showed in the past look like they were cruising barcaloungers through...

Underrated Fun Machine: This Period Review Of The 2003 Dodge Neon SRT-4 Is A Reminder That Cheap, Fun Cars Existed

I remember scoffing the first time I saw one of of these cars at the drag strip. It had that wing. It had the semi-goofy looks of a Neon, and it was raspy loud. And then it was clicking off ETs in...

Fun History: This Look Back At The Designer Series Cars Of The 1970s Is Interesting, Gaudy, and Cool

If there is one thing that people think of when it comes to the 1970s it’s the aesthetic of the decade. The colors, the overwrought size of stuff, the gilding of otherwise ugly stuff to make it...

Leadoff Act: The 1987 Chevy Beretta Was A Youthful Sporting Shot From A Company Reshaping Itself At The Time

For 10 years, if you did not want a Camaro or a Corvette your other option for a coupe from Chevrolet was the Beretta. This two-door version of the Corsica was made in several different models,...