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Jay Leno Drives the Ultimate 1967 Muscle Car Unicorn (With an American Powertrain 6-Speed Swap!)

Just 187 1967 Pontiac 2+2 HOs were built from the factory, and man is this thing a real unicorn. With the 428 under the hood, and a factory 4-speed, it was a fun car to drive, but it’s a whole...

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FREE No Prep Drag And Drive LIVESTREAM: Back To The Streets 2026 Is Hitting Wabash, Wagler, Brown County And Bunker Hill Dragways This Week!

It’s Drag and Drive season and that means more and more folks are taking their hot rods and race cars out for racing and road trips and we love them for it. Back to the Streets is one of the more...

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NHRA Four-Wide Nationals Action Photos From Zmax In Charlotte: Our Nitro Burning Top Fuel Dragster and Funny Car 4-Wide Drag Racing Photos Continue!

(Photos by David Whealon) – It was a cool, fast, and adventurous weekend for the stars of the NHRA Mission Drag Racing Series at the NHRA Four-Wide Nationals at zMax Dragway in Charlotte, North...

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Featured Product: Mazda Miata Coil Overs From Ridetech! One Of The Best Track Day Cars Ever Gets Some New Goodies From Ridetech!

Whether you love their 4 cylinder power, or not, it’s hard to argue with the handling prowess of the venerable Mazda Miata. The MX5, as it is known everywhere else in the world, is light,...

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Indianapolis 500 Movie – The 500: Immortality at Indy. The Greatest Spectacle in Racing.

The Indianapolis 500 will be run for the 110th time this Sunday as the green flag drops for the 2026 edition of this amazing race. Regardless of whether you are a hardcore Indy Car Series fan, or...

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More NHRA Four-Wide Nationals Action Photos From Zmax In Charlotte: Nitro Burning Top Fuel Dragster and Funny Car4-Wide Drag Racing Photos!

(Photos by David Whealon) – It was a cool, fast, and adventurous weekend for the stars of the NHRA Mission Drag Racing Series at the NHRA Four-Wide Nationals at zMax Dragway in Charlotte, North...

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HOW TO: YOUR FIRST CHEAP, JUNKYARD TURBO MOTOR! WHAT YOU NEED, WHAT YOU DON’T & FULL DYNO RESULTS!

Building your first turbo combo, whether it is an LS or not, starts one of two ways. You are either going in headlong with zero hesitation because you’ve watched Richard’s videos and are...

Bangshift Road Trip: We Check Out Digger’s Dungeon In Poplar Branch, NC!

With summer fast approaching, many of you are going to find yourselves out on vacation, looking for things to do while you’re away from it all. And if you’re a gearhead (and let’s...

Awesome Resto Video: Watch This 100 Year Old Jewelry Lathe Get Restored With Narration – Cool Stuff!

Normally the dude on the Hand Tool Restoration channel of YouTube works silently. We get to revel in the work and the sounds of his tools. That said, he has dropped a couple of narrated videos over...

FREE LIVE STREAMING DRAG RACING: The Spring Stampede At The Texas Motorplex Is LIVE Right Now!

The Spring Stampede, presented by Hose Connection Inc. at the Texas Motorplex starts Friday! Flicker Promotions and Gleghorn Race Services are bringing big money bracket racing back to Texas with a...

David Newbern FINALLY Takes His First Car, That He Just Recently Bought Back, For A Cruise Around His Home Town

A couple of months ago we saw David Newbern buy his first car, a 1964 Impala, back after selling it years and years ago. The car is a very low mileage 283 small block powered car, backed by a...

Split Decision: This Video Talks About The Reasons That Ford Small Blocks Split In Half

There are certain truths that gearheads hold self-evident. Hemis are nearly indestructible, anyone can build a small block Chevy, and a Ford small block is going to split down the middle like a baked...

Did You Know GM Equipped Vehicles With A Secret Factory Ratchet Shifter In The 1970s? Video Proof Here!

I like to think that I know lots of stuff about cars of the muscle era and beyond but every once in a while I am reminded that there’s lots of stuff that I had no idea about, like the factory...

How-To Linear Stretch With A Power Hammer – Make It Kustom Is Metal Shaping At Bespoke Coachworks

While Karl at Make It Kustom does a ton to teach as many metal shaping techniques as he possibly can, he is still a student of the process and that means he’s always wanting to learn even more...

Building A Custom Center Console For a Classic Truck, Including All The Upholstery

Sometimes building custom parts for the interior of your classic car or truck can be fun, and other times it can be so daunting because we make it into something bigger than it really is. The...

2021+ Bronco Parts: Spare Tire Kit, Lift Kit, LED Lighting, And More To Make Your Bronco Your Own

If you’ve got a new Bronco, and you want to make it your own, then Holley has got the parts for you. We’re talking lift kits, skid plates, lighting, and so much more. This is a vehicle...

FREE Livestreaming Video: FuelTech SFG Super Bowl of Bracket Racing – LIVE ALL WEEK

Video Description: It’s time for the kick-off for the 2023 SFG Promotions season. There’s no better way to do it than with the Super Bowl of Bracket Racing, the longest standing SFG...

Barn Find! 1971 Pontiac Trans Am! 455 Auto On The Column? Fresh Out Of Storage After 40 Years!

Everyone knows that a 455-powered Trans Am is something special, especially if it is a 1970 or 1971. What makes some of them even more interesting than they would already be is the fact that...

Installing (UYpgrading) An Aeromotive Dual Phantom 340 In-Tank Fuel Pump Module In A Muscle Car

Jefferson is back at it, installing a new Aeromotive Dual Phantom system on his Buick GS. The car already has a single Phantom in it, but it needs the dual setup because he’s upgraded the...

Leverage And Torque Rule: Watch This Log Skidder Operator Save Another Machine From A Frozen Lake In Maine

We have all had one of those “good idea at the time” situations turn bad on us in a hurry, right? Thankfully for me anyway it has not involved a vehicle that weighs 15 tons and a frozen...