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Steve Magnante’s Daily Junkyard Crawl: This 351, 4-SPEED, 3.50:1 TRACTION LOCK 1971 TORINO GT Is Cool!

It’s time for another Daily Junkyard Crawl with Steve Magnante, and this time it’s another really cool Ford. How about a real deal 1971 Torino GT with a 351, 4-speed, and a 9 inch with...

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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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Indianapolis World Of Wheels Car Show Photos: Hot Rides On Display In The Mid West

(Words and Photos by Jim Hrody) The Indianapolis World of Wheels is an exceptional show to check out. The 64th annual, as in years past, took place at the Indiana State Fairgrounds. Around 500...

THE REMATCH! TRUCK NORRIS VS CHOPACABRA VS PRO LS VS LIL HOT ROD. WHAT IS THE BEST LS TRUCK CAM?

It’s on! Richard Holdener is doing the ultimate truck cam shootout right here with a 5.3 on the dyno at Westech Performance Group and a stack of “Truck Cams”. He’s testing...

Halfass Kustoms 1935 Dodge Coupe Project: Part 10 Cutting The Coupe In Half To Make It Better.

There has been a lot of progress, but now that the roofline and doors are the right size and shape it is obvious that some more tweaks are needed in the back of the car. So Brent is cutting the whole...

Rolling Thunder Video: This Highlight Reel Of Hot Rod Semi Truck Pulling Rigs Is Power Defined

When I took Freiburger to his first ever pull, we were in Northern Maine. He was there with the Turks and they were running the Hot Rod Special Camaro at the Loring Timing Association LSR meet. When...

Comfy Cruiser: This 1984 Chevrolet Caprice Review Revels In The Platform’s Longevity And It Still Had a Decade More To Go

There are some telling words at the end of this MotorWeek review of the 1984 Chevy Caprice. Those words point to a future where cars will have the same amount of interior room as a 1984 Caprice but...

This 1957 Newsreel Clip Of The 500-Mile USAC Stock Car Race At Trenton, New Jersey Has Fantastic Footage – The Cars Rule

By 1957 the idea of a 500-mile stock cars race was not exactly a new one as the first 500-miler had been contested back in 1950 but they were still a relative rarity and one being held in New Jersey...

Video: Texas Street Racing for BIG MONEY (Cops EVERYWHERE)

Cash Days action baby! Kyle and the 1320 Crew headed down to Texas, err Mexico, for some more killer street racing action. It was cold, but it was good and they caught all the action to share with...

Goodguys Del Mar Car Show Photos: Trucks, Muscle Cars, Customs, And Hot Rods Galore

(Photos by Wes Allison) When the Goodguys Rod and Custom Association comes to the Del Mar Fairgrounds near San Diego, it is always a great show. The fairground end right at the beach on the Pacific...

Texas Radial Roundup From Our Friends At Street Car Chronicles

Ryan was back at it, visiting another great race, the Texas Radial Roundup. I was there announcing and can tell you that that racing action was hot and heavy and we dug it! Ryan was on hand with some...

Baby Gators Photos: NHRA Divisional Sportsman Drag Racing Action Shots

(Words and Photos by Joe Grippo) The main reason for my wife and I deciding to flee the northeast winter and head to sunny Florida last month was to get in some Drag Racing. Florida in March, you may...

Indianapolis World Of Wheels Car Show Photos: Hot Rods, Customs, And More From The Home Of Speed.

(Words and Photos by Jim Hrody) The Indianapolis World of Wheels is an exceptional show to check out. The 64th annual, as in years past, took place at the Indiana State Fairgrounds. Around 500...

HOW MUCH POWER DID THE 1965-70 L78 375-HP 396 REALLY MAKE PART 1? FULL 396 BBC BUILD & DYNO ATTEMPT

Video Description: DID THE L78 375-HP 396 ACTUALLY MAKE 375 HP, OR DID IT MAKE 425 HP (RATED IN 1965)? HOW MUCH POWER DID THE SS396 REALLY MAKE? COULD THE LITTLE BIG BLOCK TAKE FULL ADVANTAGE OF THE...

Flying Sparks Starts Working On The Rough C6 Corvette’s T56: Part 4 Reassembling This T-56 To See If It Works!

They found plenty of broken parts inside when they took it apart, but now it’s time to put it back together. Maybe this isn’t a how-to video, but more of a how-they-did-it video. Check it...

Neat History: This 1970s In-Depth News Feature About Drag Racing In New Zealand Is Great – Fuelers!

Now this is pretty awesome. You are about to take a trip back in time to the 1970s and more importantly that trip will take us to a couple of the country’s drag strips like Thunder Park to see...