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Drag and Drive Photos: Buckeye Skips 2026 – Day 1 Driver’s Meeting, Checkpoints, and Racing at Darana Raceway National Trail in Ohio

(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 1, when the driver’s...

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Our Final Gallery of 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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Shop Tour Video: United by Trucks Visits Pennsylvania’s Hart Fab to Get A Look At What Makes Them Tick. This is UBT ON TOUR

I love shop tours. Who doesn’t? Seeing a hot rod or custom shop building cars and trucks is always fun to see, and when they do it right it is really fun to check out all their fabrication,...

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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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Laid On Its Balls! How This Custom NBS Went From Show To Scrap And Back To Life And On The Road!

This truck has got some interesting history and has lived a rough life but has been brought back to life in a big way. After being built, this truck lit the show world on fire as it was laid out on...

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100 Hot Rod Roadsters. Three Days. One Incredible Adventure. This Road Trip Is Full of Collections, Cruises, And Memories Like None Other.

We love a good road trip, and doing one in a topless hot rod sounds like a wonderful idea. I’m a big fan of a good convertible, and so are these guys. In this video you’ll see 100 vintage...

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Did Anyone On The Planet Actually Think This WASN’T Going To Be Horrific? The Cleetus DANGER RANGER 9000 On Dirt Was INSANE!!!

While I’m a huge fan of taking crap cars and trucks out and racing them against each other in the name of fun, I don’t think anyone with more than two brain cells thought the Danger...

2023 Spring Carlisle Swap Meet – The Iron Trap Boys Found Some Gold!!

Carlisle, the name alone just makes hot rodders drool. It is one of those iconic swap meets that signals the start of hot rodding season, and gets east coasters out and about to collect more parts...

WHICH ONE MAKES MORE 5.0L HP, E7 HEADS & CAM 347 STROKER OR HCI 302? WHAT ABOUT WHEN WE ADD BOOST?

Is cubes always better? Or should you just make the engine size you have work more efficiently? Is adding heads, cam and intake improvements to your stock displacement small block the way to go or...

PDRA East Coast Nationals Action Photos: Here’s Our Final PDRA Gallery From GALOT

Our final gallery of photos from the PDRA East Coast Nationals at Galot is below, and we can’t thank David Whealon enough for sharing them with all of us. If you missed any of them so far, use...

Amelia Island Concourse d’Elegance: Bitchin Cars In A Bitchin Location. Look At Everything Grippo Saw!

We’ve got another great gallery of photos from Amelia Island thanks to Joe Grippo. If you missed any of our other photos, use the link below to check them all out. (Words and Photos by Joe...

The Race Of Gentleman: Epic Traditional Hot Rods And Race Cars On A Historic Airfield

(Photos by Wes Allison) We’ve got so many photos from TROG, because it is just too easy to capture awesomeness at this event. Seriously, this is one of the coolest events of the year and if...

ABANDONED 1955 Chevy Nomad Update: Twin Snipers – The DD Speed Shop VISA Card Is Still Cooling…

Dual Sniper throttle bodies baby! We have a friend that did this on a big block and loves it, and I’m sure this one is just as awesome! It started out as less car than he thought it was, but...

NEW PROJECT ALERT! 1967 MGB GT Walk-Thru And Attempt To Start and Drive. Or Will It Be All British And Just Fail?

If Jefferson ever buys a car that makes sense to me, I’m going to question whether or not I’ve lost my mind or he’s finally come back from the dark side. He has a penchant for...

THE ULTIMATE 5.3L CAM TEST VIDEO-HOW MUCH POWER WILL MY CAM MAKE? FOR ANY LS CAM-THE ANSWER IS HERE!

Here it is, the test to end all camshaft tests, or so it seems anyway. Richard has tested more camshafts in junkyard 5.3’s than most anyone on the planet, even more than MANY camshaft...

Upgrade Video: How To Replace (And Improve) Your Dodge Truck’s Steering With A Borgeson Steering Shaft

There are certain operations you can perform on your car, truck, hot rod, whatever that may seem like small potatoes on paper but have a huge positive impact on the experience of piloting your stuff...

How-To Build Aluminum Bomber Seats: Part 2- How-To Aircraft Rivet All These Awesome Parts Together

Here is Part 2 of the bomber seat build and in it, you are going to learn how to use badass aircraft rivets to put stuff together like this seat. This is fun. If you missed Part 1, use the link below...

MIKE TELLS US THE REAL REASON HE QUIT MAKING FASTER WITH FINNEGAN!

We love this latest video from Finnegan’s Garage as Mike does more mailbag stuff while also telling us why he left Faster With Finnegan. There is no drama surrounding the show, and Newbern and...

Muscle Car Hoard Found in Oklahoma! How Do These Still Exist? Patrick Glenn Nichols Finds Them

Whenever a collection of cars like this come to light in the public I’m blown away. Intelligently, I know that these things exist all over the place, but when you see them it just makes my...

What Is An East Coast Hot Rod – Hot Rodding 101 With Iron Trap Garage

Traditional hot rods are where everything we do ultimately came from. While hot rodding may find a lot of its roots on the west coast, the east coast was super influential in the hot rodding and...