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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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LOW-BUCK vs MO-BUCK, CHEAP, JUNKYARD 454 VS GM ZZ454 CRATE MOTOR-WHICH ONE WOULD YOU CHOOSE & WHY?

Junkyard vs Crate, this is a comparison that has been going on for a long time and people have a variety of opinions on which one is the best for a hot rod project. While both of the engines in this...

Youtubers Made the Smallest, Fastest Impact Wrenches on the Planet, Torque Test Channel Tests ‘Em!

Hot rodded tools?! Yep, what happens if you take your average cordless tools, in this case impact drivers, and you add parts from an impact wrench/gun? I have a feeling that bad things happen in some...

LS Fest East Photo Coverage: Autocross Action Means Sideways Corner Carving Fun

More fun pro touring and autocross action from LS Fest! (Photos by Wes Allison) Holley’s LS Fest events are now spread across the country, but the one that started it all is held in Bowling Green...

Holley’s End Of Summer Exhaust Sale! Blowing Out Warehouse Deals At Up To 88% Off!

You read that right, up to 88% off on Holley exhaust products right now! That means Flowmaster, Hooker, Flowtech, and so much more! Given how much time it has taken to get parts over the last two...

SEMA Launch Pad Announces Top Five Finalists – Top innovators advance to pitch their product ideas at 2022 SEMA Show

DIAMOND BAR, Calif. (Sept. 27, 2022) – Five standout innovators have been selected from nearly 100 competitors to advance in the 2022 SEMA Launch Pad Competition.   Dustin Golat, co-owner of...

This Not-Quite-Right Ford Taurus Slipped Past NASCAR’s Inspectors And Got Approved For Homologation

The Ford Taurus has many good things to be proud of. The initial Taurus/Sable launch got Ford out of a rut that they had been stuck in since the mid-1970s and got them to evolve their design...

Revive The Revived: Dylan McCool Brings The Ravine ‘Cuda Back Into The Light!

Earlier this summer, Dylan McCool and I got to check out a treasure trove of vehicles that YouTuber Solomon Lunger (FordEra) had bought. If you are a fan of 1970s-era Ford trucks, it was your heaven,...

Route 66 Cruisin’ Reunion Photos: Real Cruising On Route 66 In SoCal!

(Photos by Dannie Pinard) Euclid Avenue is one of the most historic streets in Southern California and is right on Route 66. It’s a street that runs through the heart of Ontario and Upland, and...

Are Cheap Boats Ever A Good Idea? $500 BIG BLOCK Boat Revival!! Will it Run After YEARS??

At least a couple hundred times in the last ten years I have found myself on Craigslist or FB Marketplace or eBay Motors, looking at cheap boats and thinking I need to buy one and fix it up so I can...

Halfass Kustoms 1955 Chevrolet NAPCO 4×4 Project: Recycling Body Mounts And More To Make This Whole Thing Work

NAPCO was a company that built 4-wheel drive conversion parts for domestic trucks and was founded in 1918. Although they made parts for Ford, Chevrolet, GMC, and Studebaker trucks, they are most well...

Polishing Turds: Part 11, This Thing Is Finally Going To Be A Whole Engine Again!

In this new episode of the Polishing Turds series from HED you are going to see the final assembly of the engine finally completed! Pete covered assembly prep and cam bearings, and other assembly...

The Alfarrari Project Continues: When Will The Rust Stop!? Plus Bonus Engine Build Video.

There has been so much new metal going into this build, which has been awesome, but there never seems to be an end to the rust either. In this episode, it looks like there has to be an end in sight,...

Vice Grip Garage Pontiac GTO Project: New Fuel & Brake System (First Drive!) Part 3

Derek from Vice Grip Garage has been working hard on cars and trucks of all kinds this year, but this one here is pretty special for a variety of reasons. First off, it’s a 1967 GTO that has been...

Fluffy’s 1969 Chevelle SS Featured: Comedian Gabriel Iglesias Went To Barrett Jackson To Sell Cars, And Ended Up With A New One

If you aren’t familiar with comedian Gabriel Iglesias then you must live under a rock. What everyone might not know is that Gabriel, aka Fluffy, is a car enthusiast who has some pretty good...