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FREE DRAG RACING LIVESTREAM: The Spring Fling Million! Big Money Bracket Races From Las Vegas – $30,000 Saturday!

It’s time to finish off the Spring Fling Million in Las Vegas, after one heck of a Million Dollar Friday!!!! It’s that time of year folks, when the country’s big dollar bracket racers head...

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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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FREE DRAG RACING LIVESTREAM: The Spring Fling Million Dollar Main Event! Big Money Bracket Races From Las Vegas – Million Dollar Friday!

It’s Million Dollar Friday!!!! It’s that time of year folks, when the countries big dollar bracket racers head to Vegas for one of the biggest big-money bracket races in the world, the Spring...

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$43,000 to Win!!! Cleetus’ AWD vs RWD Shootout At Bradenton Motorsports Park was INTENSE, Fun, And Surprising! Who Took It All?

When Cleetus first put up the challenge to pit the best two wheel drive no prep rides up against the best all wheel drive no prep rides, the world lost its mind. The arguing, smack talk, bragging,...

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Stories N’ Steel: Rick Lefever – From a small town to becoming one of the countries most sought after fabricators.

Our friend Brad King, an amazing pinstriper and letterer, is back with another Stories N’ Steel episode where he is interviewing another legend of the hot rodding world. This time it’s...

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ROAD TRIP GOLD with David Freiburger and an AMAZING SURVIVOR 1961 Plymouth Belvedere

Man these cars are something. Ugly? Kinda. Weird? Absolutely. 100% Mopar? You ain’t kidding. There is something about the 1950s to mid 1960s Mopars that makes them really stand out. Styling...

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Is This One Of The Sickest 1952 GMC Trucks On The Planet? Wickam Sure Thinks So, Is He Right?

(Words by Charles Wickam) Tre 5 Customs is known for building some of the cleanest trucks on the west coast. Located in the suburbs of Phoenix AZ, they have been impacting the western states’...

Classic Mini Cooper Race Car Build: Building A New Rear Subframe Mount Plus A Bonus Video!

Now that the cage and everything inside the Mini is where it is supposed to be, it is time to make sure the rear subframe will also be up to the task of holding on around corners. The factory...

Finnegan Takes Wifey’s Boat To Hot Rod Boat Heaven And Flogs The Crap Out Of It!

The first actual weekend of family boating for this bad boy is right here! This is going to be fun. Watch and Mike hauls the boat, all by himself, all the way to Arizona from Georgia so that the...

Building A Demo Derby Car For A 13 Year Old Girl, And Then Watching Her Smash Up The Competition!

When I was a kid I called Demo Derbys Crash Up Derbys. I don’t know why, or where it came from, but the real term is Demolition Derby. With that said, most of the folks I know that participate...

Is A Classic Fiat 500 The Perfect In Town Car For An Electric Conversion?

There are a lot of little European cars from the 1950s through 1970s, and even into the 1980s that are super small and featured engines that made WAY less than 100 horsepower. So while they are cool,...

Columbus Goodguys Show Photos: They Just Keep Coming, More Bitchin Rides To Check Out!

Here’s Mike’s tenth gallery of photos from the show, and if you missed the previous photos you can click the link below to check them all out. We’ve still got a ton more photo...

Ride Along In A Thundering Big Block (Real) Greenwood Corvette As It Laps Daytona At Night

While the road going Corvettes of the 1970s were largely weak sauce, there was at least one bright burning light in the Corvette world and that light was emanating from the shop of John Greenwood who...

LS Corvair Project: Turbo Is In, So Are A Bunch Of Other Parts, And The Cooling System Is Up For The Transverse Mounted LS3

This project continues to impress and inspire and we love it! Check out all the cool stuff going down in this episode of the build, because this car just keeps getting more trick. The turbo is in,...

Polishing Turds: Episode #8 Porting Cylinder Heads For More Flow And More POWER!!!

In this new episode of the Polishing Turds series from HED you are going to see the ins and outs of porting cylinder heads. We aren’t talking CNC porting here, we’re talking Peter Harrell...

Bonneville Speed Week Photos: More From The Famed Nugget Car Show!

(Photos by Wes Allison) Every year, Bonneville Speed Week is kicked off with the Wendover Nevada Nugget Car Show, and anyone and everyone is there to hang out, check out cool cars, and enjoy a few...

Budget Harbor Freight Off-Road Trailer Build. Episode 3. Building Doors!

This trailer may have started life as a cheap Harbor Freight unit, but it certainly is starting to look like something more at this point. And that’s what I love about these little trailer...

Small Town Car Show Tour Photos: Our Final Photo Gallery From The Royal Coachmen’s Car Show

Here is our final gallery from the Coachmen’s Car Show! Last summer, Scott Liggett brought us pictures from some of the car shows he hit up in the small towns near his home in Nebraska. And...

Stadium Super Trucks Nashville Race 1 – Cleetus’ Truck Got WRECKED… So Much Carnage!!!

We feature a lot of Stadium Super Truck racing around here and love the action and fun that these off-road trucks bring to the fans while racing on pavement on road courses. It’s a riot to...

Who Makes Best The Hose Clamp? Let’s Settle This! Ideal, Precision, Koehler, Norma, Skandvik, Mishimoto, Breeze, and More!

How do you find out who makes the best hose clamps? Easy, y0u buy 16 different brands and put them all through a series of tests to see which ones suck and which ones are great, figuring that there...