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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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It’s Time For Buckeye Skips 2026! We’ve Got Photos Starting With Day 0 Right Here! Who Showed Up, and Who Are The Favorites?

(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 0, when everyone shows up...

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More 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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Australian Drag and Drive Machine! This 1400hp HQ Ute was Built to Survive Drag Challenge. Street and Strip Greatness!

The Aussies are something special when it comes to hot rods, race cars, and especially their street strip machines. With all the restrictions they have on what you can do to a car or truck over...

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John Jackson visits Squeeg’s Kustoms: Shop Tour, Projects, an insane Dodge A100, and photographing the America’s Most Beautiful Roadster!

After missing it for a couple of years, it was good to be back at the Grand National Roadster Show in Pomona in 2025. It was especially cool because the field of cars that were in contention for...

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Loren Healy and the El Bandito Ford Bronco Take First in Ultra4 USA at the Pikes Peak International Hill Climb! Race Day Onboard 2026

Loren Healy is no stranger to going fast, no matter what he’s driving, but he’s most at home behind the wheel of his Ultra 4 Bronco in the dirt. So what made him want to take the El...

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Finnegan’s Garage: BIGGEST FUEL CELL THEY’VE EVER BUILT AND IT’S FOR WIFEY’S 1,600HP TWIN-TURBO JET BOAT!

Video Description: In Episode 197 of Mike Finnegan’s Garage, I jump back into the 21ft Eliminator Daytona twin turbo jet boat project. There’s lots of content about this one because my...

In The Realm Of Publicity Stunts, Floating A Farm Tractor On Your Ag Tires Is Pretty Darned Good

We consider ourselves to be the world experts in the failure of floating large objects in bodies of water. We have shown you almost every documented case of monster trucks and other vehicles heading...

Plastic Fantastic Video: Watch This Visible V8 Engine Spin To Over 7,000 RPM – The Sound Is INCREDIBLE

Hey we all have our automotive passions, right? As it turns out there is one guy on YouTube pretty much obsessed with taking a little plastic Visible V8 engine and hot rodding it to see exactly how...

Take A Ride On Top Of A Zoomie Piped, Big Block Chevy Lawn Mower! Big Speed

My old lawn tractor now serves as a slow go-kart for my two young sons. With no mower deck and a five speed manual transmission, they can zip around the back yard at speeds that are fast enough to...

More Aggression Needed: Proof That The Thunderbird And Cougar Needed More Engine

By all accounts, the MN-12 Ford Thunderbird and Mercury Cougar were duds overall. We aren’t calling them bad cars…they are comfortable, they will eat up miles well, and they are one of...

I Now Pronounce You Bronco And Cadillac: Junkyard Digs’ First Trar Revival!

Both Chad and I don’t have the greatest relationships with 1980s era Cadillacs. The short, sweet story? We both understand that for all the fluff and gingerbread, Cadillacs were one part...

Classic YouTube: Road & Track’s 1995 Fastest Cars In America Competition

When you are a twelve-year-old gearhead in the making, all that matters is speed. It doesn’t matter how it’s made, it doesn’t matter how it gets to the ground. Vmax speed is the...

Iron Trap’s 1934 Ford Coupe “Beautiful” Has A New Engine And Is Ready To Drive!!

Video 1 Description: In the last update on “Beautiful” we found out the 59ab we had planned on putting in as a replacement had a cracked block. The engine appeared to be totally rebuilt...

Getting Lucky! MYSTERY Small Block Chevy Engine Identified

(Words and Video by Tommy Lee Byrd aka The Hot Rod Hoarder) This Mystery engine intrigued me from the moment I realized it was part of a package deal with my $500 Nova. Decoding an old engine is...

Half Ass Kustoms 1951 Ford Pickup Project: First Fire Of The LS, Trans Tunnel Fab, And More! Part 10

Here is Part 10 of the 1951 Ford Project. Finishing up the wiring, making this thing actually run, and then filling the giant hole in the floor that needs to cover the transmission. Plus all kinds of...

Flying Sparks Power Tour Prep Continues: Day 3 Bronco Prep Is Right Here!

Emily and Aaron are continuing to work on the Bronco to get it ready for Power Tour and that means a new video every day for all of us to enjoy. Here is Part 2. The good news is that they drive the...

FREE LIVE Drag Racing: VMP’s Triple Threat Bracket Series

It’s the final day for the Triple Threat Bracket races at VMP! Video Description: If you liked it last year during their inaugural season, you’re gonna love this years Triple Threat...

Not So Simple: The Restoration Of This Level From the 1870s Is An Amazing Amount Of Work

Isn’t it interesting that things which sometimes appear to be really simple are actually really complicated and test all of our abilities to get them to where we want them to be? Such is the...

Small and Forgotten: The 1990 Isuzu Impulse Was A Strange Looking Little Thing

It’s always interesting when you can look back on a car 30 years after it was new. You can really use hindsight to see why things worked, why some things didn’t, and why a machine like...