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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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The Greatest Racing Exploit Of All Time? Superbirds And Daytonas. Don’t Hate The Player, Hate The Game.

Daytonas and Superbirds were the cars that ultimately changed NASCAR forever. Yes, Ford had some swoopy cars that had very subtle aerodynamic changes that they put in place to try and not get too...

In The 1970’s, When You Built Bike Ramps From Scraps, We Were All Evel Knie

If you were a kid and got a bicycle, you were probably trying to figure out how to get airborne with your two wheeled transport. If you grew up before the 1980’s when bikes were being designed...

Vintage Drag Video: Here’s The 1974 IHRA Southern Nationals From Pit Road At Charlotte Motor Speedway

Sometimes you just have to try something to see if it works, right? In 1974 the IHRA did just that, renting the pit road at the expansive Charlotte Motor Speedway and turning it into a national event...

Neither Here Nor There: The 2022 Ford Equator Won’t Be Sold In The USA, But Is It A Sneak Preview Of Things To Come?

(By Tom Lohnes) – Have you ever looked at a Ford Explorer and thought “This doesn’t look enough like a Nissan”? Well, move to China and you’ll have your needs met by the 2022 Ford...

Goodguys Summit Racing Nationals Photo Coverage: The Big One In Ohio Lived Up To The Hype Again!

(Photos by Wes Allison) – Now THIS is good stuff. The Goodguys series of car shows and events across the country is filled with big happenings, huge gatherings, and fun times. That’s...

Epic Watch: The Life Of Mr 4-Speed – A Multi-Part Documentary On The Incredible Life Of Herb McCandless

This is something you simply have to see. “The Life of Mr. 4-Speed” is a multi-part, professionally produced documentary about the life and times of the man himself, Herb McCandless. This...

Tom Sez: Our 14 Year Old Scribe Talks About The Recent EV Announcement By Dodge!

(By Tom Lohnes) – Dodge has just teased their first EV, and it looks like they carried all of the muscle from the Charger and Challenger into a battery-electric package perfectly. We don’t...

Long Island Got A Drag Strip: Action Set To Begin Next Month At NHRA-Sanctioned Calverton Executive Airpark Course

It has been a battle fought so hard, for so very long, but in the end there’s a sweet victory. Long Island has been without a drag racing facility for 17 years and thanks to the dogged...

Video Of Rob Wendland Front Halfing Larry Dixon’s Top Fuel Dragster: Sounds Simple, But It All Has To Be Perfect!

It isn’t uncommon for Top Fuel and Top Alcohol cars to get front halfed after a certain number of runs, a crash, big wheelstands, or what have you. The same could be said for a Funny Car...

Here Are The Top 10 Shootout Runs From The Goodwood Festival Of Speed

Goodwood’s Shootout happened yesterday, but if you missed any of it then here are the 10 Quickest Runs, all in one video. This is an event we would love to go to, as it is a must attend...

What Should You Paint Your Roll Bar Or Roll Cage With? Rustoleum, Hammertone, And Steel-It Tested

There is nothing worse than finishing a car with a roll bar or roll cage in it and then not being able to paint the cage well. In all honesty, a tube chassis car is usually much easier because you...

Watch Jerry Eckman and Bob Glidden Battle In The Pro Stock Finals Of The 1989 NHRA Mile High Nationals

If you go back in the history books looking for results from the 1988 NHRA Mile High Nationals you will not find them. Instead you’ll find a blank spot and things kicking back up again with the...

Grinding Inside Corner Welds Isn’t Hard, But It Is Easy To Mess Up!q

Grinding seems like a pretty simple thing, especially when it comes to prepping a joint for welding or grinding a weld smooth. With that said, I’ve seen jillions of people do it wrong and the...

The Goodwood Festival Of Speed Is LIVE Right Here Right Now!

Check this out! If you haven’t ever seen the Goodwood Festival of Speed, then you have been missing out. But this event gets better and better each year, with more and more coverage and...