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Will These Replica Classic Car Bodies Reshape The Car Industry? Juncheng Vehicle Co. Is Replicating Icons In China

Several years ago the restoration body parts business went to a whole new place when companies started offering complete bodies for our favorite American classics. 1969 Camaros were one of the first,...

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Use This 3 Step Secret to GLASS FLAT Paint! Kevin Tetz Shares Decades Of Experience That Will Make Your Paint Job A Success

We’ve shared plenty of Kevin Tetz videos over the years around here, and I can tell you that Kevin sure knows what he’s talking about. The number of TV and YouTube personalities that have...

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SUPPORT SURGES FOR LENO’S LAW AS CAR CULTURE DEMANDS COLLECTOR’S RIGHTS: Letters Pour in from California’s Lowrider Community and International Car Rreservationists in support of California SB 1392

We’ve talked about California SB 1392 in the past, and are thrilled that despite not making it to a vote in 2025, the bi-partisan group of California law makers who support it are still pushing...

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How To Fab Headers: Follow Along As The Iron Trap Garage Crew Build Custom Stainless Headers For The Ardun Powered 1933 3 Window!!

Headers are one of those fabrication projects that seem to intimidate a lot of people, and for good reason. If you go at them from the wrong direction, don’t have a game plan in place to start...

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Steve Magnante’s Daily Junkyard Crawl: THIS RARE FIREBIRD FORMULA 350 HAS HAD A HOD ROD LIFE! COME SAVE IT!

It’s time for another Daily Junkyard Crawl with Steve Magnante, and this time it’s another really cool Pontiac. How about a real deal 1987 Pontiac Firebird Formula 350 that has had a few good go...

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Wild Ride at the May 2026 El Mirage California SCTA Meet – The Spirit of AutoPower III Comp Coupe Hits A Bump at 228 MPH!

The Spirit of Autopower Comp Coupe is a pretty radical machine, and a staple in the land speed racing community. This thing is based off a little tiny first generation Honda Civic, but the rest is...

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NHRA Photos: Funny Cars, Funny Cars, And More Funny Cars. Plus Header Flames Galore!

(Photos by Wes Allison) Nitro is a riot to watch at night, and especially when it lights up the sides of a nitro burning Funny Car like the ones pictured in our gallery below. This is the first...

Abandoned Race Track Project: Tire Smoke, Tractors, A Turbo LS Swapped Lincoln, And The “Love Shack”

There is a lot of work going on to get this place up and running, but we love that they are also having a little fun in between. After all, you have to stay motivated. Yeah, that’s it. We call...

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BangShift Project Power Laggin’ Update: Fixing Our Fuel System Before We Go Atomic!

Welcome back to our coverage of Project Power Laggin’! Follow along as we take a tired 1979 Dodge W150 Power Wagon we found in Central Maine and transform it from a derelict roadside attraction to...

Alex Taylor’s Quest For The 6’s 1955 Chevy Project Is Legal! They Got Their NHRA Chassis Cert!

No amount of thrashing will get you on the race track legally unless you’ve got an NHRA Chassis Certification. The car doesn’t have to be completely finished in order to get inspected and...

LS Swap Cruise Control Made Simple! Use Factory Parts To Add Cruise Control To Your LS Swapped Ride

Cruise control is a nice thing to have in your car or truck, but it isn’t always easy to do in your hot rod or truck that has had a late-model engine swap. For years we’ve used the Dakota...

Sheet Metal Tech: How To Bead Roll 2 STYLES of Door Panels!! Quilted Diamonds & Scales!!

Aluminum door panels can be super cool looking on hot rods, race cars, street machines, and trucks alike. From simple to complex, we’ve seen all kinds of them on all kinds of applications. The...

NHRA Photos: NHRA Top Fuel Action Photos From The 2021 NHRA Winternationals In Pomona!

(Photos by Wes Allison) Top Fuel is something special when you’ve got header flames shooting ten feet in the air. There really isn’t anything like it anywhere else. Thankfully, Wes was on...

Throwing Down Old School: This Chevy Opala Has An Inline Six, Webers, and Manual Transmission (Video)

It may not be the quickest way, it may not be the trickest way, but putting an old school hot rod together like this one is by far the coolest way to go racing. The Brazilian Chevy Opala that is...

More Texas Heat Wave Truck Show Photos: Mini Trucks, Full Sizes, Classics, And More!

We shared two galleries of photos from Texas Heat Wave so far and we’ve still got one more for you to check out this week. I love the fact that custom truck shows allow you to see such variety....

Ron Capps, Leah Pruett, Greg Stanfield And Matt Smith Close Out Hot Racing Action At Too Hot Pomona Winternationals!

    (Photos by Mike & Jeff Burghardt) – If I told you it was hot at the annual Lucas Oil NHRA Winternationals at Auto Club Raceway at Pomona, it was hotter for the drivers and...

The F-Bomb Project Is Getting Close To Done! Finishing The Fuselage With Ron Covell

Ron is continuing to piece this project together, and in this video he finished making the complete fuselage by building an interesting piece that is pretty simple actually and insures that each end...

Gasser Spotlight: This 1948 Austin Gasser is a Stack-Injected Big-Block-Powered Monster in a Miniature Package

This all-steel 1948 Austin is super rad, and is referred to as the “Bare Metal Brute” for good reason. John Verde owns this thing and built it because his father had one way back in the...

Pump Gas Power: Can You Make 900 Reliable Horsepower, On Pump Gas, With A Blown Big Block Chevrolet?

Big power has never been easier to make, but that doesn’t mean that all of the crazy power can be made reliably. Certainly, there is so much new technology helping out, but that isn’t...

Mike Finnegan Had No Plans On Filming During His Vacation: And Then His Junk Broke…

When you are Mike Finnegan, and decide you are taking your wife and kids to the river for a family vacation, where you can run Game Over up and down the river among your people, it shouldn’t...