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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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Awesome 2021 Syracuse Nationals Photo Coverage: Proof That You Cannot Keep A Good Show Down!

(Photos by Mike Brooks) – While things are not totally “normal” as we remember them to be in 2019, they are a lot closer than they were last year. That includes the ability to...

Peeking In The Petersen: Check Out These Images of The Coolest Cars Inside The Petersen Automotive Museum

(Photos by Wes Allison) – The Petersen Automotive Museum is the largest piece of Robert E Petersen’s lasting legacy on the American landscape. The place is incredible and having seen it...

Electrified Dirt: The AUDI RS-Q E-Tron Is Going To Attack Dakar In A Way No One Else Has Ever Tried

(By Tom Lohnes) – The first all-electric (sort of) entrant in the Dakar rally for 2022, the AUDI RS-Q E-Tron is here to kick some tail while polluting significantly less than the average...

Hotted up Hyundai: The Upcoming 2022 Hyundai Elantra N Looks Like A Budget Minded Performance Sedan

(By Tom Lohnes) – Hot on the heels of the Hyundai Veloster being discontinued for the 2022 model year, Hyundai reveals the awesome Elantra N sports sedan. Does it make up for the Veloster?...

Wine Is For Winners: Watch The Final Round Runs From The 2021 NHRA Sonoma Nationals!

The second stop of the NHRA’s 32nd Western Swing was Sonoma Raceway last weekend and it was one hell of a race. The fans were out in force, the racers brought the high hard one, and only one...

Inside Out: What To Do To Rustproof The INSIDE Of Your Frame Rails!

I’ve had several chassis and subframes sand blasted or chemically stripped and powder coated over the years, and it is a great way to finish up a chassis. But there are some downsides too. If...

Photos: Here’s Our Last Blast Of Photos Of The Cars Competing At UMI’s Autocross Challenge In Pennsylvania

This is it, the last gallery of competitors from the UMI Autocross Challenge at UMI Motorsports Park in Clearfield Pennsylvania. If you missed any of them, don’t worry there are links below so...

Photos: SoCal Hot Rods, Customs, Muscle Cars, Trucks, And More From The Quarantine Cruise

(Photos by Wes Allison) We told you we had a bunch of great photos from the Quarantine Cruise this month, and we weren’t kidding. Wes was on site getting both parked and rolling shots as well...

Awesome Images: Ed Iskenderian’s 100th birthday At Bruce Meyer’s American Car Cruise-In!

(Photos by Wes Allison) – Ed Iskenderian recently turned 100 years old and frankly, the guy shows no signs of slowing down. Because reaching triple digits is an incredible feat of human...

McLeod Racing Welcomes Will Baty “Mr. Clutch” as Off-Road and R&D Specialist 

The high performance aftermarket is like any other industry in the world when it comes to doing business the right way. You have to have good products, good processes, and good people to succeed. The...

There May Be A Red Bull Hypercar Coming – A Hybrid That Uses F1 Technology To Scorch The Asphalt

(By Tom Lohnes) – After Redbull racing’s successful collaboration with Aston Martin and their bonkers Valkyrie hypercar, they’ve been playing around with the idea of making their own road...

Spy Video: The C8 Z06 Has Some Amazing Engineering Under It – Exotic Materials, Big Performance?

(By Tom Lohnes) – A few days after Chevy released official exhaust clips of their new Corvette ZO6, a very sneaky spy has gotten up close and personal with the car. He saw some pretty...

Just Weird Enough: The 1987 Volvo 780 Coupe Was The Start Of A Small Selling Swedish-Italian Experiment

The success of Volvo’s 700 series of cars cannot be denied. Over the course of a decade from the 1980s into the 1990s they sold millions of them all over the world. But there’s one...

Freak Show: This Video Shows The Weirdest Experimental Aircraft Of The 1920s, 1930s, and Earlier!

When it comes to the mechanical achievements of mankind, the achievement of heavier than air flight has been one of the most profound. Just think of how reliant we are in so many aspects of life on...