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ROAD TRIP GOLD! Freiburger Highlights Abandoned Places and Americana From His 1968 Ford Galaxie Road Trip!

Freiburger loves a road trip. I’ve been fortunate enough to be on several with him over the years, and he’s the king of a side trip and of just following wherever the trip takes you. He...

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Check Out The NEW GMT800/NBS GM Truck 5&6 Speed Manual TransmissioConversions From American Powertrain!

That’s right folks, American Powertrain just dropped their New Body Style GMT800 stick shift swap kits! Available with a 5-speed Tremec TKX or a 6-speed Tremec Magnum, these kits make your...

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Funny Car Chaos Set To Kick Off 2026 Season With Back-to-Back 32 Car Showcases! It’s A Funny Car Extravaganza!

We’ve got big news coming out of the Funny Car Chaos camp as they are kicking off the 2026 season with TWO big Funny Car shows you won’t want to miss. With 32 cars battling it out at BOTH...

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Here’s Our Final Gallery From The Drag Racing Showcase at the I-24 Lebanon Dragfest 2026

We’ve shared three of Joe’s great photo galleries so far, but we’ve got the final one left right here! If you missed the previous galleries, use the link below to check them all out...

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Buyer Beware! 1/3 Of The $500 Worth Of Spark Plugs Tested Were Counterfeit! Order Your Plugs From Someone Legit!

I’ve heard about counterfeit tools a lot in the last few years. Stuff that looks like DeWalt or Milwaukee, but that is just a cheap fake. And some that even say the brand name on them! Hell,...

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NOSTALGIA TOP FUEL DRAGSTER ELIMINATIONS FROM THE 2026 MARCH MEET! FRONT ENGINE DRAGSTER GREATNESS!

While we still wish we were livestreaming the March Meet at Famoso, we are super grateful that the Monday Morning Racer was on hand to shoot all the action so we can still check it out and share it....

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Win A Complete Set Of Wheels From Holley! You Pick Them, They Ship Them!

That’s right, along with just about every other part you need to build a car, the guys at Holley have wheels now! In fact they have wheels for all kinds of cars and trucks in all kinds of...

B. FORCE, DEJORIA, ANDERSON AND GLADSTONE TAKE NO. 1 SPOTS AT NHRA FOUR-WIDE NATIONALS AT ZMAX DURING Q1

Here’s the results of Pro Qualifying during the NHRA 4-Wide Nationals in Charlotte Friday night. NHRA sent out the results, including provisional number one qualifiers, and we’ll see if...

Old Gray Mare: Can This Cobra II Be Brought Back To Life? Should It Be Brought Back To Life?

It’s a funny thing, that whole circularity deal. Earlier tonight, I woke up the Great Pumpkin Mustang’s wheezing 4.2L V8 and drove it into town for it’s quarterly fuel-up and...

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Hillbilly Nationals Demolition Drag Racing Video You Have To See To Believe

I still can’t get over the fact that this is going on at dragstrips around the country, because it just seems like it would be so much work to clean up, but it surely is. What is it though?...

Which LS Intake Is The Best? Cheap Truck Intake Or Big Money Brands?

Sometimes cheap is good. Sometimes expensive is better. But which one is better when it comes to LS Intake manifolds? Can the factory GM truck manifold that came on a jillion LS engines keep up with...

The American Powertrain Parting Shift: In-Car Video of a Dude Grabbing Gears With the Wheels Up

This is some totally fantastic stuff. We’ve shown lots of in-car video of dudes wailing on manual transmissions before but this may be a new level of cool. This ace gear jammer grabs second...

Antron Brown, Bob Tasca III, Greg Anderson & Scotty Pollacheck Win 40th And Final Lucas Oil NHRA Southern Nationals!

(Photos by Mike Burghardt and Jeff Burghardt) — Antron Brown couldn’t have dreamed of a better way to close out the famed Atlanta Dragway on Sunday, becoming the winningest Top Fuel driver at...

Our Pottstown Cruise Night Photos Continue! More Street Machines, Muscle, Drag Cars, And Trucks

(Photos and Words by Joe Grippo) The small borough of Pottstown, Pennsylvania has rich history of the all-American activity of car cruising. Dating back to the 1960’s, several nights a week the...

RockyNats 2021 Video: Burnouts, Rev Limiters, Cruises And More. And That’s Just Day One!

The Aussies sure know how to have a good time, and RockyNats proves it. Like most of their big shows, there is tons of car show going on, lots of cruising, and epic burnouts happening each and every...

Ford Godzilla 7.3 Supercharger Testing: This Thing Is A Beast!

These Ford Godzilla engines make big power stock, and we’ve heard of lots of dyno shops making 550 horsepower on the engine dyno in stock form other than headers and a tune. That’s stout...

Timers: Here’s How A Top Fuel Clutch Knows When To Do What It Does

Top Fuel Dragsters and Funny Cars have just one “speed”, or gear. There is no transmission, just a clutch in front of the driveshaft that drives the rear wheels. It is direct drive....

How To Take A Pile Of Scrap Parts And Make Them Into A Hot Rod: Making A 5 Window Essex Coupe

I have a few YouTube channels that I watch regularly, and Halfass Kustoms is one of them. This channel epitomizes the work on it for an hour every day and stuff gets done mantra. Working a fulltime...

Big Swap, Big Speed, Big Money: This Ferrari Testarossa Has A 500hp Honda K24 Engine In It!

(By Tom Lohnes) – The Ferrari Testarossa, a dream car to 80’s kids and even some today, is without a doubt one of history’s most iconic cars to date. Well, it’s coming back, with a more...

There’s A New Subaru-Toyota Team Up Coming And It’s Called Solterra – Interesting Joint Venture

(By Tom Lohnes) – Do you want a Subaru that was co-developed by Toyota? No, it isn’t an 86, it’s an electric SUV. Called the Solterra, this new Subaru-only SUV is currently being developed...