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Dakar Rally 2026 Coverage: Stage 9 Racing Action! The Dunes, The Rocks, And The Mountains Try To Knock Them All Out!

It’s Stage 9, and after running hundreds of miles through the desert on Stages 7 AND 8, there’s a few hundred more in store for all these racers as they get into Day 3 of the 2nd Week of Dakar....

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Are These The Weirdest Monster Trucks Ever Produced: Taking A Look At Monster Jam Trucks, Big Foot Trucks, And More!

I’m old enough to remember when Monster Trucks just ran over parked cars, and didn’t fly through the air. Hell, back then nobody would have ever imagined they would be doing backflips and...

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The Best Rolex 24 at Daytona Finishes of All Time! IMSA Shares Their Favorite Finishes Of All Time!

IMSA’s Rolex 24 Hours at Daytona is coming up in just over a week, with the Roar Before the 24 coming this weekend. If you aren’t familiar with everything that goes on during the month of...

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Larry Chen’s 240Z Final Gets Much Needed Suspension and Interior Upgrades, Plus Other Cool Stuff!

Larry Chen has some fun rides, but his 240z is “the one”. What I mean by that is that this is his forever car, the one that will never get sold and sent on its way to a new home. Larry...

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King of the Hammers 2026 Is Coming! Watch Hammertown Come Together With This Streaming Camera From Johnson Valley.

That’s right, it’s January and that means that King of the Hammers is coming! King of the Hammers 2026 officially starts on January 22nd and will continue for more than two weeks. It...

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Dakar Rally 2026 Coverage: Stage 8 Racing Action! Why Not Add A Few Hundred More Miles Through The Dunes!

It’s Stage 8, and after running hundreds of miles through the desert on Stage 7, there’s a few hundred more in store for all these racers as they get into Day 2 of the 2nd Week of Dakar. This...

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Hemi Find: This 1964 426 Hemi Seems To Have Lived A Good Life – Amazing Engine For A Super Stock Restoration

There’s a small problem with small run, ultra-high performance factory engines, especially those involved in racing. The issue is the fact that very few survive as they were all beaten to a...

Video: Funny Car Racer Jack Wyatt Built His First Drag Car Before He Was Old Enough To Drive It! Watch His Story!

Now this right here is a classic story. Jack Wyatt who has been a well known funny car racer for decades now had an awesome start in drag racing. As a mechanically inclined, scrappy, and unstoppable...

Video: A Mustang, A Firebird, and An RV Walk Into A Tuff Truck Competition And All Race!

Ok, well they did not walk into the SAME Tuff Truck competition but the all did race and the videos below are total proof of that face. You are going to see a Fox-body Mustang get hammered so hard it...

This Rad Vintage GMC Prerunner Is An Epic Use Of Suspension, Wrapped In Attitude, And Powered By A Blown Small Block.

The 1941-1947 Chevrolet and “GMC” trucks were often referred to as the Art Deco trucks, and I doubt anyone who helped coin the phrase ever thought one would end up looking like this. I...

Classic Instruments Performance Gauges Do More Than Display Info. They Talk To Your Favorite Data Loggers And EFI Systems And More.

Performance gauges are something every hot rodder wants to install in their street machine or muscle car from the time they first start dreaming up a build plan. Everyone has at some point wanted to...

Public Service Announcement: If You Own A 2007-2014 GM Truck or SUV You’ve Got An Airbag Recall To Take Care Of

(By Tom Lohnes) – Attention owners of 2007-2014 GM trucks and SUVs, your vehicle may be entitled to a recall. With faulty Takata airbags, every GM Truck and SUV produced between 2007 and 2014...

They’re Back: JOHN FORCE RACING TO MAKE NHRA CAMPING WORLD SERIES DEBUT

In the biggest off-season news yet for NHRA drag racing fans, John Force Racing has announced their imminent return to competition starting at the Amalie Oil NHRA Gatornationals in Florida which will...

NHRA Insider: A Pro Modified Legend Talks About His Career and Our Inside Man Spills The Beans

On this episode of the NHRA Insider Mike Janis and Kevin McKenna join Brian Lohnes. Janis was recently told by doctors that his hall of fame pro-modified driving career was at an end but Mike is not...

The FTI Performance Gen 3 XPM Billet Bolt Together Torque Converter Line Is Gnarly!

This is big news for those drag racers out there who are running a high horsepower combo and backing their engine with a torque converter. FTI Performance Introduces the Gen 3 XPM Billet Bolt...

Phil MacDougall Named New Executive Director Of The National Automobile Museum In Nevada

The National Automobile Museum in Sparks Nevada has a storied past and rich history that started with the famed Harrah’s car collection, and has become one of the top automobile museums in the...

Unimog vs The World! Can Anything Else At King Of The Hammers Keep Up With This Thing?

We’ve been following a Unimog Expedition vehicle build on here recently, and I have repeatedly said how much I dig them. They are amazingly utilitarian but also incredibly trick in how they...

Shaun Bought A 325 Hp 396 1968 El Camino That Has Been Sitting For 11 Years And Like Everyone On The Internet Is Seeing What It Will Take To Run

Everybody on YouTube seems to be finding old cars and then attempting to make them run. It makes me laugh because I’ve been telling people for decades that unless an engine is actually seized,...

Mitsubishi Is Bringing A New Outlander – Can a Bottom Dollar SUV Save The Ship Here In America?

(By Tom Lohnes) – With the new Outlander, the first all-new Mitsubishi since 2009’s Lancer and Evolution X, Mitsubishi hopes to attract some buyers who previously left the brand for better...

Who In Their Right Mind Would Bolt A Carburetor Onto The Top Of A TPI Intake Manifold?

The answer is… Richard Holdener, that’s who. Why? Why not is really the better question. Richard is always in search of data and information, and what better way to test whether a large...