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Route 66 to The SEMA Show 2025: How A First-Year Road Trip Turned into Something Bigger Than Anyone Expected

(Words and Photos by Cole Quinnell, Photos by Patrick Hill) There are roads that get you somewhere, and then there are roads that mean something. Route 66 is firmly in the second category. It’s not...

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FREE LIVE Drag Racing From The 11th Annual New Year Nationals At Bradenton Motorsports Park – Monday

There are only a couple of races happening before the clock strikes midnight on Sunday to ring in the new year and while we’re sure 2026 is going to be awesome, 2025 isn’t done yet! Our last big...

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Tony Angelo Gave All His Guys CORVETTES For Their CHRISTMAS BONUS! You Will Want To See This!

I’m a big fan of a good Christmas bonus, but I’ve never known anyone that got a Corvette for theirs! Have you? When I was at Tony’s shop a couple of months ago we were eating pizza...

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Have You Ever Wondered How They Clean And Flush A Radiator? This Cool Video Shows The Whole Process.

When I lived in Southern California, we used Victor’s Radiator Service, an awesome radiator shop that we used all the time to clean and reseal radiators. They also cleaned and resealed heater...

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NEW WORLD RECORD! This VW 20VT Powered Bantam Altered Breaks Into the 6s At Santa Pod!

Water-cooled VWs may not have the same sex appeal as a vintage air-cooled VW does, but they are still really capable and racers have been pushing them to their limits in all kinds of ways for...

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Street Weekend Drag and Drive 2025 – The Movie! Racing Action From England’s Second Drag and Drive

With the success of Hot Rod Drag Week, which started in 2005, other Drag and Drive events started popping up around the world. While nobody in the United States wanted to put one on in the early...

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Mark Williams CV Driveshaft Assemblies for Shorty Powerglide Are Strong, Smooth, and Tested!

There are loads of applications where short driveshafts are required and frankly, there are better options than universal joints in those places. Mark Williams Enterprises knows this and that is why...

Money No Object: 1959 Chevrolet Impala – The Blower Always Wins!

Not one word about how nitrous or turbochargers are better. You know damn well what I mean when I say the blower always wins. It’s not a matter of performance. It’s a matter of looks, of...

Wrong Motions: What Was the Issue With Three-Wheelers That Made Them Safety Targets?

I didn’t understand the drama with three-wheelers when I started reading into the story. I had several Honda ATCs back in the day, years before I could come close to even driving around in a...

Goldbrick: Ringing The New Year In By Nuking Tires Off In A Chrysler Cordoba

How quickly were you ready to put last year into the rear view mirror? Well…let’s just say this: If we weren’t already in the middle of one gigantic headache over the last few...

Revival Gone Wrong: This Bronco Did Not Want To Wake Up For Anybody!

For years now I’ve followed the exploits of Kevin and his fascination with bringing abandoned, unloved vehicles to life. For the most part, every one of his rigs has ended with some kind of...

This DIY Rotary Welding Table Is Cool And Inspiring. It Would Be Fun To Have One In The Shop

You don’t always need a rotary welding table, but when you do there is nothing like it to make welding all around a part easier or cleaner. You can buy them for a lot of money or a little, but...

How To Build Your Own Carbon Fiber Roof Part 2: Removing The Steel Roof And Installing The New Carbon Roof

When we saw the Speed Academy gang building a carbon fiber roof for their classic 1977 Celica, we were intrigued. And the process was cool as hell. If you missed it, CLICK HERE TO SEE THEM MOLD IT...

How Strong Is It Really? Will This Giant Press Be Able To Smash This Steel Hammer?

I don’t know why we have such an infatuation with seeing stuff getting smashed, but there is something cool as hell about putting something in a press and then squashing it to see what will...

The Currie Garage Gang Gets To Hop A 1964 Impala Lowrider! I’m So Jealous!

I grew up in Northern California, in an area where Latino and Chicano culture was big and their car scene was all about lowriders and bombs. I grew up as a drag racer and muscle car guy but always...

Here’s How To Build Your Own Custom Plate Bumper Without Too Many Fancy Tools

Building customs bumpers can be a daunting task if you want something that fits nice, looks like it belongs, and is built tough enough to be useful. If you just want to cut a piece of pipe and weld...

The New Year Nationals Are LIVE! The Final Race Of 2020 And The First Bracket Race Of The 2021 Season All In One!

2020 can suck it, but we are welcoming 2021 with open arms with hope that it will be everything 2020 wasn’t. But we can’t think of a better way to send 2020 packing and welcome 2021, than...

This Killer 1955 Chevy Truck Is Mounted On A 4-Ton 4×4 Military Truck Chassis That Can Haul Anything You Want

Classic trucks are cool. Military trucks are cool. But when you mix the two together, something magic happens, and this right here is the magic. The seller says it is an eye catcher, and that’s...

Bolt A Snow Plow To The Front Of A ’55 Chevy And Throw Some Chains On It And Who Knows What Will Happen

DD Speed Shop is known for doing some fun stuff with a Tri-Five Chevy, but this one takes the cake and makes plowing snow cool. In this video you’ll see that a snow plow and chains does in fact...

Mrs. Murder Nova’s K5 Blazer Project Is Coming Along! Paint, Body, And More. Watch It Going Back Together.

A couple weeks ago we showed you the “new to the Murder family” K5 Blazer as it was introduced and taken apart for a fresh paint job before some other updates and upgrades. This is a...