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Jay Leno Drives the Ultimate 1967 Muscle Car Unicorn (With an American Powertrain 6-Speed Swap!)

Just 187 1967 Pontiac 2+2 HOs were built from the factory, and man is this thing a real unicorn. With the 428 under the hood, and a factory 4-speed, it was a fun car to drive, but it’s a whole...

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FREE No Prep Drag And Drive LIVESTREAM: Back To The Streets 2026 Is Hitting Wabash, Wagler, Brown County And Bunker Hill Dragways This Week!

It’s Drag and Drive season and that means more and more folks are taking their hot rods and race cars out for racing and road trips and we love them for it. Back to the Streets is one of the more...

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NHRA Four-Wide Nationals Action Photos From Zmax In Charlotte: Our Nitro Burning Top Fuel Dragster and Funny Car 4-Wide Drag Racing Photos Continue!

(Photos by David Whealon) – It was a cool, fast, and adventurous weekend for the stars of the NHRA Mission Drag Racing Series at the NHRA Four-Wide Nationals at zMax Dragway in Charlotte, North...

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Featured Product: Mazda Miata Coil Overs From Ridetech! One Of The Best Track Day Cars Ever Gets Some New Goodies From Ridetech!

Whether you love their 4 cylinder power, or not, it’s hard to argue with the handling prowess of the venerable Mazda Miata. The MX5, as it is known everywhere else in the world, is light,...

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Indianapolis 500 Movie – The 500: Immortality at Indy. The Greatest Spectacle in Racing.

The Indianapolis 500 will be run for the 110th time this Sunday as the green flag drops for the 2026 edition of this amazing race. Regardless of whether you are a hardcore Indy Car Series fan, or...

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More NHRA Four-Wide Nationals Action Photos From Zmax In Charlotte: Nitro Burning Top Fuel Dragster and Funny Car4-Wide Drag Racing Photos!

(Photos by David Whealon) – It was a cool, fast, and adventurous weekend for the stars of the NHRA Mission Drag Racing Series at the NHRA Four-Wide Nationals at zMax Dragway in Charlotte, North...

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3D Printing Fender Flares? Yep! The Guys Did Just That To Get Them Just Right For Project Binky

Project Binky has been one of my all time favorite YouTube builds in the past few years and I’m missing it terribly while it is in the body shop getting painted and ready for reassembly....

Homemade Tools: This Pipe Anvil Will Come In Handy For Lots Of Sheetmetal Projects And Is CHEAP! Make Your Own Trans Tunnels, Driveshaft Tunnels, Rockers, And More!

I love DIY tools. I have a bunch of tools in my toolbox that have been modified or scratch built in order to fulfill a need, or to do a special task. Most of them are small, but when I see a home...

Best of 2020: The 1979 Frank Winchell Speech To The Corvair Society of America

On the surface, the story is well-known: An attorney by the name of Ralph Nader takes aim at General Motors and in particular, the 1960-64 Chevrolet Corvair, in the name of consumer protectionism....

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This 1978 GMC G-30 Shorty Van Is A Pathfinder Modified 4×4 Beast We Would LOVE To Drive!

4×4 vans are cool, I don’t care who you are. But they aren’t very common in comparison to your average white plumbers 2-wheel drive van seen all across the country. But even when the...

Best of 2020: 2003 Dodge Caravan Dump Truck. Yeah, That’s No Typo.

My official stance on trucks: If you need something sincerely heavy-duty, the kind of rig to tow cars home with, to tote a 5th-wheel or gooseneck camper with, the kind of machine you’ll haul a...

Best of 2020: 2017 IRPA Nationals – A Five-Way Sudden Death Match!

Every race is competitive…everybody wants to win. But there are different forms of winning. Take NASCAR, for example. Some want to catch every checkered flag, whether it’s black and white...

Best of 2020: Speedbird: The Story Of The EPA’s Plymouth Superbird Test Car!

Of all of the things I’ve ever heard of about a car “back in the day”, this one is by far the most amusing one. At the beginning of the 1970s, the Environmental Protection Agency...

Best of 2020: 1992 Chrysler Phantom R/T – The Mexicans Got The Good Mopars!

I’ll say it right now: between the end of the Musclecar era and the arrival of the Dodge Viper, the United States got shafted and Mexico got spoiled. Proof: We got the Dodge Dart Sport, the...

Dually Suburban For The Win! And It Is A Square Body! My Two Favorite Trucks Rolled Into One

Square Body Chevrolet and GMC Duallies have enjoyed a HUGE rise in popularity in the past few years and I understand why completely. I mean just look at them. They are some of the best looking dually...

Daydream Into Drift: A Bit Of Russian Sideways Action Courtesy Of A Mushroom Trip

There are some days, usually the sunny warm ones with the long hours, where reality can go and screw itself. These are the days when you are usually out “fishing” on the water, where the...

Finnegan Ads Hatervision, AKA A Huge Holley EFI Dash, To His C10 Truck Which Is Getting Put Together!

Never have there been more choices in gauges and dash clusters for popular hot rods, trucks, muscle cars, and street machines. And whether you want to run traditional round gauges, or one of the...

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Best of 2020: 1966 Mercedes-Benz Unimog 406 Car Hauler

It’s easy to take a jab or two at Brian Lohnes’ love of big trucks, but his kryptonite, without a doubt, are Mercedes-Benz Unimogs. At least his rationale behind the obsession is...

Here’s The 12 Days of Burnouts 2020 In Their Entirety! See All 12 Smoke Shows Right Here.

Burnouts are great no matter what time of year, but there is something extra cool about burnouts during the holidays. Maybe it’s the Christmas trees on the roofs of high powered hot rods, maybe...

Best of 2020: Check Out This Fully Functional Remote-Controlled Ekranoplan!

When the KM ekranoplan was discovered by spy photography in 1967, Western countries could not understand quite what they were looking at. The idea of a ground-effect craft, or ekranoplan, was not on...

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