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Punish the Pad New Zealand Burnout Competition Video: Destroying Tires, Lighting Fires, and Entertaining The Masses!

Australians get all the credit for big burnout competitions, but their neighbors the Kiwis also know what they are doing when it comes to creating big tire smoke. With huge “Australian...

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Land Speed Racers Chasing Speed at El Mirage: Here Are The 2025 Southern California Timing Association Season Highlights!

While Bonneville gets the most fame and attention, and is the most iconic land speed racing location on earth, the dry lake bed at El Mirage is home to land speed racing and arguably the toughest...

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Why Is Torx So Bad And So Good At The Same Time? Testing Torx Bits And Explaining How They REALLY Work.

Anyone that works on cars and trucks is familiar with Torx fasteners and bits, as are anyone who’s done any DIY, deck, fence, or construction projects in recent years. There are some big...

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Marketplace Find: This Survivor 1985 Chevrolet Suburban 2500 Is Big Block Powered Gold! Big Block, TH400, 3.73, And 68K miles!

Wow what a score this one will be for someone. With less than 70,000 miles on the odometer, and interior and paint that look near mint, this big block 2500 Suburban will make a great family cruiser...

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My Best BARN FIND Yet? Chip Foose Explores A Hot Rodders Collection And Finds One He Just Can’t Believe.

Chip Foose is no stranger to cool cars, whether in the project stage or finished or anywhere in between. But what you might not think about is that Chip is a hot rodder just like the rest of us and...

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Did Project Farm Really Improve Gas Mileage by 22.4%! Don’t Get Scammed and Do What Works!

With average gas prices in the country in the $4.50 range today, it’s no wonder folks are trying to get better gas mileage right now. For many of the drivers across the country it is going to...

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Watch This Crazed Off-Road Nova Scream Up A Hill Climb While Catching Air – Who Is This Masked Man?!

We need your help! Thanks for a tip from BangShifter Christon Gerber we have video of a guy named Doug Smith hammering up a (dirt) hill climb that was held in Lisbon, Ohio. This is not the bendy,...

Teutonic Tank: The New Mercedes S-Class Is Horsepower, Luxury, and Technology On Full Display

(By Tom Lohnes) – For decades now the Mercedes S-class and all of its variants have been the pinnacle of build quality, luxury, and all-around German engineering. This new generation of...

That’s Novel: This 11-Second Jeep Wrangler TJ Looks Pretty Much Stock…Minus The Turbocharged Barra Six!

It’s not that we haven’t seen fast Jeeps before…LSX Willys immediately springs to mind, as does the “Holy Toledo” Jeep funny car from back in the day. And that’s...

Cool Vans, Weird Tagline: This 1979 Dodge Van Commercial Gives The Model Line Up And A Weird Pitch

While the world wrestles with the COVID-19 pandemic, we look back to another scourge that came over the landscape, this one little more than 40 years ago and it was known as vanning. All of a sudden...

Plug In Or Get Paid Out: Cadillac Is Putting A Half-Mil On The Table For Dealerships Who Don’t Want To Go All-In On EVs

If GM is going to have their way, Cadillac’s will be quieter than they ever have been by 2030, with the top-tier GM badge ditching the German target they’ve had since the late 1990s and...

Draggin’ Ass: The 1991 Isuzu Rodeo Was As Slow As You Remember It – Talk About A Barge!

Tall tires, tall gears, and a 3.1L throttle body injected V6 from GM all added up to one of the slowest vehicles I remember riding in as a high school kid. In fact, it was so slow in my mind that I...

Faster Yet: Stevie Fast Jackson Talks About Being A Back To Back NHRA Pro Mod Champ – Loses 11lbs In The Process!

We live in an interesting time of racing history. There are lots of guys who have been groomed, trained, and educated as racing drivers, no matter the sport but they might not actually be...

Nitro Time Machine: Watch Jim White Bust The 290mph Barrier In Funny Car and Chat Up Steve Evans Behind The Scenes!

This right here is some prime-cut goodness for those hardcore NHRA fans of “back in the day”. One of the neatest parts of my job with NHRA is the fact that I have the keys to the massive...

The 2021 Honda Civic Is Coming: Our Little Boy Is All Growed Up!

(By Tom Lohnes) –  The new Honda Civic is here, and it’s much more Mazda3 than Toyota Corolla. The Mazda3 just recently entered its third generation and went a lot upmarket, forming a bridge...

Power Move: Cruz Pedregon Hires Entire Crew Of MD Anderson Funny Car For 2021 – Crew Chief On Down!

The silly season has taken little time to get kicked off in the world of NHRA Camping World Drag Racing. Cruz Pedregon announced late last week that he had hired the entire crew of the second place...

Morning Symphony: De-Tuning A 1.5JZ Toyota Soarer To Over 900 Horsepower

Toyota Supras became legendary for their ability to put out obscene amounts of power from six cylinders. Say “2JZ” to anyone under the age of 40 and they know…this is the proper...

Listen Up: The Story Of The 1927 Dole Air Race Is One of The Most Tragic And Insane Missives In American Aviation History!

The 1927 Dole Air Race stands as one of the most bizarre and tragic events in the history of flight. Paid for by James Dole, the pineapple magnate, the race was designed to capitalize on the fame...

The Fiero Revival, Part 12: Assembly? Sure…Let’s Start There.

With everything that he has done to the 1985 Pontiac Fiero 2M4 that he drug out of the woods, you would think that with every painted body panel that is going on, that the end is in sight, that the...

Demonic Dyno Session: Watch Ryan Tuerck’s Judd V10 Touch 10,000 and 11,000 RPM On The Pump

There are pretty high stakes whenever an engine is put on the dyno for testing, right? No matter if it is a 350hp engine that you made yourself in the garage or whether it is some whiz-bang creation...