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Steve Magnante’s Daily Junkyard Crawl: This 351, 4-SPEED, 3.50:1 TRACTION LOCK 1971 TORINO GT Is Cool!

It’s time for another Daily Junkyard Crawl with Steve Magnante, and this time it’s another really cool Ford. How about a real deal 1971 Torino GT with a 351, 4-speed, and a 9 inch with...

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Derek is Taking A 1,600 Mile Journey To Trade One Of Vice Grip Garages More Popular Trucks For The Ride He Sold And Instantly Regretted It

We’ve all traded or sold a car or truck and then regretted it. Sometimes that regret is as soon as the deal is done and sometimes it takes a week or month or year to realize that you just...

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1972 Chevrolet Crash Test Video: Watch A 1972 Chevrolet Vega Crash Head On Into A 1972 Chevrolet Impala For Science

Everyone thinks of a Vega as being super small, because it was a compact car back in the day, and that an Impala is super huge because at the time they really were and especially when compared to a...

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Build Your Own Vapor Blaster At Home With A Harbor Freight Blast Cabinet, Including a Full Parts List!

Vapor blasting, or wet blasting as many people call it, is a media or sand blasting method that uses water and sometimes an added detergent. The water and abrasives combine to clean and slightly...

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Dirthead Shed Tire Testing: Putting Avix Trailtek R/T Tires To The Test As Butter Jeep Takes On Tough Moab Trails

Dirthead Dave is back at it, with the newly LS Swapped and running Butter Jeep out on the trails in Moab for a bit of tire testing. Dave has been wheeling Jeeps and everything else under the sun for...

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WATCH FREE LIVE Streaming Drag Racing From Santa Pod RIGHT HERE! The Festival Of Power Is ON This Weekend!

This weekend at the famed Santa Pod Raceway in England, there’s a big drag race called the Festival of Power going on, and all the action is LIVE right here! This event is a pre-cursor to the...

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This Half Car Drag Boat Tow Rig Is The Best Thing You’ll See Today – Genius!

The guys at Urban Hillbilly Action videos have shown us all kinds of wild action over the years but this is a new one on us in the form of a half car drag boat tow rig. This unit is designed to bring...

The “WTF?!” Files: The Story Of The Algar Ferrari Heist…A Con Man, G-Men, And A Totalled Ferrari

Ferrari F50, #29/349, has to be the one Prancing Horse with the best story out of all of them. It doesn’t have racing glory. It doesn’t have ownership prestige. It wasn’t crashed by...

Beyond Opulent: The 1934 Deusenberg Walker Coupe, As Shown By Jay Leno

If you think back to cars of the 1930s, one shape stands out above the others: the Deusenberg. Is it more recognizable than, say, the 1933 Ford? The Ford was certainly more popular. The 1934...

The Craziest Car Commercial Of The 1980s Involved Launching A Car Off An Aircraft Carrier And Strapping It To A Submarine

Pretty much everyone (including us) has been blown away by the last couple of Ken Block Gymkhana videos that featured him doing crazy stunt driving stuff in urban areas that were obviously closed off...

Steve Torrence, Matt Hagan, Erica Enders and Matt Smith Clinch NHRA World Finals In Vegas!

(Photos by Mike & Jeff Burghardt and Timothy Heather – Words courtesy of NHRA Communications) – All four points leaders in the NHRA Camping World Drag Racing Series finished the job on...

Fish Out Of Water: Mega Trucks Hooked To A Pulling Sled Look Weird, Put On Great Show

There’s always something appealing about seeing a car or truck try something that may be a little of its intended realm and maybe way out of the driver’s accumulated experience. It is...

Watch A Triple Turbo John Deere European Pulling Tractor Explode Spectacularly…And Get Extinguished With Buckets Of Water

To those non-versed in the pulling world, the sight of a tractor with a roll cage and a driver in a fire suit may seem somewhat comical but when you watch this video you’ll know why the guys...

So How Many Hub Caps Did The Bullit Charger Lose During The Chase? We’ve Got The Answer

(Infographic credit: BestRide.com) – The Bullit Charger, one of the most iconic movie cars of the 20th century shed hubcaps like our own McTaggart sheds dandruff. The near 11-minute chase...

Screw You, Gravity: Watch MotoGP Champ Marc Marquez Blast Up The Austrian Alps On His Race Bike!

Marc Marquez isn’t just the MotoGP champion…he’s just about mental when it comes to his desire to be the winner. He first popped up on our radar in 2015…when his Repsol Honda...

Bucked Bronco: Reviving A No-Joke Trash Can Of A Bronco For A Cheap-Truck Challenge

That’s it, it’s official. The next time I find some abandoned, unloved, half-destroyed Ford truck that most people would happily ship to the crusher with no secondary concern for...

Caption This: Roborace Has Encountered An Error And Needs To Reboot

Everybody worries about the rise of the machines. Oh, no, Skynet is going to become self-aware and Arnold is gonna show up at our door looking like Rob Halford’s Grindr date, ready to go,...

Great Video: Watch A Steam Shovel Get Recovered From The Depths Of The Water And Restored – Neat!

(By Greg Rourke) – Barn finds. Blah blah blah, we’ve heard it all before. How about a quarry find? And not exactly a “find”, as it was never really lost. Did we mention it...

The Challenger Revival, Part 25: Putting In The New Old Gauges And Dash Details!

The exterior is one thing, but I’m someone who loves the details of the interior. What can I say, my happy place is behind the wheel and there is nothing more infuriating than a fuel gauge that...

Vintage NHRA Coverage: Watch The Pros and Pro Comp From The 1980s Fall Nationals

Two weeks ago, the NHRA Fall Nationals were held in Texas. It was an awesome race and one that has been held in a few spots over the years.  This video was taken at the NHRA Fall Nationals long...