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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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America’s Sweetheart: Leno Shows Off His 1996 Viper GTS

I had the Ferrari Testarossa folder. I had the Lamborghini Countach poster. I had a Trapper Keeper with a green Corvette ZR-1 parked on it. Were they cool cars? Yeah…and no. To each their own,...

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Just Drop The Top: The 1963 Ford Galaxie Convertible Is A…

It’s about as clean of a design as you can get. This is basic early 1960s…the fins are gone, the musclecar wildness hasn’t happened yet. This is a barge of a car, but it...

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Speed In The Swamp: Top Fuel and Funny Car Action Photos From The 2020 NHRA Gatornationals

(Photos by David Whealon) – It was only a few weeks back but the 2020 NHRA Amalie Oil Gatornationals represented a big move for the series in 2020 because it was the first race outside of...

Maybe Don’t Drop The Top: The 2021 BMW 4-Series Convertible Has Been Released To Mixed Stylistic Reviews

(By Tom Lohnes) – Usually, when a controversial-looking coupe comes out, there’s a convertible version that comes along that everyone tends to agree looks good. Well BMW tried to do that...

They’re Coming For The Corvette: New Corvette E-Ray Will Combine V8 With Electricity

(By Tom Lohnes) – The Corvette Grand Sport has always been the forgotten model in the Corvette lineup. Offering performance parts from the Z06/ZR1 of its era and mixing them with the base...

The 2020 Hi-Performance Expo Powered by Optima Batteries Is Coming To COTA November 1-3 – Big Fun, Big Money, Be There!

Winter is on the way, you have been likely locked out of at least a few of your favorite events this year and you are kind of bummed that there’s nothing left to do this year, right? WRONG. The...

Sunken Supersonic Treasure: The Flying Test Models From The Avro Arrow Program Have Been Found In Lake Ontario

It’s one of the most amazing and confounding aviation stories of all time. The history of the Avro Arrow, a fighter jet that was designed and was slated to be built in Canada as a way to stand...

Boosted Insanity: Watch The Most Powerful 4.0L Jeep Engine Ever Built Make 860+ HP and 880+ Lb-Ft On The Dyno!

It has been awesome to watch Newcomer Racing’s builds on the Horsepower Monster YouTube Channel. This company that is so well known for its Jeep inline six stuff is just killing it. The...

Morning Symphony: One Highly Pissed Off Honda S2000

Remember when these things came out? RWD Honda roadster was a cool thought…would give the Mazda Miata guys something to chew on for a minute, and it would be neat to see what a Honda mill could...

The Goldsmobile Is Back On The Road! New Fuel Tank, New Power Steering Pump, And More!

Right place, right time. That is simply the explanation as to how this 1972 Olds Cutlass has returned to the land of the living. The right person was told about the car and instead of being cut up as...

Race Car Or Big Boosted Street Car? Hoonigan Pits The Two Together!

I’m not sure when the A70 Supra gained it’s legendary status. Many will point to the Fast and Furious car from the first film, and that’s not a bad educated guess. But I remember...

A Thousand Times No: Get A Hawk’s Eye View As A Television Antenna Gets Built

To use a quote from James May:  “I genuinely don’t like heights. It’s my biggest failing…among many, I accept.” To me, it’s a matter of platform: the more space I...

2020 FE Race And Reunion Gallery: Delayed Gratification Is Still Gratification!

(Words and photos: Joe Grippo) Well, better late than never, right? After a 5-month Covid causing postponement, the 2020 FE Race and Reunion went down at Beaver Springs Dragway in the rural hills of...

Classic YouTube: The 1973 Dodge Dart Sport “Convertriple”…All The Excitement Over A Fold-Down Seat?

It’s 1973. The party is over, the music has died (except for the shop behind Pontiac’s main office, where you can still hear some early heavy metal blasting.) You’ve got a front row...