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NORRA Baja Livestream: The National Off-Road Racing Association Takes On The Mexican Desert May 1-7!

The National Off-Road Racing Association has been putting on races since 1967 and is known for their Baja race that is a little less hardcore than SCORE’s BAJA 1000. Not that the racing...

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Drill Press Meets Fab Table: Jason From Fireball Tools Built the Drill Press He’s Always Wanted!

Have you ever walked into someone’s shop or garage and seen a tool that got you excited because you realized it is something someone customized? I’ve done it too many times to count, and...

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RebelDryver Got A New Project Car! This 1977 Chevy Monza Is Going To Become A Drag And Drive Machine!

Our boy Scott Liggett is back with a new drag and drive project! After buying a 1950 Chevy coupe a year or two ago, and realizing it would be more work than he was really wanting to tackle, he sold...

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Better Than Rain-X?! Is This The Best Windshield Water Repellent Windshield Coating Ever? 10 Brands Tested!

I am a big fan of Rain-X. I own, and have owned, a few vehicles that don’t have windshield wipers at all and have found that if you apply it right and often enough it works wonders. I’ve...

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Our Final Gallery of 2026 PDRA East Coast Nationals Photos! Pro Mods, Dragsters, Door Cars, And So Much More!

Here’s gallery #4, our final gallery of PDRA East Coast Nationals action, and if you missed the photos we already posted, use the link below to check them out too. (Photos by David Whealon) The...

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This Awesome Dent Side Ford F100 Pre-Runner RIPS The STREETS, The Dirt, And More!

There is something awesome about vintage bodied pre-runner trucks, and this dentside F100 is a great example. My uncle had a SuperCab back then, and even though I was never a Ford fan growing up I...

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The Real McCoy: The Front Clip From The Jack McCoy 1969 Dodge Charger Daytona NASCAR Racer Is For Sale

Now this is pretty awesome. For sale on eBay right now is the complete and shockingly straight front clip from NASCAR racer Jack McCoy’s 1969 Charger Daytona. McCoy was an amazing competitor...

Million Dollar Hauler: Meet The Rolls Royce Silver Spectre…All $1,250,000 Of 700hp Shooting Brake

(By Tom Lohnes) – Do you ever yearn for a 2-door wagon but don’t want to be a peasant and buy a $280,000 Ferrari GTC4 Lusso? Well, Rolls Royce has the car for you, and there’s only 3 of...

Dart Machinery Block Prep Service Means That When Your Block Is Delivered, It’s Ready To Build

People have different needs when they buy stuff like engine blocks. If you are a builder maybe you want it as raw as possible to put all the tweaks and tricks you know into it. If you are a home...

Nightmare Fuel: This 1950s Video Shows The Effects Of A Nuclear Blast On Vehicles – Insane

This 1953 film taken at a Nevada firing range known as Frenchman Flat is important, scary, and captures one of the most interesting moments in the history of America’s nuclear arsenal. This is...

Great Drive: Watch British Touring Car Championship Driver Sam Tordoff Run From Last To Second In Porsche 356!

There’s some of you out there who will say, “Of course the guy who is a BTCC racer is going to fare well against mostly amateurs in old cars!” Your opinion is not wrong at all, but...

The One That Started It All – This Look And Drive Of The 1971 AMG 300SEL Is A Trip Back Into Racing History

These days we all know that when you see the AMG badge on a Mercedes you are looking at a pretty bad hombre no matter what size the car is. Back in the early 1970s AMG made its name with a behemoth...

This 1970s Promotional Film For The Sikorsky UH-60A Is Kind Of Weird And Awesome

The Skiorsky UH-60A Black Hawk is an amazing piece of military machinery that has been serving the United States and countries across the globe for some 40 years now. First flown in 1974 and then...

Carnage Report: Just How Jacked Up Was Cleetus’s Dale Truck On RMRW 2.0?

If you were following along on the live stream of Rocky Mountain Race Week 2.0, you probably figured out in a hurry that the “Dale Truck”, Cleetus’s Earnhardt-liveried Chevrolet...

The Hellcat Wagon Build: Mocking Up The Hindquarters

Buying a rare machine is one thing, but making your dream machine yourself by hand…that’s a long, drawn-out process that requires sharp skills and the patience of a saint meditating...

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Evel Knievel: True Grit – This Documentary Is Pretty Awesome, Honest, and Fun

This is something else. Evel Knievel: True Grit is a documentary style film that was made before Knievel died and it documents many aspects of his life in raw detail. Knievel himself tells some of...

Would You Rather: Conventional Tractors From 1975 – Which One Do You Saddle Up In?

Big rigs were in their prime in the mid-1970s. Trucker culture was all the rage, CB radios were hip, and the lingo was just about everywhere. Movies, television shows, that C.W. McCall song...

Classic YouTube: The Drifting Camaro, In All Of It’s Glory

This footage is the ultimate bad influence. It’s the benchmark for stupid driving fun. It’s a goal that needs to be attained. It’s one of the first Aussie burnout videos I ever saw....

How To Build A Manic Power Wheels, Volume One: Frame Out The Build!

Ever since we first saw the Grind Hard Plumbing Co.’s Mustang start drifting at speeds more suited to a built quad, we’ve been hooked on their builds. In short order they have perfected...

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Holley’s New Hemi Swap Parts For The Jeep TJ Just Made Your Homebuilt Hemi Jeep A Reality

The idea of stuffing a Gen III Hemi into a new Jeep is not something that became cool yesterday. It’s been a thing for a little while but it has been a bit of an adventure to actually complete...