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Two Old Guys In A Corvette: 46th President Joe Biden Speed Shifts His 1967 Corvette with Jay Leno on the Streets of Southern California

Democrats, Republicans, Libertarians, or Independents, none of it matters if you are a real car guy. In the video below you’ll see Jay Leno and President Joe Biden take a ride through SoCal in...

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Ride Along with Brian Otts in the #13 Super Modified Running The A-Main at Meridian Speedway From 11th to 4th!

If you aren’t familiar with Super Modified circle track cars, then you are missing out. This year at PRI, my buddy Bigun and I walked all around one drooling the whole time. While they do have...

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Final Drive Day, Shenanigans, and Shootouts! Rocky Mountain Race Week 2026 | Race Day Five Means Driving Across The Plains, Burnouts, and Shootouts at SRCA Dragstrip In Great Bend Kansas

Here’s the Rocky Mountain Race Week 2026 Day Five video and boy is it a fun one. We’re talking on the road, on the track and more! Day Three AND Four were both at Pueblo Motorsports Park and then...

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Iron Trap Garage is Sand Bending Zoomie Headers For Their 1932 Ford Roadster Drag Car!- Old School Method Explained!

We’re spoiled nowadays by mandrel bent tubing that is available for just about any project at any radius you can imagine. Some of it is really affordable too. But not always. And every shape...

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Lost Buckeye Skips Day TWO Drag and Drive Photos! We’ve Got On Track Action and Checkpoints, and More From Day 2 Coming!

Here’s our first gallery of lost photos from Day 2 of Buckeye Skip’s Drag and Drive, and we’ve got plenty more where that came from! Plus, if you missed the previous photos...

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FJ40 Land Cruiser Custom Fabrication: Air Conditioning, Atlas Twin-Stick, A Custom Grill and Bumpstops!

Shannon is back at the fab work on the FJ40, and man this thing is really coming along. In this installment we are sharing three videos that cover everything from the Vintage Air A/C, the Atlas...

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We Never Expected To See A 1990s Ford Thunderbird Drifting, But This Rules!

Yes, I’m on a MN-12 kick this week, and for good reason: nobody builds these things, it seems, and they go for pennies on the dollar when they sell. The Ford Thunderbird, Lincoln Mark VIII and...

This Japanese Motorcycle Cop Has Skills! Watch Him Work The Cones In The Soaking Wet!

For all of my off-road riding days, I’ve only ridden a handful of street bikes: a Yamaha XJ1100 Maxim that had a bad gearbox, a Kawasaki that a roommate picked up on the cheap, a Suzuki GS250...

Classic YouTube: The Callaway C6 SuperNatural Corvette LM – Swinging For The Fences In 1994!

In 1989, Callaway Cars did what many consider the impossible: they made a C4 Corvette run 254 miles per hour. The “SledgeHammer” Corvette is still one of the most wicked machines...

Classic YouTube: The 1965 MotorTrend 500 At Riverside – Gurney And Foyt Battling It Out!

It’s hard to not look back at old NASCAR footage and not muse about how the days of racing real “stock” cars are long gone, isn’t it? After the late 1980s, all the cars seem...

Strength On Strength: MGP Connecting Rods Completes Move To New Jersey – Same Facility As Manley Performance

MGP Connecting rods are recognized as some of the finest on the planet and they can be found in loads of extremely high horsepower cars across the world. The company, founded in 1996 and built on the...

Double Down: Watch This Naturally Aspirated Jeep Inline Six Make 395hp – Twice The Stock Rating!

It’s one thing to build a hot rodded version of a cool engine. It’s another thing to combine all your skills as a fabricator, engineer, and engine builder to take a platform and double...

Godzilla Roars! Watch This 7.3L Ford V8 Make 789hp Naturally Aspirated As It Awaits A Blower

Ok, this is really starting to get awesome. Brian Wolfe the legendary Ford engineer, drag racer, and blue oval horsepower maker has really started to stand on his 7.3L Godzilla development engine and...

Hitting Peak: This 1994 Video Showing Off The New S-10 and GMC Sonoma Represents The Little Truck At Its Best

Small trucks have always been an interesting things to us. Obviously we are back in the middle of a small truck war as we told you about the new Ranger Tremor that Ford just released but the small...

Listen To The Man: John Force Talks About Missing Indy, Not Racing In 2020, and More

It was and is one of the biggest stories in the world of NHRA drag racing. When John Force announced that he was parking his racing operation for the balance of 2020 the whole world was wondering...

2021 Ford Ranger Tremor: The Small Truck In Ford’s Lineup Packs A Big Punch!

(By Tom Lohnes) – Do you want the awesome Ford Ranger Raptor in the USA? Well, you can’t have it but you can have the new Ranger Tremor. With Tremor being Ford’s more subtle off-road pack...

2020 Performance Racing Industry Show Has Been Cancelled – Hard But Not Shocking News

Perhaps this isn’t a headline that shocks anyone in the high performance aftermarket or racing world, but it still stings pretty hard nonetheless. Officials with PRI have announced that the...

Technical Zen: This Guy Explains How He Created A Digital Dash For His Eagle!

Sometimes, the stock gauges in a car just suck. They don’t have a full compliment of useful gauges. The speedometer was woefully unprepared for what you had intentions for, or worse, was one of...

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Classic YouTube: A 400+ Horsepower Turbocharged Cutlass Ciera GT Having Some Fun

A few years ago, I ran a story on a 1986 Olds Cutlass Ciera GT and uttered a phrase that has haunted me ever since: “Pro Commuter”. The concept has some merit: giving what would be an...

Classic YouTube: Maynard Troyer’s Monster Rollover At The 1971 Daytona 500

Maynard Troyer’s NASCAR career was short. He only had two active years, 1971 and 1973. Two years before calling it quits seems strange, but not so strange as the gap year in between, right?...