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Iron Trap Garage Video: Cummins Swapping A 1947 Ford Flatbed, Checking Out A 1934 Phaeton & Carlisle Prep!!

The Iron Trap Garage crew are at it, getting some work done and prepping for the upcoming Carlisle swap meet. The big job in this one is doing a Cummins swap on a cool 1947 Ford Flatbed pickup. This...

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FREE LIVE DRAG RACING: Big Money Bracket Racing From The 2026 Spring Fling at Galot – $15,000 Wednesday

The Spring Fling at GALOT is LIVE right now with big money bracket racing going on through the weekend! If you want to see great drag racing action from one of the nicest dragstrips in the country,...

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Tool Testing: This $800 Snap-On Goes Up Against Every Price Ratcheting Wrenches To See Who’s Got The Best!

We run a lot of tool testing videos around here and many are expensive vs cheap tool comparisons. I’m not saying that every cheap tool is good, or that all expensive tools are overpriced, but I...

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Bustys Bar & Jukebox LoneStar Round Up Kick Off Party Video: Hot Rods, Customs, And More In Austin

We’ve shared a couple of Lone Star Roundup videos so far, and can tell you that it was a heck of a show as usual. Because this show has gotten so big over the years it has turned into not only...

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The Touring Car Race At The 83rd Goodwood Member’s Meet Could Be The Greatest Finish in Goodwood’s History! 2026 Win Percy Trophy Full Race

We’ve got some more cool video from Goodwood’s Member’s Meet 2026. This year the action was even better than ever, and the Touring Car race for the Win Percy Trophy was one of the...

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FREE LIVE DRAG RACING: Big Money Bracket Racing From The 2026 Spring Fling at Galot – Time Trial Tuesday

The Spring Fling at GALOT is LIVE right now with big money bracket racing going on through the weekend! If you want to see great drag racing action from one of the nicest dragstrips in the country,...

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Watch Pro275 Class Eliminations From The DuckX Magic 8 At Orlando – Pro275 Rules!

It’s not too often that you get to watch a class of drag racing come into itself right before your very eyes but such has been my experience with the Pro275 category at the last two DuckX...

Tough News: Crampton, Sanders, Lagana Injured In Sunday Evening Car Crash

It has been widely reported since Monday, but if you have not heard Richie Crampton, Jake Sanders, and Dom Lagana were injured in varying degrees after being involved in a single car accident on...

Hurst Announces Master Rebuild Kits For Competition/Plus Shifters – Units From 1966 To Present Covered!

Learning to rebuild a Holley carb, servicing a Hurst shifter, these are things that gear heads have been using as rites of passage for a half century now and that’s pretty awesome when you...

The Mazda MX-30 Combines A Wankel Rotary Engine, Hybrid Technology, and Isn’t Trying To Be Normal

(By Tom Lohnes) – Mazda has another crossover thing on the way and it’s quite strange. Carrying the MX nameplate, the MX-30 has RX-8 style styling and MX-5 style performance all wrapped in a...

The Dragster Hunter: Check Out The Incredible Story Of A 1960s California Dragster That Somehow Ended Up In Tennessee

Our pal Tommy Lee Byrd keeps on topping himself. Not only does this guy find the coolest and most interesting deals on all kinds of interesting parts but he is also history obsessed like we are and...

Beast On A Budget: Watch This 1,000hp Naturally Aspirated Big Block Get Built, Dynoed, and Bogged

Before you freak out and question our use of the word “budget” in the title, understand that in every case “budget” means something different. At 18 years old you were on a...

Historical Footage: Richard Petty’s Charger Vs. Bobby Allison’s AMC Matador At The 1975 Southern 500

When AMC redesigned the Matador line for 1974, they essentially made two different cars out of the same name: the sedan and wagon were basically face lifted versions of the car that replaced the...

If You Thought The Block Was Cool, This CNC Video Showing A Cylinder Head Being Made Is Amazing

Last week we showed you a video of a CNC mill creating and engine block from a billet of aluminum. This week we move up a step both on the engine and in the complexity of work with the video below....

Bonneville Speed Week 2020: Engines Galore! Some Of The Mills From The Salt!

Bonneville is a place steeped in tradition. For every late-model item filled to the brim with the best and most modern, there’s a Ford Model A rocking a Cadillac mill in the engine bay. For...

Like Nothing: Dropping A Fiat 126 On An Ax Blade The Size Of A Doghouse!

Do you have a temper in the shop? Come on now, be honest…after stripping out a bolt, after the wrench slipped and it now looks like you went ten rounds with Mike Tyson in his prime, after...

Pro-Touring Truck Shootout 2020: More Corner-Carving Race Trucks From Kentucky!

A day filled with pickup trucks that can run rings around a lot of performance cars, out in the beautiful sunshine, with a track day going on in the background just for good measure…the...

Rough Start: 1993 Chevrolet Blazer Sport – The Dying Breed

Forty years is how long the Chevrolet Blazer K5 lasted in it’s original form, a two-door full-size sport-utility vehicle. That body shell outlived the Blazer name, living on as the two-door...

Pro-Touring Truck Shootout 2020: Corner Gripping And Ripping

Texas might be the pickup truck haven, but that status was earned decades ago when owning a truck in the wide-open spaces of the Lone Star State made perfect sense. It’s 2020…the pickup...

Bonneville Speed Week 2020: Night Two At The Nugget’s Parking Lot

Being on the salt all day is a double-edged sword. On one hand, you’re on the freaking salt, man! How can life suck when you’re surrounded by fast machines, gearheads, and one of the...