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Will These Replica Classic Car Bodies Reshape The Car Industry? Juncheng Vehicle Co. Is Replicating Icons In China

Several years ago the restoration body parts business went to a whole new place when companies started offering complete bodies for our favorite American classics. 1969 Camaros were one of the first,...

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Use This 3 Step Secret to GLASS FLAT Paint! Kevin Tetz Shares Decades Of Experience That Will Make Your Paint Job A Success

We’ve shared plenty of Kevin Tetz videos over the years around here, and I can tell you that Kevin sure knows what he’s talking about. The number of TV and YouTube personalities that have...

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SUPPORT SURGES FOR LENO’S LAW AS CAR CULTURE DEMANDS COLLECTOR’S RIGHTS: Letters Pour in from California’s Lowrider Community and International Car Rreservationists in support of California SB 1392

We’ve talked about California SB 1392 in the past, and are thrilled that despite not making it to a vote in 2025, the bi-partisan group of California law makers who support it are still pushing...

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How To Fab Headers: Follow Along As The Iron Trap Garage Crew Build Custom Stainless Headers For The Ardun Powered 1933 3 Window!!

Headers are one of those fabrication projects that seem to intimidate a lot of people, and for good reason. If you go at them from the wrong direction, don’t have a game plan in place to start...

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Steve Magnante’s Daily Junkyard Crawl: THIS RARE FIREBIRD FORMULA 350 HAS HAD A HOD ROD LIFE! COME SAVE IT!

It’s time for another Daily Junkyard Crawl with Steve Magnante, and this time it’s another really cool Pontiac. How about a real deal 1987 Pontiac Firebird Formula 350 that has had a few good go...

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Wild Ride at the May 2026 El Mirage California SCTA Meet – The Spirit of AutoPower III Comp Coupe Hits A Bump at 228 MPH!

The Spirit of Autopower Comp Coupe is a pretty radical machine, and a staple in the land speed racing community. This thing is based off a little tiny first generation Honda Civic, but the rest is...

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2025 Wild Rides Video: Straight Line Media’s Wildest Rides From The First Half Of The 2025 Drag Racing Season

I hate these crash highlight videos, and I love them at the same time. Like everyone else, I want to watch them, but I also feel REALLY bad for some of the people in these videos who crash their...

DIY Ceramic Coatings Testing And Review: They’ve Never Seen A Ceramic Coating This Good! Not Even Close!

I just bought a freshly painted OBS Suburban a couple of weeks ago, and because it has the nicest paint of anything I own, I want to ceramic coat it to protect the pain in the long run. The problem...

FREE Bonneville Speed Week Livestream: All The Live Racing Action From The Starting Line At Bonneville Speed Week 2025

Thanks to some resourceful and dedicated friends of the land speed racing community, there is a livestream going of the 2025 Bonneville Speed Week and you can watch it all live, and FREE, right here....

Bonneville Speed Week 2025 Photos – Sunshine, Warm Temps, The Sounds Of Horsepower, And Good Friends. This Is Bonneville Speed Week 2025

Here’s our fourth gallery from Bonneville Speed Week 2025 and we’ll have more coming soon! If you missed any so far, use the link below to check out all our Bonneville Speed Week 2025...

The Grind Hard Giant Trike Project: Part 7 – The 3×3, Twin Engine, Monster Trike Gets More Custom Fab As They Finish Up The Cockpit!

We’ve shared the first six parts of this build and can’t get over everything that is going on here! This is a full on project that is not for the weak of heart. This is going to be something...

Will Finnegan’s 1953 Chevy Truck Make It 300 Miles Home For Derek From Vice Grip Garage? Traded SIGHT UNSEEN!

Have you ever made a deal to buy or trade for a car or truck that you’ve never even seen? I’ve traded some stuff sight unseen, but never one car for another like Derek and Finnegan just...

Our Bonneville Speed Week 2025 Photos Keep Coming! The Mecca Of Speed – Salt, Horsepower, Racecars, And More From Bonneville.

Here’s our third gallery from Bonneville Speed Week 2025 and we’ll have more coming soon! If you missed any so far, use the link below to check out all our Bonneville Speed Week 2025...

Pikes Peak 2025 Video: Check Out The Team Effort It Takes To Cover The World’s Most Famous Hillclimb!

Larry Chen is no stranger to awesome car events and has seen too many to count. With that said, there are a couple of events that push the envelope when it comes to providing good coverage from them....

Land Speed Record Holder, Husband, Father, Friend, And Industry Icon Chris Raschke Died Today At The Age Of 61 Doing What He Loved.

This afternoon, on the salt at Bonneville for Speed Week 2025, I said hi to Chris and took a few pictures of him in the Speed Demon 715 streamliner. Then I shot a few more as he left the starting...

More Photos From Bonneville Speed Week! Nugget Car Show Photos – Hot Rods, Salt, Horsepower, Racecars, And More From Bonneville.

(Photos by Chad Reynolds) It’s time for our continued coverage of the 2025 running of Bonneville Speed Week. If you have never been out to Bonneville at all, you need to come. If you’ve...

Live Drag Racing this Weekend at Santa Pod! Ultimate Street Car is the Largest, Loudest, Hottest and Fastest, Modified Car Show in Europe.

Ultimate Street Car is billed as the Largest, Loudest, and Baddest modified car show in all of Europe, and there is no better place to hold such an event than the one and only Santa Pod. This place...

FREE BIG MONEY BRACKET RACING LIVESTREAM: CORNBELT CLASSIC CASH HARVEST 2025 At Cedar Falls Motorsports Park – $16,000 Sunday

It’s time for more FREE live drag racing and that’s thanks to our friends at Gallstar TV who are bringing you all the live drag racing action this weekend from the Fuel Factory Cash Harvest at...

FREE LIVE DRAG RACING: THE WORLD SUPER PRO CHALLENGE AT MID MICHIGAN – Sunday $5,000 to win! – August 3, 2025

It’s free drag racing time baby! Our friends at Drag Racer TV are bringing us free live streaming video all weekend from the World Super Pro Challenge at Mid Michigan Motorplex, and it starts today...

Unseen for Two Decades – Don Baskin’s 1,000 Car Private Collection Takes Up 400,000 sq/ft of Warehouse And Garage Space!

If you follow drag racing in Oklahoma, and have paid any attention to the Mills family over the years, then the name Baskin will be familiar as Baskin Truck Sales has been on the side of their cars...