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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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What Does A Chrysler 360 Need In Order To Rock? Check Out This Bit Of Dyno Work!

The Chrysler 360, the unsung small-block of Ma Mopar’s list. It’s not the screamer 340 that powered Dusters, Demons and the like, and it’s not the anvil 318 that came in just about...

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Daddy Long-Legs: The History Of The CH-54 Tarhe Heavy Lift Helicopter

Those with an ear for helicopter engines can pick out certain noises. The wop-wop-wop of a Bell UH-1 Iroquois, for example, or the flat roar of an AH-64 Apache. One of the more distinctive noises...

2020 Southeastern Chevy/GMC Truck Nationals: Square Bodies In The Sunshine

If there is one vehicle that I believe Brian, Chad and I all agree on 100%, it would be a GM truck. We might not agree on year, engine, setup, model or purpose, but we all can agree that we can find...

FREE LIVE STREAMING Drag Racing: The Xtreme Texas Nationals Featuring The Mid-West Drag Racing Series

Saturday: Racing scheduled for 6 P.M. Central! No, your eyes didn’t deceive you, the name is accurate: the Summit Racing Equipment Mid-West Drag Racing Series, the former Mid-West Pro Mod...

Historical Video: Tazio Nuvolari’s Bombshell Win At The 1935 German Grand Prix

Taizo Nuvolari is one of those drivers whose name has become legendary in certain circles. Ferdinand Porsche considered the best racing driver, period and Enzo Ferrari championed him as the inventor...

Caption This: Risk Assessment? Never Heard Of Him.

DD Form 2977, “Deliberate Risk Assessment Worksheet”. What is it? In Army lingo, it’s a form that is used to identify, analyze and mitigate risks for everything from something as...

Seasoning The Floor Pan: Preparing The Interior Of The Independence Chevelle

No, it hasn’t just fallen apart and no, he hasn’t stopped working on it. Vice Grip Garage’s 1970 Malibu known as Independence is still coming together from it’s haggard,...

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Random Car Review: 1978 Chevrolet Malibu Classic “Black Sterling” Concept

Towards the end of the 1970s, GM saw the writing on the wall: cars had finally reached peak mass and needed to be shrunken if the company was going to have any hope in Hell of making profits in the...

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Vintage Drag Video: Early 1970s Funny Car Action From Illinois’ Motion Raceway

There’s nothing quite like vintage drag strip videos from the 1970s featuring some of the neatest funny cars of the era. This particular video was shot in 8mm format at Motion Raceway in...

The American Powertrain Parting Shift: Watch This Four Speed, Straight Axle Fairlane Get Power Shifted At Eagle Field

Here’s a combo we can love. Take a classic muscle car, slap a straight axle under it, built a healthy motor and back it with a four speed and then go run it at the strip. The math there is...

Historical Footage: Playing Catch and Release With Curtiss F9C Sparrowhawks Aboard USS Akron

Nowadays, we can only imagine what it must have been like to see a gigantic airship like USS Akron or Graf Zepplin flying around in the skies. To put it to scale, the Akron was over three times as...

Video – Hot Rodded Oliver Inline Six Tractor Engine Make 405hp And 560+ lb/ft On The Dyno Naturally Aspirated!

When one thinks of an antique tractor pulling engine thoughts normally wander to updraft carbs and old oil and grease seeping around ancient bolt heads. If that’s what you actually think that...

Buick V6 Build: The L67 Gets Introduced To It’s New Home!

Scotty’s L67 Buick V6 build is probably my favorite project going this year that doesn’t involve me sweating my fat ass off in the Kentucky heat and humidity. I enjoy the 3.8L...

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SUV Of Doom: Watch This Denali Spin Both Rollers On An AWD Dyno To The Tune Of 775HP To The Tires!

We’ve said it a lot over the years and the fact is nothing is cooler in our book than big and fast. Big is good, fast is good, but big and fast together? That’s as nice as beer and...