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Drag and Drive Photos: Buckeye Skips 2026 – Day 1 Driver’s Meeting, Checkpoints, and Racing at Darana Raceway National Trail in Ohio

(Photos by Neal Sabo) We just finished sharing our lost Buckeye Skips drag and drive photos from 2025 the other day, but we’re excited about 2026! Yesterday was Day 1, when the driver’s...

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Our Final Gallery of Car Show Photos From Pueblo’s Biggest Father’s Day Event! The 2026 Father’s Day Car Show!

(Photos by Charles Wickam) Billed as the biggest Father’s Day event in Pueblo, the Father’s Day Car Show at the Pueblo Christian Center is in it’s 8th year and fills up fast on show...

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Shop Tour Video: United by Trucks Visits Pennsylvania’s Hart Fab to Get A Look At What Makes Them Tick. This is UBT ON TOUR

I love shop tours. Who doesn’t? Seeing a hot rod or custom shop building cars and trucks is always fun to see, and when they do it right it is really fun to check out all their fabrication,...

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STREET WEEK SWEDEN LIVE in the United States For The First Time! Get Your All Access Pass To Drag And Drive Greatness Right Here!

That’s right folks, we’ve been talking about it for a few weeks but now is the time to sign up for your livestream from Street Week Sweden! I’ll be there, announcing, interviewing,...

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Laid On Its Balls! How This Custom NBS Went From Show To Scrap And Back To Life And On The Road!

This truck has got some interesting history and has lived a rough life but has been brought back to life in a big way. After being built, this truck lit the show world on fire as it was laid out on...

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100 Hot Rod Roadsters. Three Days. One Incredible Adventure. This Road Trip Is Full of Collections, Cruises, And Memories Like None Other.

We love a good road trip, and doing one in a topless hot rod sounds like a wonderful idea. I’m a big fan of a good convertible, and so are these guys. In this video you’ll see 100 vintage...

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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...

Ford Diesel Revival, Round Two: How Do You Start A Truck Hell-Bent On Staying Dead?

Two years ago, I saw one of Kevin’s earliest revival videos, the one that involved him chasing a pissed-off possum from the engine nest it had made on a Fiat 850 Spyder. Back then, not many...