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Buford T Justice Update: A TCI 700R4 And Breakaway Torque Converter Get Our 9C1 Caprice Shifty!

Last week I installed the cylinder heads, COMP lifters, rockers, pushrods,and LS lifter guides into Buford’s small block mill. While all that was nice, we still had a massive problem on our...

Watch:Ford Raptor Destroyed While Landing A Massive Jump – Rednecks With Paychecks Carnage!

The Ford F-150 Raptor is one bad ass truck. Having thoroughly worked one off road and even jumped in it, I can say that they’re capable of standing up to almost everything a sane person could...

Gallery: The National Motorcycle Museum – Part 1

(Words and Photos by Greg Rourke) – Anamosa, Iowa is home to the National Motorcycle Museum and I can’t imagine a finer collection of motorcycles and memorabilia exists anywhere. Among...

Gallery: Bitchin’ Variety At The Kemah Cruise – Kemah, Texas

(Photos by Charles Wickam) – It is officially cruise season in Texas as Charles Wickam has filed his first gallery of the season from the Kemah Cruise in Kemah, Texas. The place was packed to...

Buford T Justice Update: Headers, Cheap LS Technology, New Valvetrain Parts, More Compression, Fun!

Our weekly Buford updates continue! When last we left you, Dana Hard and Jon Wall at Custom Automotive Machine in Weymouth, Massachusetts had just finished working on the 083 cylinder heads for the...

America’s Most Beautiful Roadster 2013 is John Mumford’s 1927 Ford Track T Built By Roy Brizio

We had the opportunity to meet and hang out with Mumford during the Goodguys Rodfather Tour, and can tell you that he is one awesome guy, just like his cars. Roy Brizio did the final assembly on this...

Gallery: Sprint Cars, Drag Race Cars, Classic Trucks, and More From The 2013 Motorsports Expo

(Photos by Joe Grippo) – We’re back with the second installment of Joe Grippo’s great photos from the 2012 Motorsports Expo in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. In this gallery...

Gallery: The 2013 Motorsports Expo – Greater Philadelphia Expo Center – Oaks, PA

(Photos by Joe Grippo) – Every winter, hot rodders, racers, and gearheads of all backgrounds in the greater Philadelphia area gather at the Philadelphia Expo Center for the annual Motorsports...

Epic BS Video: A Half Hour Uncut Interview With NHRA Funny Car Driver Ron Capps – NAPA AA/FC

One of the great highlights of our 2013 PRO Winter Warm Up coverage was a half hour video interview with Ron Capps, the driver of the NAPA AA/FC and one of the great funny car pilots of all time....

Gallery: An Awesome Collection of Antique Motorized Bicycles At The Dezer Collection

We’ve been taking you through the massive and diverse Dezer Collection Museum in Miami, Florida this week and we continue today with this gallery of some seriously neat stuff. One section of...

Gallery: Batmobiles, General Lee, Starsky and Hutch, Famous Movie/TV Cars at The Dezer Collection

Miami, Florida’s Dezer Collection car museum has a massive grouping of famous movie and tv cars like one of the original Batmobiles (#3 made), a General Lee, the Monkeemobile, a Starsky and...

Buford T Justice 9C1 Caprice Update: Metal Fab,Head Work, A Good Surprise, An Awful One

As promised, we’re back with another update of Project Buford T Justice, our 1987 9C1 Caprice. In the last installment we took the car to the dyno and thrashed all day bolting on more than 20hp...

Video: Courtney Force Runs “World’s Fastest”, 322.73 MPH Funny Car Run, At PRO Winter Warmup

When Ron Capps ran 3.964 at 320.89 miles per hour at Englishtown during the 2012 NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Season, it knocked the world on it’s ear. Well that same scenario went down in West...

2013 PRO Winter Warm Up Action Gallery: Nitro Funny Cars and Top Fuelers At Palm Beach Intl Raceway

Despite the Saturday rain, we had a killer time at the 2013 PRO Winter Warm Up at Palm Beach International Raceway in Florida. We saw Courtney Force make the fastest 1000′ funny car pass in...