First Impressions - Gary Brown’s Hot Rod Turns Heads at Hot Rod Drag Week 2025!
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First Impressions - Gary Brown’s Hot Rod Turns Heads at Hot Rod Drag Week 2025!

Few cars at Hot Rod Drag Week 2025 turned as many heads as Gary Brown’s ’33 Ford Tudor. Roof-chopped to within an inch of its life and barking with centrifugally supercharged combustion, this radical machine had us pining for the Bonneville salt flats. 

Gary is a street rod builder and restorer by trade at Browns Metal Mods, which made him the perfect man to take a ‘rusted out hulk of a shell’ and turn it into something special. 

“I built the car ground-up to do drag and drives three years ago,” he said. “And I finally made an event!” 

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David Freiburger Talks About ‘Roadkill’ – Tells His Side of the Story on the Popular Show
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David Freiburger Talks About ‘Roadkill’ – Tells His Side of the Story on the Popular Show

“Freiburger here. It’s true; my television shows have been canceled.” The former editor-in-chief for Hot Rod magazine, as well as the creator of Hot Rod Drag Week and Pump Gas Drags, stated those words to open his most recent video. Freiburger tells his side of the story of the popular MotorTrend show Roadkill, which was recently canceled after thirteen seasons.

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‘Roadkill’ Show Hits the End of the Road – News That the Thirteenth Season of the Popular Show with Freiburger and Finnegan Will Be the Last
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‘Roadkill’ Show Hits the End of the Road – News That the Thirteenth Season of the Popular Show with Freiburger and Finnegan Will Be the Last

“This is the show where we play with cars, and you point and laugh. We call it Roadkill.” Those words were stated by David Freiburger in Episode 1 of the popular MotorTrend show ‘Roadkill’ which hit YouTube in early 2012. 

Nearly thirteen years and thirteen seasons after that first show was recorded, Mike Finnegan broke the news on Reddit that ‘Roadkill’ will not record a fourteenth season.

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