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Best of 2015: Man Had Thunderbird’s Turn Signal Stalk Surgically Removed 51 Years After The Wreck That Lodged It Into His Arm

Arthur Lampett’s 1963 Thunderbird suffered a catastrophic collision with a truck fifty-one years ago. Lampett survived the collision, the Ford did not. While his broken hip was the main focus...

Best of 2015: XJ Cherokee Versus A Swimming Pool: Which One Will Win?

Okay…we have a homemade ramp made mostly of old pallets. We have one well-used and abused Jeep Cherokee, and we have a backyard swimming pool. We also have a bunch of Canadians who are looking...

This 1976 Greenwood GT Corvette Was My Favorite Car At The Lingenfelter Collection (Seriously, It Was)

Call me names, throw rocks at me, judge me, but in front of God and everybody I’ll admit that this 1976 Greenwood GT Corvette was my favorite car out of all the incredible iron at the...

Best Of BS: Footage From The 2012 Pig N Ford Races In Tillamook, Oregon

I’ve seen rally cars take flight like a stone from a sling. I’ve seen drag cars go barrel-rolling down the strip after attempting to put the nose of the car into orbit. I’ve seen a...

Best Of 2015: This “1969 Charger” Can Easily Become Yours, If You Have A Howitzer To Trade

First things first…I hate to be the one to correct the owner of this Mopar, but you aren’t looking at a Dodge Charger of any vintage. Though, with that being said, it really doesn’t...

Best of 2015: Meet The Chrysler CL Ute With The Idle From Heaven – Blows The Tires Off Each Time Blower Surge Hits!

Used to be, if you had big tires out back, a blower sticking through the hood and were tooling around at idle that you would be nothing more than a show car, cannon fodder for every trailer queen...

Best Of 2015: This RWD V8-converted Chevrolet Cavalier Is An Evil Little Sleeper From The Great White North

What is in the water in Quebec? First we find that twin-engined freak of a Pontiac Grand Prix, then we come across this: a Chevrolet Cavalier Z24 that’s been converted to rear-wheel-drive,...

Best Of 2015: This 829WHP Dodge Colt Will Embarrass You If You Test It Out

By 1989 the Dodge Colt had pretty much dropped any aspirations of being a sporty subcompact and had instead shifted to a front-wheel-drive econobox platform. Shame, really, because some of the...

Best Of 2015: Can You Spot Every Way This Homebuilt…Um…Thing Is Wrong?

You are not just looking at a Challenger with a Chevrolet bow tie in the grille. I promise you that I would actually be happier to see that. No, I mean it. See, this was sent to me via Facebook as...

Question Of The Day: What Is The Most Obscure Special Edition Car You Can Remember?

“Special Edition”. Call me jaded if you will, but that phrase is synonymous with “we need to sell a ton more of these things to break even on the engineering costs!” and has...

FREE LIVE Drag Racing All Weekend From New Year Nationals At South Georgia Motorsports Park!

And you thought you’d have to sit around watching the Rose Parade today! Ha! Our partner’s in crime over at Motor Mania TV are jamming it out already on New Years Day! This is the very...

A 1970 Nova Snowmobile Creation From Utah — For Sale CHEAP! (Still)

If you have not noticed, the internet is a strange place. It is also a thing  that never forgets anything. That’s why when we were tipped off to the sale of this insane looking Nova snow...

A Day In The Life Of Alexis Dejoria’s Blower Specialist – Awesome Video From His Head!

Take one blower specialist, the guy that monitors, cleans, re-strips, and maintains the blowers on a Top Fuel or Funny Car team, and strap a camera to his forehead from the time he wakes up to the...

Best Of 2015: This 1980 Chevrolet C-10 Looks Innocent Enough, Doesn’t It? Don’t Trust The Quiet One…

(Editor’s Note: This 1980 Chevrolet has to be the best Craigslist find we saw this year…mostly for the Farmer John looks coupled with a sledgehammer under the hood, but because a reader...