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Fake It Like You Made It: This 1979 Rowley GTC Combines Italian Sexiness With Chevrolet Value!

You see that Ferrari Daytona, the one sitting on the iconic Borrani wire wheels, painted “arrest me” red? Yeah, the one over there, the Spyder, with the quad pipes jutting out, ready to...

How To Fabricate DIY Threaded Inserts For The Frame Of Your Hot Rod

Matt and the gang at Eastwood are always having fun building cool stuff and showing us how it’s done. In this video he’s making the final preparations for bolting the body of his...

Watch This Tiny Italian Fiat Rip 9-Second Passes on a Runway

We’re not really sure what’s under the hood of this tiny Fiat Uno hatchback in Italy, but whatever is making the power is doing a pretty good job. If you’re not familiar with the Uno, it’s a...

We Need These Gas-Powered Power Wheels To Play In The Snow! Check These Little Monsters Out!

Is the ultimate end for a Power Wheels toy destined to be down a dirt trail at high speed with an individual of questionable mental capacity on it? We love “Barbie Jeep Racing”, but we...

This 1953 Twin Coach Mayflower Moving Van Is The Coolest Old Big Truck Ever

Nothing on earth would be a cooler vintage car hauler than this thing. Nothing. We’ve never seen a Twin Coach before, but they were built by the Fageol Brothers based on a Red Diamond and...

Would You Rather, ’60s Suicide Doors Edition: Thunderbird or Continental

I’ve recently been thumbing through a library copy of Nick Georgano’s Art of the American Automobile: The Greatest Stylists and Their Work to get some learnin’ about American car design. It’s...

We Hit The Last Pomona Swap Meet Of 2016 And Here Are All The Photos!

We’ve got almost 400 photos from the Pomona Swap Meet, and we’ll be putting up a gallery per day until they are gone! Here is the first gallery from all the cars in the show/car corral...

This Is The Ford Probe That Sent Everyone Packing At Redemption 6.0!

Jerry Bird showed up at Osage Casino Tulsa Raceway Park with a mission on hand: win. Pure and simple, he would go walking through the Outlaw class for the $20,000 purse that was being offered, and he...

Dead Car Rolling: Take In The Final Moments Of A Condemmed Mercedes

The only thing worse than seeing the frontal offset crash of a 2017 Mercedes E-class actually happening is the moment just before the car starts to roll towards the barriers at Mercedes’...

Buy This S&S Sand Car For A Fraction Of What It Cost New

When high horsepower sand cars became the thing that everyone had to have here in SoCal, they were commanding huge huge money, and then a lot of people lost their butts in the housing market and had...

This C7 ZO6 Runs 9’s In The Quarter, And Pulls The Wheels At The Start, With Bolt Ons!

New cars are amazing with regards to power, but most are big heavy pigs. The Hellcat for example. Makes 700, drives like it has 400, because it weighs eleventy thousand pounds. The new Z06 is a bit...

This Steyr Puch Expedition RV Would Look Right At Home Anywhere In The World, On Any Terrain

There is something about expedition rigs that just turns our crank. Ever since I was a kid reading about the Turtle Expedition, because of the stories in my favorite off-road magazines and especially...

Scrapple, Your Guide To The “meh”-Worthy News! This Week: High-Speed Idiot, Rolls-Royce’s Rolling Brick House, And More!

I know that cooking late is for the birds, but it’s that time of year where it’s difficult to tell whether it’s late or not. The sun isn’t supposed to set at four in the...

Wheelies, Rooster Tails, Jumps, More Wheelies, And More Rooster Tails From Glamis Halloween

Watching this video, which is pure fun on the sand, and features nothing but buggies, trucks, bikes, and UTVs doing wheelies, throwing rooster tails, and jumping at the dunes of Glamis over...