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eBay Find: Have We Actually Reached The Era Of A $55,000 1988 Jeep Grand Wagoneer?

It is the constant debate when we look at everything automotive on eBay. How bad do you want it? How much money do you have to spend? How rare is it? How tough is it to find? These are the things...

Rough Start: Another Clean Oldsmobile Omega? Hey, It’s Christmas…Treat Yourself!

Five thousand dollars…that’s the entirety of the budget that the Rough Start series gets to work with. That’s not purchase price of the car, that’s the entire budget to start...

Thunderstruck: Cleetus’ Auction Corvette Has One Hell Of A Backstory! Hear How The Truck-Engined C6 Came To Be!

Every car has a story. Someone built it, someone bought it as a brand-new car and from the moment it rolled out of the dealership, the chapters unfold. Some cars have nice, boring lives of just...

Watch Tim O’Neil, Owner Of Team O’Neil Rally School Artfully Drift His F-450 Dually

Dave Nutting and I spent what is likely the most memorable day of our automotive lives at the Team O’Neil Rally School up in Dalton, NH a couple of summers ago. That was the day that we got to...

PRI 2018 Photo Coverage: We’ve Got A LOAD More Images To Share With You

(Photos by the author) – Well, the 2018 PRI show is officially our rear view mirror now. After a few chilly days in Indianapolis we came away with a much better understanding as to where the...

Crazy Video: Here’s Why You Never Want To Crash A T-Bucket – These Guys Lived

This is the type of video that makes the hair on the back of your neck stand up when you watch it and not for great reasons. Shot in South Africa about a year ago, things open up with an older guy...

Awesome Little Track For Sale: Tomahawk Speedway in Tomahawk, Wisconsin Could Be Yours!

When it comes to buying a racing facility there are about a million things to think about. Between the price, the strength of the business, the good/bad of he facility, what racers think about the...

Monday Shopper: 1969 427 4-Speed Chevrolet Biscayne – The Blue-Collar Bar Fighter

I will never get sick of 427-powered Chevrolet Biscaynes because I love the premise on which they were built. The Biscayne was the lightest version of the full-size Chevrolet you could order and...

Playing With Yourself: Watch As The Hoonigans Play Forza Horizons 4 With Their Own Cars!

I don’t know about you, but if my car ever made it into a videogame, I’d lose my mind waiting for the first chance to test out moves that I’d never, ever attempt in real life....

35th Anniversary: The Theatrical Trailer For John Carpenter’s “Christine”…She’ll Get You!

If you are a reader of this site and you know nothing of a 1958 Plymouth named Christine…you had better be young. December 9th marks the 35th anniversary of the release of John...

2018 Pumpkin Run Nationals Photo Coverage: All GM Muscle All The Time – Small Blocks, Big Blocks, and More

(Photos by Doug Gregory) – This will not be the Camaro-heavy gallery most will expect.  While they were there it wasn’t flush with examples of Pre-75 F-bodies. Some highlights – The blue...

Unhinged: Remember, Old Toy Cars Can Always Be New Again

Remember the joy of opening up wrapped boxes on Christmas morning, hoping that you’d get some kind of car toy? Remember any you got over the years? I can think of some, can barely remember...

Mooneyes XMas Party Show And Drag 2018 Photos Start Right Here!

(Photos by Cole Reynolds) If you are in Southern California during early December, then the must attend show is the Mooneyes XMas Party Show and Drag at Irwindale. After the track closed early this...

Winch Or Escape Door: Does A Trailer Escape Door Really Make Sense? Why Wouldn’t You Just Use A Winch?

On several occasions I’ve seen guys talking about adding an escape door to their enclosed trailers to make it easier to load a car. Besides being a lot of work on an existing trailer, I...