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Best of 2018: This Guy Drove Over 20,000 Miles In A TVR Chimera To Hit The Most Northern And Southern Pubs!

Sometimes you hop in the car and take off with no destination in mind…you just drive for the hell of it, stopping at places along the way and generally enjoying the trip, not caring about the...

Best of 2018: This Chevrolet Lumina Z34 Has The One Major Problem Fixed!

(There’s no time like the present to RWD swap every FWD machine! -ed.) I never thought the Chevrolet Lumina looked bad as a two-door, especially as the Z34. Sloping, aero-ish nose? Spoiler and...

Best of 2018: This Little Lady Is Restoring Her Own Volkswagen Beetle!

A common thread that pops up about once a month is how the car community is doomed because “young folk” aren’t into the hobby. “Young folk”, which essentially means...

Best of 2018: Watch as Mario Racicot’s 24-Cylinder Freightliner Argosy Threatens To Take The Weight Sled Home!

Information on what you’re going to see here is thin, but here’s what we have: You’re looking at a 2014 Freightliner Argosy that started out as a glider truck…that means you...

Listen To These Old Diamond P Sports Music Beds And Smile Like Us!

So about a week ago I wandered into a YouTube channel that had virtually every awesome music bed from the old American Sports Cavalcade and Diamond P Sports days of television greatness in it....

Best of 2018: This V6, Rear-Drive Converted Dodge Charger Has Been Built Right!

(Photos: Brad Zeidler) What’s the basics of hot rodding? You take something nobody wanted, and you make it faster, better and desirable. It worked for old Fords in junkyards when hot-rodding...

Best of 2018: Watch This Steam Tractor Pull A Lowboy Trailer With A Crawler Tractor On It Through An Intersection!

We have all been at a traffic light when a big rig comes around the corner with a lowboy style trailer hooked onto the fifth wheel and some sort of dreadfully heavy piece of equipment on its back....

Best Of 2018: 2018 Dodge Durango SRT: A Two-Step Program The Whole Family Can Enjoy

The sports-utility vehicle might have started off as a short pickup with a roof over the bed, but by the time I had become aware of cars, their role as a replacement for the venerable station wagon...

Best of 2018: The Lights Out 9 Crash The Whole World Has Been Talking About

DJ McCain and Jeffrey Schlein had one of the most memorable runs at Light Out 9. Unfortunately those memories were caused by some crazy carnage. McCain in a Datsun known as Bowser went into an insane...

Best of 2018: Watch Mark Woorduff Make A 4,300hp Hub Dyno Pull At Hyperaktive Performance Solutions

Now THIS Is a dyno video. You are about to see Mark Woodruff make a 4,300hp hub dyno pull at Joe Oplawski’s Hyperaktive Performance Solutions shop in Illinois. These guys put a big Manline hub...

Best of 2018: This 1960 Video Shows The Army Testing Rolling Fluid Transporters – Brilliant But Unsuccessful

Ideas, we all have them. Some are fantastic and go on to change the world, Spam as an example. Some are awesome on paper but in the end do not succeed in the real world and those typically out number...

Best of 2018: The First Gallery From Gravelrama 48 and Elimination Hill! Five Stories Of Sandy Gravel To Fight!

In 1993, I first picked up a copy of 4Wheel and Off Road magazine. My stepdad was deep into four-wheel-drives at this point in time and I had never been around someone that was. I liked lifted trucks...

Best of 2018: This Fantastic Tribute To Dan Gurney Tells His Story With Amazing Footage And The Man’s Own Words

The outpouring of emotion, admiration, and love towards Dan Gurney after his recent passing certainly proved just how big a deal this man was. From his driving talent to his engineering ability to...

Best of 2018: King Of The Heap #2, The Afternoon Session

By 11:30 a.m., when I had returned to NCM Motorsports Park from a meeting, the road course and 1/8th-ish mile had been shut down and the autocross was in full swing. Amazingly, the Lincoln Mark VII...