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Cool Stuff: Aeromotive Fuel System Power Planner – Lay Out Your Fuel System Online!

One of the most handy things that we have run across to help hot rodders with their builds is the Aeromotive Fuel System Power Planner. This neat tool allows you to pick the parts and pieces needed...

Russian Fun With A Kenworth: Tow Challenges All Around!

As someone who hasn’t driven anything bigger than a one-t0n dually in about ten years, I often find myself wondering what it’s like to put power down in a semi tractor. I know plenty of...

Life Insurance Doesn’t Cover This: Britain’s Mad Scientist Creates A Jet-Powered Swing

While we’re not that familiar with how health and life insurance works in the U.K., we do have to wonder if anyone within the insurance system understands just what it is that Colin Furze...

Nitro Of Another Kind: This Hill Climb Bike Sounds Angry On A Full Load Of The Good Stuff

Drag racers kind of have the market cornered on nitromethane fueled excitement…or so they think. There are actually more an a few types of motorized fun that used the good fuel but the one that...

BangShifty Video: Watching This Old GMC 7500 Dump Truck Work Is Mesmerizing

(By Greg Rourke) – I’ve always been infatuated with big trucks and equipment. When I was 5, they were building a road near my grandparents house, and Grandpa knew a guy hauling gravel...

Rough Start: Think About Winter When Looking At This 1984 AMC Eagle Sedan

Late July…the heat is on, the grass is tall, the sunburn cream is always a welcome sight, and everybody is complaining about how hot it is, how many bugs there are, and how sweaty they are...

Morning Symphony: The Chevrolet Cobalt We Want To Drive

My introduction to the Chevrolet Cobalt was actually a pretty strong argument for the car. While occasionally using an early 2000s Chevrolet Cavalier government-special sedan as a motor pool car (and...

The dedication ceremony at the GM Technical Center in 1956 must’ve been amazing

Given GM’s current recall woes, its financial trouble and its controversial bailout by the Feds, it’s hard to remember a time when the future looked like it was happening right inside the...

Too Fun, Must Be Outlawed: A Look Back At The Honda ATC200X Three-Wheeler

An automotive delinquent just doesn’t happen overnight. They are groomed and slowly brought into the world of loud engines, sideways antics and the fun that can be had. For many kids, an ATV or...

Rough Start: 1986 Ford LTD Crown Victoria Pre-Runner – Go Do Something Fun!

I’ve driven expensive cars, I’ve driven new cars, I’ve driven some pretty speedy cars. But the best cars I’ve driven tended to be low-buck, broke-ass rides that earned their...

Money No Object: 1961 Pontiac Catalina Safari with 389 Tri-Power

“You can sell a young man’s car to an old man, but you can’t sell an old man’s car to a young man.” Semon Knudsen knew exactly what he was doing the moment he took over the reins at Pontiac...

Here’s What It Looks Like When You Squash An Automotive Coil Spring With A Hydraulic Press

Just when you thought the guy at the Hydraulic Press Channel on YouTube would run out of ideas, he concocts his most genius test of potentially deadly strength yet! In this video you will see a coil...

Watch This Formula Vee Racer Get Caught Up In Someone Else’s Problem And End Up On His Head

There’s an old racing adage that goes something like, “You can’t win a race on the first lap but you can certainly lose one.” This video stands as 100% factual backup to that...

Spectator Drags At Seekonk – A Little Bit Of This, A Little Bit Of That

We all know that Brian’s one true passion is drag racing. He’s been doing it for years and he’s proven to be absolutely amazing at his craft. Hearing him on the mic is today’s...