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Heaven For A Hot Rodder: Take A Tour Of A Goldmine Yard With Vice Grip Garage!

It’s a sad fact: the old yards are going away. The classic metal, the cars of years gone past, are vanishing…either the collector has passed on and the kids want nothing to do with it, or...

Stroker Heap: This Jeep Stroker Six Budget Build Is A Bad Little Piece!

Is a V8 always the right answer? Okay, put your middle fingers down, it’s always a good answer, but sometimes it might not be a right answer. Case in point: I’ve been plotting out a...

Do The Modified Quarter Windows On This 1973 454 SS Chevelle Make You Not Want To Buy It?

Sometimes people do the strangest things to cars. I’ll give you that they usually don’t realize that a car might someday be worth something, but still. This 1973 Chevelle SS 454 is one...

What Motorsport Event Would Be Your First Choice To Attend For The First Time?

With NHRA’s US Nationals at Indy coming up, and Bonneville Speed Week concluding not long ago, it got me thinking about the motorsports events that fill my thoughts and desires most. Those...

August 2019 Somernites Cruise: We Stop In For An All-Things Mustang Showcase!

Every month from April to October, the town of Somerset, Kentucky proves that it is worth the title of “The Car Cruise Capital of Kentucky”. Their events are always free, happen...

For That Smooth Feeling: The Modyssey Gets A Long-Travel Suspension Setup!

The last time we saw this Honda Odyssey, it had been stuffed full of snowmobile engine and was churning up dirt around Grind Hard Plumbing Co.’s “test area” with ease. It is a...

Will A One-Inch Cordless Impact Gun Start This Ancient Tractomotive? Will It Start At All?

Have you ever looked at something sitting in the weeds and with a sigh, thought to yourself, “Yup…that sucker ain’t ever running again”? The car that is up to it’s hubs...

More Photos From Bonneville Speed Week 2019: We’ve Still Got Hundreds More Photos To Share

Bonneville is a very special place. It is historic, it is beautiful, it is a natural wonder. And it is the home of horsepower in so many ways. We told you we’d have more photos coming and we...

The Caddy That Kicks Ass Is On The Market! Nitrous SBC, And Plenty Of Fluffy Comfort Too!

A couple of years ago I met Arthur Petry and his 1983 Cadillac Coupe deVille, a car that I dubbed “The Caddy that Kicks Ass”. My first note was that I was seeing a super-clean box Caddy...

This 50 cc Bonneville 2-Stroke Motorcycle Build Is An Exercise In Home Grown Machining And Building Worth Watching

Sometimes it surprises me the things that people can make with the simplest of tools. We’re so used to CNC machines and high tech tools that we sometimes forget just how good the right saw,...

This Vintage 1971 Mustang Fiberglass Funny Car Body Could Be The Ultimate Artwork For Your Shop!

I’m in the process of building a new house and shop in Texas and have been looking for cool wall and shop art for the new place to make it look BANGshifty and cool. I don’t need anything...

Morning Symphony: The Burnyard Bash At Irwindale – When You Just Need To Unwind The Steel Belts!

It’s been a long damn week. Meetings that should have been emails at the best of times, traffic jams that would drive the Chinese nuts, and if your cell phone goes off one more time, something...

Billy Morris Wild Top End Ride In “Problem Child” Camaro at Spokane!

(Video by Darr Hawthorne) Billy “the Kid” Morris is in his second season driving a nitro funny car in the NHRA Heritage Series and United Nitro Funny Cars events. He was voted Legends of Nitro...

You’re Welcome, Lohnes: This 1956 GMC Is Brought Back To Life After 26 Years In A Field

You know, it doesn’t seem right that Lohnes doesn’t have a project vehicle. We know, we know…he’s super-busy with his NHRA duties, and we wouldn’t want to take a second...