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The Perfect Daily Driver Is Back! 1987 Chevrolet Cavalier Z24, With Blown 3.8L V6 And Five-Speed!

Last Spring, after seeing what my travel schedule looked like, my wife decided that it was high time that we purchase a fuel-mileage oriented car. I conceded. Nothing against Angry Grandpa’s...

Spitting Hot Truth: DeBoss Garage Talks Through Everything Wrong With The Cummins 4BT

In the list of “miracle” engines these days, the famed Cummins 4BT “bread truck” engine is one of them. It is no where near our mechanical savior the LS but there are so many...

BangShift Project Files: 1991 Chevrolet Lumina Z34 Preparing For An LS4 Swap

I’m old enough to remember seeing Luminas like this one everywhere. I’m young enough to not quite fully understand why everybody hated them as much as they did. So bear with me on that,...

Does The Supra Have A Super Future: Our 13-Year Old Analyst Looks Into The Crystal Ball To See!

(By Tom Lohnes) – The 5th generation of the Toyota Supra is not without its haters. The Supra which shares its basic chassis and engine with the BMW Z4 is a solid contender in the modern...

The Half-Dead Hornet Trip, Part 3: The Wagon Lives! Firing Up A Long-Dormant Sportabout X

In the last installment of Jacob Davis’s descent into Kenosha madness, he was on the road driving a Hornet coupe behind his father’s truck, which was towing the Sportabout X wagon that he...

Watch This 2,000hp Big Rig Eat Up A BMW M5 At The Drag Strip From The Hood Of The M5

Canada’s Sylvain Noel owns and operates one of the most powerful hot rodded big rigs in the world. His truck makes a reported 2,400hp and somewhere in the neighborhood of 3,000 lb/ft of torque....

You Failed: The Right And Very Wrong Way Of Running A Confidence Course In An LMTV!

If you thought teaching a teenager how to drive for the first time was a nerve-wracking experience, sit in the passenger seat as a young soldier prepares to drive something much, much larger than...

Video: The 10 Craziest Cars Ever At The Goodwood Festival Of Speed – This Is An Awesome Group!

We love following the Goodwood Festival of Speed, the Goodwood historics, the whole thing. So when these guys put out a video that claims to show the 10 craziest cars in the history of the festival...

Rough Start: 1977 American Motors Matador Sedan – Well, The Paint’s Done!

If you are considering a project car for the first time, and you’re running on a budget like the Rough Start setup of $5,000 total for a running, driving car, don’t think that...

This Is Road Racing: Watch Two Classic Porsches Slice, Dice, and Battle Within Inches On A Road Course In France

The title says it all. THIS is road racing. Take two classic Porsches and place them on the undulating 2.3 mile road course at Dijon-Prenois, France and you have some magic. The way that driver...

Morning Symphony: Playing In The Dirt With Some Neat Toys

Virtually every summer night from grade school through early high school, the scene played itself out many times over: as the sun was finally disappearing behind the trees late in the evening,...

Hot Farm Pulling Action Video: No You Sicko, Not That Kind Of Hot! We’re Talking Hot Farm Tractors!

When it comes to pulling, one of the things that’s lost on a lot of people are the differences in the classes. The video we have for you below today features the Hot Farm Tractor class which is...

Do It Yerself Wiring Kit: The LeManster Project Gets A Home-Built Wiring Job!

For a car that spent decades rotting away in damp soil and the occasional flood situation, the “LeManster” Pontiac that Junkyard Digs has been working on is coming together pretty...

Celebrate Ford Big Block Stroker Day By Watching These 514ci Blue Oval Bombs Working In Various Situations

The venerable 514ci Ford stroker has been used in a variety of applications from pulling to drag racing to street machines for many years. Since today is 5/14 we figured that it was a great time to...