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Million Dollar Hauler: Meet The Rolls Royce Silver Spectre…All $1,250,000 Of 700hp Shooting Brake

(By Tom Lohnes) – Do you ever yearn for a 2-door wagon but don’t want to be a peasant and buy a $280,000 Ferrari GTC4 Lusso? Well, Rolls Royce has the car for you, and there’s only 3 of...

Dart Machinery Block Prep Service Means That When Your Block Is Delivered, It’s Ready To Build

People have different needs when they buy stuff like engine blocks. If you are a builder maybe you want it as raw as possible to put all the tweaks and tricks you know into it. If you are a home...

Nightmare Fuel: This 1950s Video Shows The Effects Of A Nuclear Blast On Vehicles – Insane

This 1953 film taken at a Nevada firing range known as Frenchman Flat is important, scary, and captures one of the most interesting moments in the history of America’s nuclear arsenal. This is...

Great Drive: Watch British Touring Car Championship Driver Sam Tordoff Run From Last To Second In Porsche 356!

There’s some of you out there who will say, “Of course the guy who is a BTCC racer is going to fare well against mostly amateurs in old cars!” Your opinion is not wrong at all, but...

The One That Started It All – This Look And Drive Of The 1971 AMG 300SEL Is A Trip Back Into Racing History

These days we all know that when you see the AMG badge on a Mercedes you are looking at a pretty bad hombre no matter what size the car is. Back in the early 1970s AMG made its name with a behemoth...

This 1970s Promotional Film For The Sikorsky UH-60A Is Kind Of Weird And Awesome

The Skiorsky UH-60A Black Hawk is an amazing piece of military machinery that has been serving the United States and countries across the globe for some 40 years now. First flown in 1974 and then...

Carnage Report: Just How Jacked Up Was Cleetus’s Dale Truck On RMRW 2.0?

If you were following along on the live stream of Rocky Mountain Race Week 2.0, you probably figured out in a hurry that the “Dale Truck”, Cleetus’s Earnhardt-liveried Chevrolet...

The Hellcat Wagon Build: Mocking Up The Hindquarters

Buying a rare machine is one thing, but making your dream machine yourself by hand…that’s a long, drawn-out process that requires sharp skills and the patience of a saint meditating...

Evel Knievel: True Grit – This Documentary Is Pretty Awesome, Honest, and Fun

This is something else. Evel Knievel: True Grit is a documentary style film that was made before Knievel died and it documents many aspects of his life in raw detail. Knievel himself tells some of...

Would You Rather: Conventional Tractors From 1975 – Which One Do You Saddle Up In?

Big rigs were in their prime in the mid-1970s. Trucker culture was all the rage, CB radios were hip, and the lingo was just about everywhere. Movies, television shows, that C.W. McCall song...

Classic YouTube: The Drifting Camaro, In All Of It’s Glory

This footage is the ultimate bad influence. It’s the benchmark for stupid driving fun. It’s a goal that needs to be attained. It’s one of the first Aussie burnout videos I ever saw....

How To Build A Manic Power Wheels, Volume One: Frame Out The Build!

Ever since we first saw the Grind Hard Plumbing Co.’s Mustang start drifting at speeds more suited to a built quad, we’ve been hooked on their builds. In short order they have perfected...

Holley’s New Hemi Swap Parts For The Jeep TJ Just Made Your Homebuilt Hemi Jeep A Reality

The idea of stuffing a Gen III Hemi into a new Jeep is not something that became cool yesterday. It’s been a thing for a little while but it has been a bit of an adventure to actually complete...

Dual Threat: This 1978 Malibu Runs 8s And Is Also The Cleanest G-Body On The Planet

We have to thank our always vigilant internet sleuth Rocco for sending along the listing for this most awesome fat tired drag car. You are looking at what might be the nicest 1978 Malibu on the...