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Astonishing Carnage: Watch As The Industrial Injection Master Shredder Truck Explodes In Flaming Fury

When you take all the turbochargers, all the fuel, and all the nitrous and use them to make nearly 3,000 wheel horsepower in a full-race Cummins diesel engine, sometimes things go wrong. We have...

Money No Object: 1985 Crown Supercoach Tandem With Cummins 855 Big Cam

For the six years I spent attending school in the Pacific Northwest, I rode on a very different bus than I had ridden prior to. In Illinois, the school buses were Chevrolet and GMC 60-series...

Tiny Adventures: Going Overlanding In Hopped-Up Power Wheels

For the last couple of years, we’ve been showcasing the builds that the guys from Grind Hard Plumbing Co. have been putting out, especially the ones that involve a Power Wheels toy, a ton of...

Dusting Off The Gold Nugget: The 1972 Storage Shed Cutlass Comes Out Into The Light

The luck that this year has brought certainly smells like a nugget of something, doesn’t it? I think that most of us can agree that the only “nugget” that 2020 has brought us is the...

Project Bargain Racement: Building A Race Car From An $1100 Hatchback. What Could Possibly Go Wrong?

Come on, you’ve had to have heard dummer ideas than this! And it won’t surprise you to know that our friends from Bad Obsession Motorsports, the home of Project Binky, are behind this...

Rough Start: 1996 Ford Probe – Funny Name, Serious Business

When Ford decided that the rear-drive Fox chassis Mustang would get a stay of execution in the later 1980s, the car that had been tapped to replace it, a front-driver sport coupe developed with...

Racing Carnage: Watch As This Mitsubishi Eclipse’s Transmission Explodes During A Run

Collin Willshire is the owner of Jett Racing and the badass 2002 Mitsubishi Eclipse in this video. Don’t snicker at the idea of a badass Eclipse, this car has claimed the title of the fastest...

Holley MoParty 2020: The ChryCo Psychos Get Their Chance To Play!

For years now, Holley’s LS Fest has been the stuff of legends. So long as it has the latest in GM power under the hood, anything goes…come drag race, autocross, burn the tires to shreds,...

The Caddy Build Gets A ProCharger! Boosted Caddy Power For The Win!

Man this thing is awesome! Remember how we said the 500 inch Caddy was going to get boost from a ProCharger? Yeah, well here it is and it rules and we love it and want it. If you missed the first...

Historical Footage: The 1975 Chryslers Advertisement – A Calm Voice Covering A Panicking Company

No, it’s not Ricardo Montalban, but the voice-over for this television commercial for the 1975 Chryslers has many of the same qualities: caramel-smooth and calm delivery in a bass tone. The...

Morning Symphony: The Wail Of A V-10 Subaru. Yes, You Read That Correctly.

Subaru Imprezas make a pretty distinctive sound from the exhaust. We’ve heard it described as “growly”, “flatulent”, and “like a V8 with a horrible misfire”....

Bad, Bad Day: Watch As This Cruise Ship Swamps A Tugboat!

One of the many omens that have become part of the legend of the RMS Titanic involves it’s near-miss with the SS City of New York when the doomed ocean liner was leaving Southampton,...

Kamikaze’s Crash: How To Kill An El Camino In 3…2…1

Wanna know what happened? Wanna know how this thing came to be a pile of bent up stuff? Watch the video to hear it from Kamikaze himself. There are always different sides to every story, but this is...

A Wicked Chevrolet Cavalier? Well…This One Might Be Worthy!

I have a low opinion of Chevrolet Cavaliers. The first-generation boxes I’ve dealt with personally…a high-school friend had a two-door sedan with a five-speed that was nothing short of a...