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BangShift Question Of The Day: Do You Want Hardcopy Repair Manuals For Your Vehicles?

The moment it rolled in the driveway, the white Camaro became an object of fixation. I wanted to know everything about it: how it sounded, what it felt like, how it drove…everything. All of...

This Rad 2-ton 1946 Ford Truck Makes One Hell Of A Regular Pickup That Will Scare The Neighbors

I love the fact that back in the day the differences between “big rigs”, heavy duty trucks, and regular trucks was sometimes not much when talking about the body, but was mostly about the...

Rename, Stat: Watch As The Nissan NP300 Hardbody Folds Up Like Origami In A Crash Test

Outside of the United States market, the Middle Eastern market is my next best-understood level for cars. Spend 26 months in one place where the only other things to look at involve sand, port-a-john...

Classic YouTube: Another Candidate For The Ultimate Camper Truck – This Tractor-Tired 6×6 Ford!

There are days where the whole “bigger is better” mantra starts grating on the nerves. When you are behind the wheel of a 23-year-old Chevy Tahoe, you should not feel like you are in a...

Eric Yost’s Drag Week Winning Turbo Small Block Is For Sale! Run 7’s With This Proven Combo In A Street Car!

Turbo Small Block? What? In the era of LS or nothing? Yeah, that’s right, Eric Yost has won Drag Week and Rocky Mountain Race Week with a traditional small block and a big turbo, in a street...

Pre-Running The BAJA 1000 With Cameron Steele And The Desert Assassins Looks Like A Riot

I’ve watched a lot of pre-running videos over the years, and while the teams doing the pre-running are serious and dedicated to making sure they have the route and their race trucks sorted...

These Off-Road Monster Motorhomes Are Expedition Machines, And Here’s How They Are Built

I’m an RV freak, everyone around here knows it. But I also really dig off-road stuff and when I see a motorhome that can go where these big beasts can travel I’m completely in awe....

That Odd Bark: The Blown V6 Holden Berlina Barks To Life For The First Time!

We were moments away from sending Scotty at Street Machine a message inquiring as to the whereabouts of the Holden Berlina that he had started to build into a supercharged V6-powered sweeper. To...

Ride On-Board With Mario Andretti At The Indy 500 In 1966. This Ain’t No Go Pro!

(Words by Scott Liggett) On board cameras have become the norm with most auto racing that is televised these days. Heck, anyone with a Go Pro has videos of themselves racing on various forms of...

The Floor Seems Colder All Of A Sudden: Uncle Tony Bought A Miata!

Is it fair to say that the Mazda Miata has a seriously screwed up reputation? Absolutely. Mazda looked back to the heyday of British roadsters and managed to engineer some reliability back into it....

This Is A Floppy Fiberglass Hood Repair Kit! It Also Ads Hundreds Of Horsepower And Makes It Better At Hauling Christmas Trees

This may be my favorite episode of Finnegan’s Garage. Not only is it full of the fun and power that we all know and love, but the dose of humor that runs through this whole thing is exactly...

Dyno Video: Single Cylinder Of Fury! 50ci, 70hp, and EGTs Hotter Than The Surface Of The Sun!

The other day we showed you a custom built V-twin that spun to 12,000 RPM and made 120hp which was designed for use in modified garden tractor pulling. Today we’re showing you another small...

Ride On The Roll Cage Of This Injected Ford Cammer Powered Dragster In New Zealand

The Ford Cammer engine was dubbed the “90-day wonder” when it first was revealed to the world after a crash program during Ford’s Total Performance era. Originally intended for...

This Video Of An Old Russian Truck Crane Lifting An Old Russian Armored Vehicle Ends The Old Russian Way

Truck mounted cranes are pretty amazing pieces of equipment. What they can lift, where they can maneuver, and how they pack all of that power into a relatively speaking “small” machine...