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Aaron and Emily Are Saving Their Own Tri-Five With Newbern And Brandon From Finnegan’s Garage

How did Emily and Aaron end up picking up Tri-Five Chevys with Newbern and Brandon? Well here’s the back story. When Finnegan and Newbern stopped in Texas last year to look at some roadside...

DIY Hydraulic Shop Press Build: Bigger, Better, Worth It?

Everyone around here knows I love tools and projects and making tools in the shop is always fun. But is it worth the time and effort to build your own tools? Clearly it isn’t always worth it,...

Car Show Photos: The Mid-Atlantic Indoor Nationals Delivered. Custom Cars Galore!

(Words and Photos by Joe Grippo) Long live the indoor car show, especially when it’s 30 degrees outside like it was the other weekend here in my home state of Pennsylvania. We got warmed up in...

CASEY DID IT! $3500 RAT ROD BUDGET BUILD IS FINISHED! TURBO, AIR BAGS & CHASSIS SWAP HOT ROD IS BUILT!!

The Casey’s Customs 1951 Chevrolet build has been pretty cool and feels a lot like his $1,000 budget F100 build he finished a few months ago. Because the budget is higher, this project has some...

This Slammed 1965 P10 Chevrolet Van Is Ready For Power Tour! Someone Buy It And Take Us With Them! q

I love P10 vans, let me just get that out of the way first thing. These cool little box vans were built to haul stuff. Deliveries, ice cream, milk, mail, whatever, they were built to carry stuff,...

OPGI Interior Parts Flash Sale! – Rehab Your Ride’s Guts and Save Big While Doing It! ENDS TOMORROW

Now’s the perfect time to get the interior of your classic GM car up to the standard you want it to be and all the while saving money! OPGI has launched an interior parts flash sale that is...

Not A Moment Too Soon: Toyota To Offically Unveil GR Corolla This Thursday -The Hot Hatch We Need

(By Tom Lohnes) – Well folks, the teasers are over. After three images, two videos, and two more final images that surfaced today, Toyota has finally decided to show us their new hot hatch on...

NO CNC HERE: Watch Scrap Steel Become Spur Gears Using Only Manual Machines!

We’ve got another Pakistani manufacturing video to share, and this one is pretty cool too. Not only are there no fancy machines being used, but the ones that are, look to be 100 years old. With...

Engine Tech: Junkyard Big Block Battle. Gen 6 7.4L vs Gen 7 8.1L

That’s 454 vs 496 for all of you cubic inch fans out there. Yes, there is 42 cubic inches more Big Block in the 8.1 but are it’s weird LS style enhancements enough to be the best big...

Iron Trap’s 1934 Ford Coupe “Beautiful” Replacement Engine Is JUNK!!!

Blowing up an engine in one of your hot rods sucks, but it might even be worse to get a replacement engine that you expect to be good only to find out it is also junk. Unfortunately for the gang at...

Sheet Metal Tech: How To Build A Wire Edge Panel

If you have been around old cars, you have undoubtedly seen a wire edged panel before. They are common on older British cars for sure, but also on lots of others. A wire edged panel is one where...

Who’s The Quickest And Fastest? Rivian R1T vs Ram TRX vs Ford Raptor vs GMC Syclone

Boom, it’s on! This is the strangest and coolest new truck drag race, that’s for sure. With the high power Rivian going up against the RAM TRX, aka the Hellcat Truck, and the lighter...

BangShift Daily Tune Up: The Demonics – Formaldehyde Injection

If there’s something wrong with retro-surf punk hot rod music than I never want to be right. This album was sent in by Harry and he said we should give it a listen. Well, it’s awesome and...

Dyno Fury: Watch This Malibu Punish The Dyno Rollers With 600ci and 800hp Worth Of Spray

This is one of those cool videos that does not have any carnage, explosions, busted parts, or high flying antics. Hell, we don’t even get to see how hard this thing spiked the rollers but what...