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Badges? We NEED Those Stinkin’ Badges! History Of The Most Familiar Logos In The Automotive World

The blue oval, the bow tie, the pentastar, the tri-shield. Just by naming these generic shapes, virtually every person reading this can identify what brands they are associated with. There are few...

Unexpected Hero: Watch This Vortech YSi Blown Porsche 928 Make 1,1113hp To The Wheels – Porsche Powered!

Want to talk about daring to be different? How about making four digit horsepower at the wheels with a Porsche 928 V8 engine! Carl Fausett owns this car and he is the guy who not only has developed...

Video Bonanza: 1980s Monster Truck Arena Show Screamer Ads – These Are All GOLD!

This is awesome! I randomly ran across a single 1980s monster truck TV commercial on YouTube and then I went straight down the rabbit hole looking for more, and boy did I find them. This collect of...

Speed Week 1957 Film: This Incredible Movie Is In Color, Has Full Sound, Narration, and Goodness!

The internet makes us smile REALLY BIG some days. Most others we want it all to fall down a hole but today is a big smile day. Why? Because have found a jaw dropping Speed Week 1957 film that shows...

Karl Fisher From Make It Kustom Shows Us How To Make An EASY, FREE, DIY SHRINKER TOOL! HOW-TO Make CURVED FLANGES on SHEET METAL!

In this episode, Karl makes a DIY shrinker from scrap he had laying around. And I know I could absolutely do the same thing with junk I have sitting around. I’m sure you can too. And if you...

This Bad Ass Jeep Is Showing Supercars What The Back Of A Cherokee Looks Like On The Way To Gapplebees

I’m a huge fan of things that haul ass, and especially things that haul ass but don’t look like they should haul ass. I mean sure this Jeep Cherokee has wheels and tires on it, and a...

A $1,000,000 RV That Isn’t A Toter And Stacker!? Touring a $1 Million SCANIA RV Imported from HOLLAND!

Bruce Wilson is an RV reviewing machine and gets some of the coolest access to stuff that you and I would NEVER get to see otherwise. And while all of us racers are used to seeing stupid fancy...

Sunbeam Tiger Video: Ride Along As The Tiny Small Block Ford Sports Car Rips Monte Carlo

While the Shelby Cobra is certainly the signature piece in the legacy of Carroll Shelby, the Sunbeam Tiger is another English/American mashup he had his hands in and profited from. The Tiger was born...

Watch The Awesome and Pretty Complicated Starting Procedure For A 1958 John Deere 820 – Pony Motor!

If there is a basic rule of life it is that any engine that needs or happily uses another engine to start it is pretty awesome and the big (400+ ci) two cylinder John Deere diesel is nothing but...

An Amazing Tale: The Story Of The Rotodyne, The Vertical Take Off Airliner That Almost Made It (Video)

When we think of failed aeronautical innovations we normally put them in the same category known as, “stuff that could not actually fly.” Well this video and this story will stand as...

Break the Record: The Story of The Blue Flame LSR Car – Absolutely Awesome Historic LSR Video!

Before the British Thrust SSC took the World Land Speed Record in 1997, it was held by an Earth-bound rocket known as, “The Blue Flame”. The car was built by Reaction Dynamics, the...

Is Goliath Really Sold? Really Leaving The Country? Together And Loading Up For The Last Time? Watch.

We all know that Daddy Dave Comstock built a whole new NPK car that debuted last year at the SEMA Show in Las Vegas and that he’s been racing and winning with it all year long. But he also...

Shop Shenanigans: Can The Iron Trap Garage Crew Get This Unknown 331 Cadillac Engine To Run??!!

I love all the cool old iron that the guys at Iron Trap Garage are always finding, because most of their stuff is at least 20 years older than the muscle car stuff I mess around with most often. What...

Budget Shop Truck: Squarebody Long Bed To Short Bed Conversion – CHEAP REPAIRS. Basic Patch Panel How To With A MIG Welder

This cool low buck shop truck build is turning out really cool and we dig it. If you missed it, the long bed became a short bed, using the stock bed with the smallest of cuts and welds so that the...