Hydraulic Press Channel Craziness: Crushing A Portable Charging Pack Is The Most Spectacular Thing Ever
Well this is something interesting. Our man at the Hydraulic Press Channel has a twofer for us in this video. For starters he takes a standard cruising model tablet and gives it the business on his...
Rough Start: The Work Truck Kick Continues With This Low-Buck Chevy Dually!
Yep, I’m still stuck on the idea of a purposeful work truck for BangShift Mid-West. We already have a truck, but that would be the wife’s Silverado SS, and the last time I used it as a...
Hoonigan Improves A Land Rover Discovery’s Reliability Using A Cummins R2.8 Swap!
Maybe it’s because I’m that much of an auto nerd, but I love Land Rover Discoverys, if for only one reason: Camel Trophy. In the 1990s, photographs and footage of Discos submerged under...
This Hemi Powered D100 Gets An Aeromotive Phantom In-Tank Fuel System
(Words and Photos by Matt Graves) Hot Rodding, at it’s core, is basically upgrading old stuff with bigger and faster stuff. Sometimes this means embracing new technology with some of us kicking...
A Home-Built RV That Isn’t Scary! This 1942 Chevrolet G506 Army Truck Is Beautiful!
World War II ramped up manufacturing in the United States like nothing else had before. Factories cranked out ships, planes, trains and trucks by the millions in the name of the War Effort. Everyone...
Nothing But Cars For Sale And On Parade At The Pomona Swap Meet
(Photos by Chad Reynolds) The Pomona Swap Meet was huge and awesome, as usual, which is why we always go! It’s a riot hanging out with friends, looking at cool parts, laughing at stuff we find,...
Trick Truck: This Dump Truck Is Parts Weird, Cool, and Fun – A Wisconsin Roadside Find
(By Greg Rourke) – I love Wisconsin. Home of the Merrill Ice Drags, Snap On Tools, and the greatest bartenders on planet Earth. It’s said that more brandy is consumed in Wisconsin than...
Thump Truck, Russian Style: This BMW-Powered ZiL-130 Might Look Rustic, But She’s A Runner!
On initial appearances, the blue dump truck looks like your typical Russian medium-duty unit. Sure, it’s super-sano clean, but this ZiL-130 could potentially be as old as the late...
Rough Start: This International Flatbed Is A Work-Truck Dream!
As Angry Grandpa got his bath at the local car wash, I walked over to the Toyota dealership that is butted up right next door to walk through the used car sections to see what was available. Most of...
This Chrysler Promotional Film For The Dodge Power Wagon Is Awesome – WWII Was Fresh On Their Mind
There are few vehicle nameplates that we associate more with WWII than Jeep and Power Wagon. There’s something just totally awesome about these tough as nails trucks that wee built to meet the...
The Jokes Write Themselves: 44,000 Pounds Of Steel Balls Flopped Out Of A Truck In Seattle
A key point for any driver to ram into the back of their brain about driving is “expect the unexpected”. Once you get comfortable behind the wheel, you get complacent. Once you get...
Here’s A Craigslist Ad For A C-10 That You Are Not Likely To Soon Forget
People send in Craigslist ads and story ideas to us all the time. And sometimes people send us funny Craigslist ads. Often those funny ads are too “colorful” in the language department to...
Historical Video Fun: This 1956 Air Force Video About B-52 Take Off Procedures Rules
I have huge respect for pilots. I fly a metric ton during the year and as of this moment I have logged about 118,000 miles in the air since January. These are the men and woman who make the decisions...
Gearhead Americana: Men, Women, Mechanics, Machines of Speed, and Machines of War
(All photos from Library of Congress Digital Archive) – So my romp through the seemingly endless photo archive at the Library of Congress website continues. This week I decided to hone in on...
