Big Rig, Meet Train: Watch As This Brandt-Peterbilt Power Unit Crates Around Railcars!
For years, my dad was a long-haul trucker. We picked him up from the truck, we drove him to the truck, and in-between, the eighteen-wheeler Kenworth that he piloted pretty much dictated every last...
These VW Camper Vans Were Resurrected From Their Graves In Wyoming After Being Forgotten
I love campers and camper vans, and I’m also a big fan of VW vans, so when I saw this story about VW Camper Vans that had apparently been all but forgotten in Wyoming I had to check it out....
Wanting Your Own Square-Body Crew Cab Dually Of Your Very Own? This 454-Powered 1986 Model Is For Sale For Reasonable Cash!
One of the bigger deals of last year was Chad’s hunt for a square-body GM crew cab dually pickup. The Bearded One had a very particular shopping list: must be two-wheel-drive, big block...
Peterbilt Produces Its 1,000,000th Truck – Huge Milestone For Legacy Trucking Brand
Peterbilt has been one of the premier names in the world of Class 8 trucking across North American since the company’s founding in 1939. Through the ups and the downs in the economy, through...
Ultra4 Rigs Meet Hillclimbing! Who Wins? We All Do! (Just Kidding…The Hill Wins!)
Ultra4 racers are the kind of rigs that you see at King Of The Hammers. They are brutal units that have to survive the worst that California can throw at them, and range from UTV runners to the...
Cooler Heads: Is This Guy Selling A Head Assembly From A Wright R-1820 Engine Off Of A B17 Bomber?
WWII was a war largely fought with piston engines. Trucks, tanks, Jeeps, airplanes, ships, and tractors all used pistons in the first fully mechanized war the world had ever seen. The advancements...
The Swiss Army Knife Of Custom Machines Is Up For Auction – The 2009 Dobbertin HydroCar Can Be Yours!
Rick Dobbertin’s 1965 Chevy II and 1985 Pontiac J-2000 are well-known and appreciated within the automotive community for what they were at the time: builds that were further advanced than...
More Wintertime Fun: Semi-Truck Donuts In The Snow!
Once again, there’s snow at BangShift Mid-West and I’m not playing in it. Adding insult to injury, I’ve had the fun of trying to extract my neighbor’s pickup truck from the...
The Ridetech 48-Hour 2nd Gen Camaro Build Is On At Barrett-Jackson! And It Sure Is Fun!
This is our 4th 48-Hour build and this time it is a bitchin orange 1970 Camaro that is getting the full boogie build LIVE at Barrett-Jackson with a full audience and everything. The car is getting a...
Here Is Your Tuesday Afternoon Barrett-Jackson Scottsdale 2018 Photo Update
It’s Tuesday and the sun is shining bright in Scottsdale Arizona at the Barrett-Jackson auction which means both the weather and the hot rods are hot here in Arizona. We’ve been posting...
Wanna Buy A SEMA Truck? This 2017 6×6 SEMA Jeep Truck Thing Is For Sale
As we have often told you, SEMA vehicles lead weird lives. They are often built in an insane thrash, then they are lionized at the show in Las Vegas and often, like this one, they are sold to the...
Unveiled: 2019 Ram – An All-New Truck To Compete In The Heated Marketplace!
Ram, like Dodge before the split, refreshens trucks on a glacial scale. The current generation has been on sale since 2009, and while that isn’t nearly as long as the D/W-series’...
My Kinda of Dually: This 2003 Chevrolet Is A Duramax Powered, Single Cab, Stick Shifted, Unicorn Of A Truck
Dualie trucks have been all the rage around here recently with Chad having scored a vintage 1980s big block crew cab version for himself and both McTaggart and I scouring the internet for other cool...
