Newbern’s Ramp Truck Project Continues: Tearing Into Two Builds! C50 Cab Off Plus A Fox Body Engine Gets Pulled!

Newbern is back at it with another installment on the C50 ramp truck build. He’s taking a couple of donor vehicles and putting them together to make his dream ramp truck and we can’t wait...

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Big Power, Small Engine: Double Or TRIPLE The Power Of Your Predator Engine For Go Kart And Mini Bike Fun!

I don’t know any car guys and gals who don’t like mini bikes and go karts, and in recent years there is no better engine than a Predator from Harbor Freight. Freiburger and I built mini...

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This Crew Cab Dually Trade Road Trip Goes South For Mortske! Did He Get TAKEN Or Is This Just Lowered Dually Life?

When you make enough trades, there is no doubt that occasionally you won’t end up making out exactly as planned. Doesn’t mean the car or truck you trade for sucks, but maybe it just...

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Tool Testing: Mustard vs Ketchup DeWALT says their 1st Right Angle Die Grinder is 1.5X As Powerful As Milwaukee!

We love tool tests around here, and while we know many of you out there are super loyal to mustard or ketchup, aka DeWalt or Milwaukee, we’re not really that particular. Yes I understand why...

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Vice Grip Garage Annual Father Son Trip! ATTEMPTING 3,000 Miles In A VINTAGE BIG BLOCK RV! Cooking, Fishing, Museums and more!

A couple of weeks ago we shared the video of Derek picking up this machine and getting it ready to drive 850 miles home. Seemed like a pretty stout trip in an unknown RV, but that was nothing when...

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Freiburger Takes Us On A DRIVING TOUR of HISTORIC HOT ROD SPOTS Around Los Angeles! Too Many To Count!

There are tons of historic spots around Southern California that impacted hot rodding, racing, and custom car building over the last 80 years or so, but no matter how many you can think of there are...

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This Big Rig Pulling Truck Launches The Entire Engine Out Of The Truck!

(Lead photo from Jacked Up Motorsports FB page) We’re talking the ENTIRE ENGINE!!! The force required to actually have an engine remove itself is not measurable using the high tech devices we...

This 1976 Ford F-250 Crew Cab Is A Little Rough Around The Roof But We Love It All The Same

So I have been gingerly poking around the internet for a 1970s era Ford truck lately and while I have not found the truck I want to bid on, I have found a load of cool trucks that anyone who is into...

This 1953 Ford Promotional Video For The Golden Jubilee Tractor Is 1950s Gearhead Perfection

Ford has been in the tractor business for a very long time and the N-series of machines is about as timeless and iconic as some of the company’s better known car and truck models. 1953 was a...

The 50th Running Of The Baja 1000 Finished Today. Here Are The Results And Some Interesting Quotes

The Baja 1000 remains one of the coolest automotive racing events I’ve ever attended, and it pains me that I haven’t been able to go see it again for several years because it happens to...

Seeing The 50th Baja 1000 Finish Today Made Us Want This Prerunner GMC

Desert off-road racing is amazing to watch. The speed, the power, the effortless way in which big tires and suspension just soak up bumps. It’s almost as if they aren’t there, it seems so...

Help Us Name Our New Square Body Crew Cab Dually Project!

I’ve wanted a Chevrolet Crew Cab Dually since I was a kid. Probably since I was 10 or so, since we’d see them at the races all the time pulling gooseneck trailers and looking bad ass. Of...

Incredible Video: Watch This Guy In A Pickup Drive Into An Advance Auto Parts At Full Throttle!

Ever have a weird day? This cop has  a weird day in this video. The policeman was a responding to a complaint about an erratic driver. The guy who drew the attention was driving an F-150 pickup...

A BangShifty Hero With A Lathe, A Mill, and A Welder Built A Radial Engine Out Of VW Stuff Just For Fun

Sometimes stuff just “bubbles up” on the internet. This awesome video is proof of that. Originalyl posted in the late winter/early spring of last year we got a couple of notes via email...

Try And Rust Me Now! This Fiberglass 1980 International Scout SSII Needs A New Home!

While I have more experience with the Scout 800 series, the Scout II is no less of a desirable machine. International Harvester’s small-truck lines aren’t well known and useable examples...

Crew Cab Dirt Runner: Kibbetech’s Ford F-350 Is A Bitchin’ Behemoth!

The last time I paid attention to a Kibbetech build, it was the car known as the Trophy LTD: a Ford Crown Victoria turned full-deal desert runner. Everything about that car was both all wrong...

Three Big Rigs, One Pulling Course, And A Drag Race We’d Pay A Nickel To Watch Again and Again

It is pretty easy to figure out how this started. Guy one challenged guy two and guy three wasn’t going to let those two jerks think that their trucks were faster than his. Yes, you are looking...

Truckin’ Awesome: This B-Model Mack Wrecker Is Absolutely Awesome Stuff

(By Greg Rourke) – Alright Lohnes, keep it in your pants. It’s a B model Mack, it has a wrecker on the back, and two sticks protruding from the floor. Get a room. The B model Mack was...

Need A Motor For Your Kenworth? That’s All That’s Left Of This 2014 Kenworth T600 – Wow

Boy, this is not the typical thing to find on eBay. We happened across an ad for a 2014 Kenworth T600 truck which has been completely leveled in a wreck. The buyer here would be purchasing the thing...

General Rule: This 1987 GMC General Has A 35 Ton Wrecker On Its Back And Our Heart

Sweet baby towing company is this truck fantastic! From 1977 to 1987 General Motors was in the big truck business. The Chevrolet Bison and the GMC General were the machines they sold and it was the...