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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SEMA 2017 Coverage: The AxleTech International Independant Front Suspension System For Big Trucks Is Flipping Awesome

To be frank, I had no idea that there was such a company as AxleTech International. Knowing that you can forgive me for not knowing that these guys make what could be the baddest ass independent...

SEMA 2017 Vehicle Spotlight: The Hellcat Powered Prius From American Racing Headers Is Epic In Every Way

Not every car at the SEMA Show in Las Vegas is designed to impress because of classic styling or epic performance. Some are there just to grab as much attention as possible using pure obnoxiousness,...

SEMA 2017 Coverage: This 1973 International Loadstar Is The Work Truck From Hell(cat)

I don’t expect you to understand. Hell, sometimes I don’t understand myself but I know one thing. Summit Truck Bodies out of Kansas understands. They get the fact that there are plenty of...

SEMA 2017 Coverage: OMIX-ADA Absolutely Slayed Us With This Amazing Collection of WWII Era Jeeps – Learn Stuff!

So each and every year in a corner nook of the upper south hall at SEMA a company called OMIX-ADA has a display of killer Jeeps. Not Jeeps parked on each other or Jeeps that are on 26″ wheels...

SEMA 2017 Coverage: The 2018 Jeep Wrangler JL – The Biggest Calculated Risk FCA Has Yet Taken Has Broken Cover…What Do You Think?

FCA knows exactly where they get their money from…a four-letter word known and held dear by soldiers, farmers, and the worldwide public for decades: Jeep. J-trucks have come and gone, Cherokees...

SEMA 2017 Coverage: More Cars, More Trucks, and More Interesting Stuff Outside The Show

Our SEMA 2017 coverage continues with more images from outside the massive Las Vegas Convention Center. This year the process for getting into the show has changed with increased security so...

Joe Jones’ 1978 Crew Cab Dually SHORTBED, Is A Thing Of Beauty And Can Be Yours…If The Price Is Right.

It is no secret that we love all things dually around here. Standard cabs, crew cabs, extended cabs, super cabs, long beds, short beds, you name it. And we are also quick to criticize one that has...

Chadmouth: Why Is It That Virtually Everyone Selling Something On Facebook Is An Imbecile?

I’ve been shopping for a Square Body Dually for the past few weeks, and have been excited by the fact that never in history has there been more available resources or outlets to explore in...

The SEMA Show Officially Starts Tomorrow, But Here Is A Spotter’s Guide To Some Stuff We’re Excited To Check Out In Person

The SEMA Show is one hell of a car show…or at least that’s what a lot of people think. In fact, if we had a quarter for all the times we’ve heard someone tell us that they know...

Watch This Big Block Powered Swamp Buggy/Party Barge Wreck A Mud Truck In A Tug Of War – Southern Fried Fun

Yeah, yeah we know. Don’t go all Bill Nye the flipping science guy on us here. Clearly the large barge is heavier than the truck and has way more contact patch with the ground, but it is still...

Watch This Massive Power Stroke Powered Ford Truck Cruise Through A Pond, Frighten Police, And Dominate The Earth For Kicks

Often when we show videos of huge trucks heading into deep water, they all end the same way, with the truck tires up, floating like some sort of mobile diving platform. Not this time. In this video...

Tough Truck Racing At Dennis Anderson’s Muddy Motorsports Park: Low Level Flight And High-Intensity Durability Testing!

When you don’t care one iota about your vehicle, when it’s time has come, you call someone with a tow truck to drag it’s sorry carcass off to the giant metal pancake maker. When you...

HOLY COW! The Nicest Unrestored 1977 GMC Motorhome Left On Earth Is For Sale – This Is Amazing

While I can appreciate a good vintage motorhome, it is our own Chad Reynolds who is a complete and utter freak for these things. It is probably best that I was the one who found this on eBay because...

Teen Driver Warning: Weston Anderson’s “Bog Hog” At Dennis Anderson’s Muddy Motorsports Park!

Here’s the inevitable comparison: at fifteen, I was elbows deep in a 1979 Chevrolet Caprice coupe, trying to coax the 305 it came from the factory with back to life. Somehow, even after a...