Aftermarket Gossip: Is a Manual C8 Corvette Actually Happening? TREMEC’s Aftermarket Chief Tells All!

I realize the numbers are small, but there are people out there that would like a C8 Corvette with a clutch pedal. And as a guy who drives a stick shift car most days, I understand the allure. But I...

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First Drive Video: Westen Champlin’s Cummins Swapped Rolls Royce Is Something Special. Absurd, But Special.

I like a good Cummins as much as the next guy, but this is a bit over the top. Of course it won’t surprise you since it is coming from Westen Champlin, but at the same time it is taking the...

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Derek is Taking A 1,600 Mile Journey To Trade One Of Vice Grip Garages More Popular Trucks For The Ride He Sold And Instantly Regretted It

We’ve all traded or sold a car or truck and then regretted it. Sometimes that regret is as soon as the deal is done and sometimes it takes a week or month or year to realize that you just...

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Build Your Own Vapor Blaster At Home With A Harbor Freight Blast Cabinet, Including a Full Parts List!

Vapor blasting, or wet blasting as many people call it, is a media or sand blasting method that uses water and sometimes an added detergent. The water and abrasives combine to clean and slightly...

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Dirthead Shed Tire Testing: Putting Avix Trailtek R/T Tires To The Test As Butter Jeep Takes On Tough Moab Trails

Dirthead Dave is back at it, with the newly LS Swapped and running Butter Jeep out on the trails in Moab for a bit of tire testing. Dave has been wheeling Jeeps and everything else under the sun for...

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AS SEEN ON TV Tools that Beat Yours: Are As Seen on TV Tools Better Than We’ve Been Giving Them Credit For?

AS SEEN ON TV! We’ve all fallen for the trap at some point or another and bought some kitchen gadget, tool, or “performance” part that had huge claims as to how wonderful it was....

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Event Coverage: The DFW Performance Trucks Shootout At The Texas Motorplex – Bg Speeds, Big Fun

(Photos by Charles Wickam) – Whether they had the wheels up or they were cruising the pits low and slow, the trucks of the 2015 Dallas-Ft. Worth Performance Truck shootout were cool. The event...

Missouri Police Respond To Plane Crash Only To Find Shockwave Jet Peterbilt – This Is AWESOME

In a news story that we literally could not have made up ourselves, concerned neighbors contacted the authorities when they thought a plane had crashed on a local Missouri farm only for the...

Pulling Coverage: The NTPA Mule City 300 Was A Blow Out Good Time (Maybe Not For This Guy)

(Photos by David Whealon/DW Photos) – Yesterday David Whealon dropped all kinds of results and knowledge on us about who won each class at the 2015 NTPA Mule City 300 held on the grounds of...

Off-Roading An LMTV With Fred From “Dirt Every Day”…And You Can Own The Truck!

My soft spot for diesel trucks is right here, the Stewart and Stevenson LMTV. These forward-control beasts started appearing in the U.S. Army fleets in the mid-to-late 1990s and by the time I had...

WTF? Wednesday: Rednecks Racing Barbie Jeeps Downhill! Crazy? Stupid? Fun?

We have to admit that although we know bodily injury is virtually assured, we really think this is probably all three! Welcome to WTF? Wednesday! This video from Triple XXX Motorsports has got a...

The Dallas- Ft. Worth Truck Shootout Was Hot And Heavy And Not Just The Weather – Coverage Here

(Photos by Charles Wickam) – You may be thinking to yourself, “Wait, I already looked at photos Wickam shot at a truck drag race shootout?!” The answer is that you are technically...

NTPA Mule City 300: Flying Dirt, Huge Horsepower, And Big Performances At Galot Motorsports Park

(Words and photos by David Whealon) – When owner of Galot Motorsports Park, Earl Wells, announced the rebuilding of the old Dunn-Benson Dragstrip in Benson, NC it stoked everyone’s fire....

WTF Is Dodge Thinking? Why I Would Never Buy A Current RAM Truck

So I’m sitting in a rental Dodge truck at a race this weekend, enjoying the cool A/C and lack of humidity, while eating a mediocre at best Subway sandwich when I realize that the crap I’m...

KTPA/FFA Alumni Pull at Georgetown, KY – Trucks! Shots From The Pits And The Pulling Course

(Words and photos by Doug Gregory) – Truck classes are a big part of the KTPA-sanctioned pulls put on by the local FFA Alumni.  The two classes that ran on Friday night are limited to DOT...

Video: This Ford Flathead V8 Powered 1970s John Deere Lawn Tractor Is Homebuilt BangShift Perfection!

(Words and video – Dawn Mazi Hovsepian) – I don’t know which is cooler.  A ‘37 Ford Flathead stuffed between the frame rails of an early 70s John Deere 200 lawn tractor, or the fact...

Watch Four Humvee Trucks Get Sucked Out The Back Of A Cargo Plane With Parachutes – Very Cool Stuff

The biggest job the military has is to get the guys fighting the supplies and equipment they need in the quickest, most efficient way possible while making sure said stuff actually gets to where it...

This 1964 Chevy Dually Is One Of The Coolest Mid-1960s Trucks We Have Lusted After In A While

It is tough to claim that any generation of Chevrolet truck is “unloved” but the reality is that the square trucks of the middle 1960s are kind of the forgotten sisters of the Chevy truck...

Cute Burnout Video McTaggart, THIS Is What My Dream Mack Looks Like – 3,000hp Of Diesel Fury!

Yesterday McTaggart poked a little fun at me for my love of big rigs when he posted a video of a cool Mack Superliner truck ripping burnouts. That truck is awesome but when you want to go right to...

Event Coverage: Truck and Tractor Pulls At The TS Performance Outlaw Diesel Weekend

This is what you’ve truly been waiting for, isn’t it? High-pressure diesels, 2wd pulling trucks, and the multi-engined unlimited classes…these are what make a pulling event what it...