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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Watch A 27-Liter Rolls Royce Powered Rover SD-1 Make A Dyno Pull And Make Some Header Flames

Big engine in a little car is pretty much the basic formula for success in the hot rodding world. Huge flipping engine in even smaller freaking car is the kind of math that BangShifters absolutely...

Red Heaven: We Visit The Incredible Paquette International Farmall Musem and Hall Of Fame

One of the highlights of a recent family trip to Florida was a visit to the Paquette International Farmall Museum and Hall of Fame which is located in the town of Leesburg. It was about an hours...

This 1981 Chevy C80 Is A Four Car Hauler/Rolling Stunt Launch Ramp You Have Always Wanted

You know, some vehicles are built for one purpose but can totally be used for another. School buses are regularly turned into campers, old flatbeds are made into car haulers, and  car haulers can be...

Test Your Gearhead Knowledge: The Answer To Last Week’s Impossible Question!

While there were a couple of razor close guesses, at the end of the day no one nailed this nearly impossible automotive quiz dead on. The bizarre looking device was guessed to be part of a hydramatic...

This European Pulling Tractor Rules But What The Heck Kind Of Engine Is Making The Power?

The tractor you are going to see in this video is named “Metal Boy” and it pretty much rules. The video contains a walk around and then it shows the tractor pulling the sled successfully...

Scrapple, Your “meh”-worthy News: The Brabus Range Rover Pickup, Mercedes’ Stupidest Quote Yet, And More!

Another week down, another roll of antacids needed for this round of Scrapple. There’s plenty of reasons to drown all of this with some strong liquor in here, folks! 1. Mercedes will not build...

This 1970 Mercury Colony Park Station Wagon Is A 429 Powered Survivor That Is Priced To Sell

In 1970, if you really wanted to impress the neighbors with your upwardly mobile lifestyle, you rolled into your local Mercury dealer and ordered up a family hauler like this. The Mercury Colony Park...

This 1972 Autocar Wrecker Was Custom Built To Tow The Seemingly Untowable – Twin 60 Ton Winches!

It is big, it is ugly, and it is armed to the teeth with pulling power. This 1972 Autocar wrecker was custom built by the seller years ago as a heavy duty rig. How heavy duty? His concept was to...

These Yamal Vehicles Look Like The Ultimate Tundra Toys Imaginable

Just look at that shot: a heavy-duty semi-tractor based expedition vehicle articulating in the middle on tires that you could probably run somebody over with and not hurt them. Iceland’s Arctic...

1980s Monster Truck And Pulling Time Machine! Check Out These Photos From A Show In Alabama

(Words and photos by Doug Gregory) – I think I have finally figured out why some of the pictures look better than others and have help up pretty well.  Some were placed in acid-free photo...

This Box Truck Hung Over The Side Of Interstate 93 In Boston For A Few Hours

With Route 66 the one possible exception, we shouldn’t be reporting on one particular Interstate route twice in three months, but Interstate 93 in Boston is proving to be the exception to the...

This 1951 Boyertown Tour Wagon Has A Weird Engine, Is In Immaculate Shape, And May Be The Coolest Old RV We Have Seen

Thanks for Jeff Lacina, we have this killer little 1951 Ford Boyertown Tour Wagon to show you. Built off a Ford “Merchandizer” forward control truck, this thing is in remarkable shape for...

The Rigs Of Del Mar – More Shined Up, Muscled Up, Or Ratted Up Trucks From Goodguys Del Mar

I was recently sampling some beers with a fellow gearhead and he proclaimed that “trucks are boring”. I restrained myself from hitting him over the head with a bottle, dragging him into...

This 1949 Studebaker 2R10 Truck Is Pure Original Stude From Front To Back – A Cool Workhorse Rarity!

If you like things that are good, you’ll really love this 1949 Studebaker 2R10 truck because it is a rare old Studebaker truck and secondly because it has not been corrupted, molested, or...