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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When Things Go Amazingly Bad: The 2013 Norfolk-Southern Train Fire – The Biggest Engine We’ve Ever Witnessed Eating Itself Alive

(Lead photo by Dan Kohler) A runaway diesel is a scary enough situation in a regular motor vehicle, as we’ve shown numerous times before. But a runaway diesel locomotive engine is far and away...

Holy Smokes! This 2006 Police Spec Charger Has A Cummins Diesel In It – Burnout Video!

2006 was the first year for Dodge to jump back into the police car market with a cop-spec version of the four door Charger. The cars had hemi power, tough looks, and can still be seen buzzing the...

Just How Light Is The New Aluminum F-150? Let’s Take A Look…

Ford has been all over the idea of lightening up the F-series lineup lately, and we wondered just how much lighter the truck would be compared to it’s rivals. While the idea of constructing the...

Event Coverage: Hot Rods On The Water A The Geneva Lakes Antique And Classic Boat Show 2014

(Photos by Bob Chiluk) – A couple of times each year, one or more of our contributors finds themselves at a classic boat show and they inevitably ask, “Do you want any photos from this...

This 1938 Diamond T Model 80 Is One Of The Coolest And Most Rare Pickups Ever – Beautiful Truck Looking For Big Money

Sometimes things just don’t work out. This is true in life and in business. Both Mack and Diamond T were ultra-successful makers of heavy duty trucks during the 1930s and both of them decided...

Great Read: How An Old Willys Jeep Has Taken A Family Through 60 Years Of Fun And Adventure

We often show you cool videos from Petrolicious, but today we’re showing you a cool story from the website because it speaks to everything right and good about the gearhead world. We got tipped...

Someone’s Gonna Get Fired! Four New Chevrolet Trucks Involved In A Four-Car Wreck On The Way To An Unveiling

I don’t think “my bad” is gonna cover this one. Chevrolet recently invited dealers to come to the Wentzville, Missouri assembly plant so that they could take one of the first 65...

Someone In Florida Built A Horrible Looking Diamond Plate Body On A Postal Jeep And Wants $76,000 For It

AJ Cortes is the guy that we need to point the blame at for finding this creation on Craigslist somewhere in Florida. Look, the seller wants $76,000 for what you see here which is basically an old...

This Crummy Looking Ford Pickup Has A Fun Surprise Under The Hood – A Drag Week Veteran’s Project That We Love

(Photos by Keith Lopez) – Without people who can’t leave well enough alone, Bangshift would not exist. See, guys like Drag Week veteran Keith Lopez get something and they just have to...

Watch A 700hp Stadium Super Truck Complete A Lap Of A Drift/Autocross Course Up On Two Wheels – Fun Video

The Stadium Super Truck series has provided some of the most fun and impressive video of 2014. From the footage of them flying through the courses that they normally race on in stadiums to attacking...

Watch This Nearly-Stock YJ Wrangler Show The Mud Trucks How It’s Done

Mud truck are serious business. Big lifts, strong axles, tractor tires, and a screamer of an engine making all sorts of power are the needed to move a heavy truck through a good mud bog, especially...

BFGoodrich Pushed Their New Off Road Tires (mounted to wheels) Out Of An Airplane At 10,000ft To See What Would Happen – This Is Pretty Awesome

Before you launch into a “That’s CGI!” campaign, can it. You are wrong and we’ll prove it in the videos below. We thought for sure when we saw a film made by BFGoodrich that...

Train Wreck Video: Watch The Impact And Derailment That Caused A Louisiana Town To Be Evacuated – Unbelieveable!

A freight train in motion is an exercise of momentum. With rolling weights that generally go into the tens of thousands of tons carrying speeds similar to cars, stopping a freight train is the kind...

Is A Jeep Cherokee Held Together With A 2×4 And Ratchet Straps Worth $1500?

We’ve all been there. You are trying to sell some junk, maybe to raise money for something else, maybe to just get rid of it, and maybe because it is so terribly horrendous that you can’t...