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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Here Are All The American Powertrain Shifter Fitment Options On TREMEC 5 & 6 Speed Transmissions For Your Project

Wondering if there is a way to get your Tremec transmission’s shifter to line up in your application? Have a weird one and want to move the shifter forward or back to make it just right? In the...

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FJ40 Land Cruiser Custom Fabrication: How To Build A Custom Roll Cage For An FJ40 Land Cruiser

Shannon and Jess are back at it on the FJ40 this week and this thing is coming along nicely. If you like a Landcruiser, you’ll dig this one. But if restored to factory is your jam, this one might...

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eBay Find: The Massey Assassin Is Completely Nuts And For Sale! Twin Turbo Small Block, Overdrive Transmission, And An Iron Tractor Seat

This is just your average, run-of-the-mill 1940s Massey Harris tractors that has been outfitted with air suspension, a twin turbo small block Chevy engine, an overdrive transmission, and is fast...

Mint 400 Race Preview Is The Most Intense Four Minutes Of Off Road Racing Video You’ll See

The famed Mint 400 off road race is coming in just a couple of weeks and this four minute preview for the event will have you on the edge of your seat the entire time. This is a reel of jumps, wheel...

Craigslist Find: A 1965 Military Alvis Stallwart 6×6 Amphibious Truck We Want Bad. Real Bad.

There is quite literally no reason why we need this truck. None. But that doesn’t mean we don’t want it really bad. And the fact that it’s less than 6 miles from my house is...

This 1978 Kenworth Big Rig Has Marmon Herrington AWD And You Car Buy It Off Of Craigslist

(By Greg Rourke) –  Marmon Herrington was an offshoot of the Marmon Motor Car Company, builder of the winning entry in the first Indy 500.  Walter Marmon later teamed up with Arthur...

The Bottom Dollar Blazer Project: Resurrecting a Yankee K5 Blazer From The Creeping Death

I have always loved the K5 Blazer, but I have two problems: (1) 99.9 percent of the K5s available have been treated to hockey puck lift kits and chrome directional wheels.  (2) I’m cheap, and...

Safety on the job site is no laughing matter. Well, maybe a little – Shake Hands With Danger Scores High On Unintentional Comedy (Video)

(Words by Greg Rourke) – Shake Hands With Danger is an industrial safety film produced in 1980. It was directed by Herk Harvey, best known as the director of “Carnival Of Souls”, a...

Effing Awesome Fail Video: A Massive Truck Tug of War Goes Very Very Wrong

Forgive us as we try to reconstruct the events leading up to this momentous video. There were cans, nay, gallons of Keystone beer chugged. There were minutes of angry Ford versus Chevy rumblings and...

Video Bonanza: Huge Ford Trucks Carrying Huge Wheelies On The Pulling Course And Slogging Through The Mud Pit

I am an unapologetic supporter of the growing movement of building huge trucks the old school way with 2.5-ton Rockwell axles, crazy leaf springs and big cubic inch fat block motors. The tube chassis...

FMC Built These Cool, Wildly Expensive RVs in the 1970s – The Cool Story Of FMCs RV Division

In the 1970s, a whole lot of car and truck manufacturers wanted to get into the recreational vehicle game. Instead of just shipping bare chassis to Indiana to have an RV builder throw a 1/4-inch...

2014 Toyota Tundra Platinum: The Guts With None Of The Glory

(Photos by Dave Nutting) – Before last week I had never driven a Toyota Tundra. I have always viewed the Tundra as something akin to a character from a 1980s spy movie. You know the ones...

King Of The Hammers FRIDAY Live Stream Is Up And Running! Click Here To Watch!

Every Man Challenge day today! This is when the “real” guys get out there and literally beat their junk to pieces. These are homebuilt rigs that aren’t to the level of the full tilt...

Watch Ryan Anderson Make The Greatest “Save” In Monster Truck History – Truck Goes From On Roof To On Wheels!

We love people who simply cannot admit defeat. Ryan Anderson, one of Dennis Anderson’s sons is that type of guy. Having grown up as the spawn of the man who is now the world’s most famous...

The Tale Of Two Mid-$8,000 Craigslist Finds: Part One – The Cool Ramp Truck

It isn’t often that we come across two “share” worthy Craigslist finds in a single day that are priced within just a couple of hundred dollars of one another. Channing Ivey has the...

Bitchin’ Gallery: 1980s USHRA Photos! Big Foot 1, Art Arfons, The Orange Blossom Special, More!

(Words and photos by Joe Grippo) – Growing up as dragstrip rats there was only three things my brother and I liked about the winter…going sledding at the golf course, the ISCA Custom Car...