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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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...

This Six Wheel Dodge Pleasure Palace Could Be All Yours For Just $3,000!

Ever looked at a 1980 Dodge conversion van and thought, “This bitch needs another axle.” You probably haven’t because you’re not on the level that the person who built this...