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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Safety First! Strap In With Harnesses, Seats, And More From RaceQuip. Check Out All The Options Here!

We’re big on safety around here and are sticklers on having the right safety equipment in the car and on ourselves, for the type of racing we’re doing. While a lot of the gear does cross...

Watch The Violent End And Aftermath Of This 8.3L Cummins Powered Minneapolis-Moline Pulling Tractor

Boost. It is that magical thing which turns mundane, run of the mill, engines into heroic piles of iron and aluminum. It can also turn those heroic piles of iron and aluminum into broken and costly...

This 1964 US Army Progress Report On The Development Of A Universal Engineering Tractor Rules

Here’s some cool footage for all of you heavy equipment dork out there like me. I found this 1960 US Army progress report on the development of a universal engineering tractor and it is pretty...

Steve Magnante Is Back And Truck Week Continues. Truck Week Feature #6 – The High Class Diamond T Rig

Here’s the sixth video of Steve’s Truck Week series! This time it’s a Diamond T. These were high dollar rigs back in the day. Check it out. Our friend Steve Magnante has been out of commission...

Facebook 5.3 LS Build: Part 4 – Honing The Block After Boring. You Can’t Make Power Without It! Powell Machine Builds A High Performance 5.3 Step By Step

Here’s Part 4 of the Facebook 5.3 LS build that Powell is doing. If you missed the first three videos in this build, use the link below to check them out too. We’ve talked about Powell...

Influence And Impact Episode 13: Mini Truck History Part 2 – Air Suspension, Body Drops, Wild Paint Graphics and Custom Metalwork

Here’s episode two of the Mini Truck episodes, but if you missed the first then just use the link below. I’m an unapologetic mini trucker. There was a time, not so long ago actually, where...

Steve Magnante Is Back And Truck Week Continues. Truck Week Feature #5 – We’d Love To Own This GMC 6000 Dump Truck.

Here’s the fifth video of Steve’s Truck Week series! This time it’s a big GMC 6000 Square Body Dump Truck. Our friend Steve Magnante has been out of commission for a few months as he’s...

NEW American Powertrain #SaveTheStick 5 & 6 Speed Shift Knobs Now Available Plus Cool New Hoodies And Swap Kits!

American Powertrain is always making cool stuff that we want to own, but it’s not always about their full swap kits and Magnum upgrades. Sometimes it is about their accessories and cool...

Zingers: A Brief History Of What May Be The Most Aggressively Awesome “Toys” From The Muscle Car Era

If you have ever seen a Zinger in person, it is something you’ll never forget and that you will want for yourself. I mean who wouldn’t want something that looks like a tiny version of...

Steve Magnante Is Back And Truck Week Continues. Truck Week Feature #4 – A Big Bad Dodge C800 Junkyard Find

Here’s the fourth video of Steve’s Truck Week series! This time it’s a big Dodge C800! Our friend Steve Magnante has been out of commission for a few months as he’s literally been fighting...

Halfass Kustoms 1949 GMC Roadster Pickup Custom: Building A Tube Frame For The Custom Bed

In the last video, Brent started working on his vision for the bed, and in this one he’s got a full tube structure going together. It’s interesting and we think this thing is going to be...

An All-Aluminum, Flat-Plane Crank, DOHC V8 in 1940! Ford’s 1,100ci (18L) GAA V8 Is a WWII Marvel!

The Godzilla might be a beast, but it’s tiny compared to the all aluminum, double overhead cam and flat plane crank equipped, 1,100 cubic inch V8 that Ford built in 1940. Yeah, 1940! This is...

Facebook 5.3 LS Build: Part 3 – Boring The Block. Powell Machine Builds A High Performance 5.3 Step By Step For You!

Here’s Part 3 of the Facebook 5.3 LS build that Powell is doing. If you missed the first two videos in this build, use the link below to check them out too. We’ve talked about Powell...

Cool Old Press Photos: Here’s The Introduction For The ’57 Ford C-Series Cab-Over Truck – They Built These Until 1990!

We’re truck freaks, so when we saw this photo and release in our pile of goodies we had to share it for a few reasons. It’s cool as hell being the major one. Ford produced this style of...