Diesel Power Challenge 2017: Here’s The Quarter Mile Drag Racing Portion Of The Event
After the trucks hammered the eighth mile at Bandimere Speedway in Morrison, Colorado the trailer was removed and the boys were turned loose on the full length of the track to run their stuff to the...
Watch Tim Cameron And His Rock Racer Dominate The Southern Rock Racing Series
Tim Cameron has been one of the big players in the world of rock bouncing and its evolution into rock racing through the entire history of the genre. The guy shows no signs of slowing down, either....
Diesel Power Challenge 2017: The Brutal Eighth-Mile Loaded Trailer Tow Competition
Well the NHRA Fall Nationals got all up in my business last weekend and I fell off the pace with sharing these cool videos from the 2017 Diesel Power Challenge. Today we’re back with the brutal...
The Cummins Powered, Air Bagged, Low Riding, Rat Rig Is Awesome (Video)
You guys know we’re freaks for old trucks around here and we’re also freaks for guys who do stuff that is outside of the norm. Such is the case with this 1941 International KB5 truck that...
American Powertrain Parting Shift: Ride Along As A Guy Cruises To Work In A Detroit Diesel Powered 1963 GMC Crackerbox
We have told you the story of the GM “crackerbox” trucks with their short, stubby cabs and fairly impressive service life but we have not showed you what it is like to actually operate...
Cool Video: Watch Big MAN Truck Engines Get Assembled From The Block On Up – Inliners AND V8s!
While the German MAN brand of trucks may not be familiar to Americans, they are huge over in Europe. The company started making locomotives in the 1830s and has been an industrial giant ever since....
Watch This Backhoe Operator Deftly Lower Himself Into A Storm Runoff Channel
Backhoe operators come in all shapes and sizes. There are the guys who rent them from a local place to dig a hole in their backyard and end up hitting a gas main, there are the guys who run the...
Winning: This Guy Has An Engine Dyno In His Living Room And He Actually Uses It
Most of us at one time or another have done some sort of automotive job in a place where we probably shouldn’t have. Maybe we washed parts in the dishwasher, rebuilt a Holley on the dining room...
Video: This Electronically Fuel Injected, Dual Overhead Cam, Miniature V10 Is Incredible
We have showed off some absolutely killer miniature engines here before but this one may actually take the cake. You are about to see a 1/3 scale miniature V10 engine fire up, idle, and get revved on...
Watching This Massive CNC Machine Create A Crankshaft Out Of A Piece Of Billet Is An Amazing Study In Technology and Engineering
As gearheads we’re naturally attracted to machines and all things mechanical, right? Well for us there is no higher form of mechanical life form than the CNC mill. These things come in an array...
Diesel Power Challege 2017 – Meet The Competitors And Check Out The Dyno Action!
Back in early June I hung out with a group of cool trucks and cooler guys as they participated in the 2017 Diesel Power Challenge. This is an event put on by Diesel Power Magazine where they solicit...
Hidden Gem: We Find And Check Out One Of The Coolest Old Garages In Wisconsin
(Words and photos by Greg Rourke) – Here in the Midwest when you have rug rats, vacation means the Wisconsin Dells. When the little darlings grow up and move out, the adults go to Door...
This 1985 Jeep CJ7 Is A Rig Done Right – May Be Late In The Season But We Want It!
I have always wanted a CJ Jeep. Growing up as a child of the 1980s I saw them everywhere and I thought their looks were awesome. In fact, when their square lens headlight replacements showed up the...
