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...
Skipping On The Water At Night: Formula Offroad Showing Off In Tennessee!
Motorsports is a worldwide phenomenon, with different areas of the world seemingly fixated on a particular discipline. In the States, we tend to think of ourselves as the center of the universe in...
This Turbocharged Chevrolet Tahoe Could Be The Best SUV Option Out There!
Confession time: for the last couple of weeks, the wife and I have been looking at a potential vehicle change. Considering that our fleet has one full-size pickup truck, one four-door hot rod, one...
America’s Weirdest Truck Is For Sale – VTEC Swapped 1970 C60 Makes Our Soul Ache
So hey, this wounds my soul. BangShifter Austin Irish found what has to be the most insanely wrong truck in America. This one hits way too close to home as it involves one of my favorite body styles...
The Sherp Is A Weird And Unstoppable Russian Truck
We’re way late to the party on this thing but we had to tell you about it because it just so freaking amazing and BangShifty. This is the Sherp, ATV developed in Russia for people who want to...
Hydraulic Press Channel Goodness: Thermal Camera Catches Stuff Being Crushed
The Hydraulic Press Channel delivers again. There’s no end to this man’s creativity and frankly there is no end to our love of watching stuff get squashed flat by a press that exerts like...
