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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Bitchin Van Man! This Laid Out Corvair Van Is Lower Than Low And We Dig It!

Vans are cool. Lowered, lifted, raked out, or laid out, we dig them. And what’s not to love? They are a truck with more storage space, a station wagon with more room for friends. And...

This Weirdo “Back Half” Chevy Dually Has Us Both Confused And In Love – What’s The Deal?

Admittedly we’re not fully grasping the whys of this truck but damn it if we’re not in love with the look. The 1965 Chevrolet truck started out as a one ton “3+3″ cab (three...

Watch The New Roadster Shop ColoRADo Truck Get Thrashed In The Desert After SEMA

The Roadster Shop has proved over recent years that they can literally build anything and do it as well as the best in the world do it. Last year their insane Camaro known as Rampage was the talk of...

This International Metro Ice Cream Truck Had The Whimsical Hot Rod Vibe Nailed At SEMA

Truth be told there are always about a dozen vehicles you see at SEMA that are totally awesome, brilliantly done, and about as useful as a slotted spoon in a soup eating contest. This International...

eBay Find: This 1943 Clark CA-1 Airborne Crawler Tractor And Scraper Are Awesome WWII Pieces

This would have been perfect to run yesterday on Veterans Day but I found this gem a day too late. Either way it certainly warrants being shared because it is BangShifty in every way. The fact that...

When Moving A Locomotive, The Shortest Distance Between Two Points Is The Easiest Route. But What If There Is No Track? Just Make One!

The locomotive you are seeing is an EMD F-7A, one of the most iconic shapes for a locomotive to ever exist. Built between 1949 and 1953, one of the F-unit series of locomotive prime movers, was a...

Cheap Truck Challenge 2015! Watch As A Flatfender, A CJ-5, A W-200 And A Kia Sportage Hit The Trails In Arizona!

Anybody who tells you that Arizona is nothing but sand and cactus is full of it. Head north…anywhere past the Mogollon Rim, the drop-off that separates Northern Arizona from the Mojave and...

This 1978 Barth Motorhome Is Big Block Powered Greatness!

It’s a sickness. My motorhome and RV affliction. And unfortunately for some of my friends they also suffer from it. It’s contagious apparently. That’s why my friend Scott Payton...

Optima Film Festival Finalist: One Minute And 10 Seconds Of Off Road Racing Insanity

We’re going to continue showing you the films that made the finals at the 2015 Optima film festival at the SEMA show because all of them are pretty flipping sweet. The other day we showed you...

BJ Baldwin Takes On Bruce The Sasquatch In Recoil 3 – Greatest Truck Chase Ever?!

Here it is, kids! Recoil 3, the hotly anticipated follow up to the first two BJ Baldwin action extravaganzas is hot off the presses and ready for you to watch. In this video Balwdin takes on a tough...

The Welderup International KB Ditch Digger Truck Was A Big Brown Hit At SEMA 2015

I have to admit that I am bad at television. I have not seen an episode of the Welderup rat rot building show on the tube but I have seen their work for years and I have liked most of it. I know many...

How They Did It: A Behind The Scenes Look At The Making Of The #HelloJetman Film

Perhaps the craziest thing about today’s world of huge budget internet video is the fact that not just one complete crew of video people is needed to make them but there’s also another...

SEMA 2015: And Now, An Intermission Featuring Pro 2 Trucks And The Parking Lot Out Front!

Had I known that at some point in time Pro 2 trucks were going to be raising hell in the Ford Out Front drift pit/arena, I would have sectioned off a set of time to go see it. You see, watching the...

This RC Pulling Tractor Video Is Great! Slow Motion Dirt-Flinging Fun!

We have showed you plenty of remote control pulling videos before but none with this level of production value, which is pretty low but does include some slow motion shots that are pretty cool....