Aftermarket Gossip: Is a Manual C8 Corvette Actually Happening? TREMEC’s Aftermarket Chief Tells All!

I realize the numbers are small, but there are people out there that would like a C8 Corvette with a clutch pedal. And as a guy who drives a stick shift car most days, I understand the allure. But I...

Read more

First Drive Video: Westen Champlin’s Cummins Swapped Rolls Royce Is Something Special. Absurd, But Special.

I like a good Cummins as much as the next guy, but this is a bit over the top. Of course it won’t surprise you since it is coming from Westen Champlin, but at the same time it is taking the...

Read more

Derek is Taking A 1,600 Mile Journey To Trade One Of Vice Grip Garages More Popular Trucks For The Ride He Sold And Instantly Regretted It

We’ve all traded or sold a car or truck and then regretted it. Sometimes that regret is as soon as the deal is done and sometimes it takes a week or month or year to realize that you just...

Read more

Build Your Own Vapor Blaster At Home With A Harbor Freight Blast Cabinet, Including a Full Parts List!

Vapor blasting, or wet blasting as many people call it, is a media or sand blasting method that uses water and sometimes an added detergent. The water and abrasives combine to clean and slightly...

Read more

Dirthead Shed Tire Testing: Putting Avix Trailtek R/T Tires To The Test As Butter Jeep Takes On Tough Moab Trails

Dirthead Dave is back at it, with the newly LS Swapped and running Butter Jeep out on the trails in Moab for a bit of tire testing. Dave has been wheeling Jeeps and everything else under the sun for...

Read more

AS SEEN ON TV Tools that Beat Yours: Are As Seen on TV Tools Better Than We’ve Been Giving Them Credit For?

AS SEEN ON TV! We’ve all fallen for the trap at some point or another and bought some kitchen gadget, tool, or “performance” part that had huge claims as to how wonderful it was....

Read more

 

Blog War: This Vintage Tonka Mighty Wrecker Looks An Awful Lot Like Someone’s Project Vehicle…

How the hell do you argue against a vintage, all-steel Tonka toy? It’s impossible. I still have my all-steel Mighty Dump Truck I’ve had since…hell, since Regan was president,...

Blog War: No Hard Work Required With This Caddy-Powered 1953 Chevrolet Flatbed

Brian took a safe swing today with the Ford wrecker. Does it tick all of the right check marks? Of course, and it’s in decent shape to boot. While I struggle to understand how someone who...

Blog War: This 1954 Ford F600 Wrecker Has Lived In A Body Shop For Three Decades And Is Minto

So the dually blog war is in full swing now. Both Bryan and I fired our opening shots yesterday and we’re back today. Since he started off with a heavy duty truck, I’m following up with...

Blog War: This 1972 Ford Country Squire Dually Station Wagon Is The Best Of About 50 Worlds

McTaggart was spittin’ mad after his public defeat during our station wagon blog war last week so he started yelling over the fence at me about duallies and how he was really going to take me...

Blog War: The First Strike Is Delivered By A B-1…This Restomodded 1949 Dodge B-1

Just because the Wagon War wound down doesn’t mean that I agreed to a ceasefire. Watching Lohnes slide the pocket ace that was that L72 Kingswood drag wagon was like pouring jet fuel on a tire...

Watch This Naked Mud Truck Wreck At The Mud Down In T-Town – Crazy Stuff

While you may know Tulsa Raceway Park as one of the best strips in the country and the beginning and ending point of multiple Drag Weeks, the place has evolved and captured a big mud racing crowd as...

Ebay Jaw Dropper: The World’s Only 33 Window VW Bus Is For Sale In Hawaii And The Price Is As Long As The Thing Itself

I am not a “VW person” per se. I like cool old VWs as much as the next guy but I don’t live and die by them. That being said, I was blown away by this cool VW bus which has been...

Chaos: Watch What It Looks Like When Two Dakar Rally Participants Wreck HARD In The Bolivian Desert

We’ve often talked about the risks and dangers associated with races like Baja, Dakar, and others of their ilk. That being said, we’ve never seen a more stark representation of what...

This 1962 Willys Station Wagon Is Cool, Needs Work, And In Stock Form Would Lose A Drag Race To A Steam Tractor

So McTaggart and I have essentially agreed to end the station wagon blog war that we have been engaged in over the last couple of weeks. Much like the Korean War, we have not declared a truce or...

The Camaro TRAR Or The Kids In The Photos? Which Is Cooler?

When BangShifter Tyler Garrett, who drives a 4000 horsepower Coast Guard Cutter by the way, sent us this Craigslist ad for a 4th Gen Camaro TRAR (Truck Car), the email just said “Welcome to...

Will The New 5.0L Cummins Diesel V8 Save The Nissan Titan? We’re Dying To Drive One!

With compound turbos, dual overhead cam heads, loads of Cummins engineering behind it and 555 lb/ft of torque to churn the ground with, the new Cummins 5.0L V8 which made its world debut in the...

A British Airways Boeing 777 Set A New Speed Record Across The Atlantic – Just Barely Under The Speed Of Sound!

A British Airways Boeing 777-200 just set a speed record on the New York-London route by using the jet stream to bring the wide body jet to within 16 mph of the speed of sound. BA114 completed the...

Blog War Secret Weapon: An Immaculate 1939 Ford Woody Wagon 4×4 – This Thing Is AMAZING

Look, we’ve both rolled out wagons with crappy fake woodgrain on the sides but I’m the first to actually drop the woody hammer in this blog war and I am dropping it HARD. My choice for...

Watching Kelderman’s Bed Lift System For Medium Duty Trucks Work Is Pretty Awesome – One Strong Arm

So you may be wondering a few things after seeing that lead image. The first thing you may be wondering about is why anyone would need a bed lift. The fact is that there are LOTS of medium duty and...