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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eBay Find: This 1969 Ford N600 Is Like A Big Red BangShifty Hope Diamond

I was scouring eBay last night for car haulers because those as things that I really want, cannot afford, and have no room to keep. Those are the key elements of any successful eBay searching...

B.J. Baldwin And Hoonigan Release “Recoil 2” Video: Flying A Truck In Ensenada, Mexico

Hoonigan and Monster Energy have been great about releasing racing videos that borderline on pure automotive porn for years. For rally racing, they have Ken Block’s Gymkhana series. Mike Ryan...

Action Gallery: Gravelrama 2014 – Competitors Attacking The Legendary Big Eliminator Hill! The Pea Gravel Mountain From Hell

(Words and photos by Doug Gregory) – Let me start by saying that though we don’t have a race track or offroad park next door to us, Central Kentucky is close to some many venues for so...

Action Gallery: More Mud Flying, Wheelstanding, Barely In Control Action From the Brazoria County Mud Drags

(Photos by Charles Wickam) – Just when you thought it was safe to go outside, we’re back with more cool photos from the recently held Brazoria County Mud drags. This MRA sanctioned event...

Off-Roading Greatness: The Upper Damnation Trail In Harlan, Kentucky

Summer is starting to slip away to Fall, and it’s a great time to go out to the woods. But what is there to do in the woods? For starters, there’s off-roading. Temperatures are cooler,...

Killer Action And Wild Mud Borne Hot Rods At The Brazoria County Mud Drags In Texas – Dirt Flinging Coolness

(Photos by Charles Wickam) – Charles Wickam had been dying to get back out to the races lately. This summer hasn’t exactly been the smoothest on record for Team Wickam but the reality is...

Watch As This Mudder Explorer Goes For Broke At Michigan Mud Jam!

Mudding requires three things in order to not sink up to the door handles: traction, power, and wheel speed. Put mildly, this monster Explorer Sport has them all. The engine is making some very...

Listen To One Of The World’s Largest Diesel Engines Start Up And Run

When your diesel engine has several staircases attached to it so that all areas of the engine can be accessed, you have a huge engine and this one was at one time the world’s largest, from...

Drag Week 2014 Roadside Find: This 1957 Chevy 1-Ton Wearing An Old Camper Is Perfection

Here’s a sweet roadside find from the road on Drag Week 2014 that we ran into yesterday at a route checkpoint. The truck was kind of hidden in the back but once my wandering eye caught it, I...

Drag Week 2014 Roadside Find: Muffler Car! This (Was) A Running And Driving Promo Vehicle

One of my favorite parts about Drag Week is the fact that competitors have to drive on a predetermined route to the next track. On the route they have to pay attention, wear seat belts, and stop at...

Watch As This Toyota Land Cruiser Takes A Lesiurely Swim In An Australian River

The standard rule of thumb when it comes to crossing a river in a car of any type is: DON’T. Ask anyone in Phoenix right now who had the misfortune of learning the hard way this week. But...

It’s Ba-a-a-a-ack! The Hot Rodded Volvo Tractor Is Back, With A Video To Show Ken Block How It’s Really Done

When we first saw footage of this Volvo BM Terrier tractor ripping donuts in the countryside a couple of years ago, we went nuts. Just the fact that someone stuffed a built Volvo turbo motor that, by...

eBay Find: This 1948 Ward LaFrance Heavy Hauler Rig Was The Toughest Stuff On The Road Back Then

When it comes to old trucks, I love stumbling over the stuff that isn’t commonly talked about. Take this 1948 Ward-LaFrance truck for example. This was a severe duty big rig back in the late...

Carnage Video: Watch As This Cummins Dodge Runs Away On The Dyno

Excepting very, very few circumstances, a runaway situation is pretty much a death sentence for a diesel engine. Once the oil starts lighting up in the cylinders it takes air starvation to shut the...