Bottom Dollar Blazer Project – Episode 5: MY PARTS ARE HERE!
OMG, Mr. Brownpants is here, Mr. Brownpants is here, and he has my parts! I’ve been waiting for this day, and it’s finally here! This is basically the shipment that’s going to turn...
Video: Fred Williams Is A Lunatic And Is Building A Go-Kart From A Motorhome Chassis – DO WANT
Fred Williams of Peterson’s 4-Wheel and Off Road is a certified nut and he’s a pal of Chad and I. The guy is a heck of a fabricator and someone who truly loves trucks, off roading, and...
Size Matters Two Film Coming – We Have The Preview Video! Big Rig Bad-Assery
We all remember the awesome Size Matters video featuring the huge hot rodded Freightliner of Mike Ryan. Well as we told you in January, Ryan and a team had concocted a new video and were working to...
Bottom Dollar Blazer Project – Episode 4: Off to the body shop
As you’ve probably seen the last few weeks, I’ve been doing a lot of prep work on the Blazer to get it ready to head to the body shop. It needs new rockers, new doors and a bit of work to the...
eBay Find: This 1977 GMC Astro 95 Is A Barn Find Big Rig Formerly Owned By NASA
The GMC Astro 95 had a good, long production run. Starting in the late 1960s and ending in the later 1980s, GM produced LOTS of these trucks in varying lengths and with all different kinds of...
When The Billet Cam In A Worked Up Diesel Fails At 4,000 RPM and 100psi Of Boost On The Dyno Bad Things Happen
One of the events I am super excited to be back at this year is the Diesel Power Challenge. This is the diesel truck guy equivalent to Drag Week that pits some of the nation’s hairiest...
eBay Find: Bobbed Deuce And A Half + 1970 Chevy Truck = Tough Job With Stunning Results
The only crappy part about owning this truck is that people will just look at it and assume all the builder did was to somehow jam a Chevy body onto a frame from an M35A deuce and a half army truck,...
Accidental Treasures: Stuff I Found in my ’79 Blazer
Over the last few weeks, I’ve published a few stories about the work I’m doing on my ’79 Blazer. You’ll read more about it every Friday for the next few months. I really got...
eBay Find: This 1964 Ford F-250 4×4 Is Pretty Rare, Really Awesome, And Totally Something We Need
Listen, I know that I have a problem. I should be stalking eBay and getting the flop sweats for big block Chevelles, worked up first gen Camaros, and wild hot rods with huge motors and way more power...
Bottom Dollar Blazer Project – Episode 3: Starting the Bodywork
When last I wrote and you read, I had fixed up a bunch of the mechanical issues on the ’79 Blazer, to make sure it ran ok, and could stop safely without killing myself and all those around me....
One Of World’s Largest Private Military Vehicle Collections To Be Auctioned This July – Tanks, Trucks, A Flippin’ SCUD! Over 100 Vehicles
Over the course of his life and especially over the last 20 years or so, Californian Jacques Littlefield accumulated one of the greatest and largest private collections of military vehicles in the...
eBay Find: This 1949 Dodge Power Wagon Is Almost (and we mean ALMOST) Perfect
Look at this awesome hunk of steel, would you? Is there anything finer than a classic Dodge Power Wagon? Honestly, if you can lay our eyes on this truck and not get any sort of a gearhead tingle than...
Gallery: Monster Trucks Invade And Occupy The Shop At MSD Performance!
(Photos by MSD Performance) – When your job is to maintain 10,000+ trucks that routinely jump 20-feet in the air and land on cars, buses, RVs, and concrete floors fixing stuff is pretty much a...
On This Date In 1893 The Diesel Engine Was Patented In Germany – Here’s Our Video Tribute To Compression Ignition Engines!
Rudolph Diesel would be so flipping happy at the way things are turning out for his basic engine design today, mainly because he would be wealthy beyond anyone’s imagination so it is too bad...
