BOOM VIDEO: Watch This Very Fast Pickup Literally Launch Its Driveshaft – No Loop Here!
There are certain rules that lots of racers like to scoff at. Replacing belts every couple years is one of many that annoy people and make them believe that there’s some sort of conspiracy out...
This 1967 Ford Truck Commercial, Featuring A Pickup Playing Football Is Campy And Cool
Today’s ads for pickup trucks are designed to make everyone that owns one feel like a bad ass or a cowboy or the most manly dude in the ‘burbs. Back in the 1960s that wasn’t really...
Size Matters II – Mike Ryan’s sophomore effort makes Size Matters I that much better
This is not to take anything away from the super-sized effort in the driving in Size Matters II — the followup to the bitchin’, tire-smoldering video from 2011 — but there’s a...
Bitchin’ Van? This Mr. Norm’s Custom Van Is 1970s Awesome And All Original
Grand Spaulding Dodge in Michigan, better known as Mr Norm’s in the hot rodding world, gained fame for their muscle car programs and tuning ability in the 1960s and early 1970s. When the EPA...
eBay Find: Rusty, Crusty, Amazing 1956 Chevy Wrecker Perfection
The string of words that left my lips when I laid eyes on this truck were so disjointed, profane, and otherwise wrong, I am never going to repeat them again….unless I stumble upon another...
This vintage mud bog footage from 1986 at Tail Creek Raceway feels like high school
Back when I was in high school in 1985, I loaded up a couple of my pals at 5:30 one Saturday morning and headed north to just outside the state capitol of New Hampshire. In a small town called Bow,...
The Mint 400 Was Last Weekend And This Video Is Proof Of Its Coolness
The 2014 Mint 400 was contested just days ago in Jean, Nevada. Since the late 1960s, racers have been showing up to Nevada with trucks, buggies, and Jeeps to battle in this race of races through the...
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,...
