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Make It Kustom And HalfAss Kustoms Cab Over Ramp Truck: Building The Deck To Finally Put The Ramp Into This Ramp Truck!

It’s time to put the ramp in this ramp truck! Check out the latest update and let us know what you think of this project. This project has been a fun one to watch, it started when Brent from...

Is The Best Thread Locker Loctite? Will Loctite Come Out On Top vs Permatex, JB Weld, Amazon, And More!

I always refer to thread locker as Loctite. And I don’t know anyone else who says anything different. Loctite is to thread locker like Kleenex is to facial tissue. Intelligently I know there...

Influence and Impact – Car Builder TV Show History, Monster Garage to Gas Monkey, Reality TV Hits The Hot Rod World.

Jason and Marcel are no strangers to building custom cars and trucks, and they’ve also seen it done on tv and even been a part of a few car builder tv shows. When reality tv found the car...

Is This The Best Car Corral In The World? The Iron Trap Garage Crew Says YES!!! – 2024 Fall Hershey AACA Swap Meet

The AACA Swap Meets at Hershey are nuts. I’ve never been, but want to, and every time someone sends us video or photos from this place we about lose our minds. On multiple occasions, our friend...

I Love Mavericks, And Sleeper Dude Is Saving This Bitchin Grabber From The Forest, Where It Has Been Sitting For 30 Years!

One often questions one’s decisions when one is the kind of person to drag a car out of a stand of trees and then attempt to bring it back to life. One questions these decisions when a full...

40 Years Of Sport Trucks: Behind The Scenes With Belltech. The People, And Company, That Changed The Truck Scene Forever.

California has been in the middle of the car scene since anyone knew there was a scene. We all know that SoCal in particular has a particular infatuation with automobiles, and the car culture there...

Free Live Drag Racing: All-Trucks, No Prep At King Of The Streets Challenge! Bad Beasts Taking On The Strip At US13 Dragway – Saturday

The King of the Street Challenge is on this weekend, featuring trucks of all shapes and sizes battling it out pulling sleds, drag racing on dirt, and throwing down on the dyno, along with No Prep...

Free Live Off-Road Racing: The 2024 Warn Racing Ultra 4 Nationals Is LIVE Right Here All Weekend Long!

We dig Ultra 4 Racing around here as we love to bring you King of the Hammers action each year, but whenever we get the chance to share some other Ultra 4 races, we do. This weekend is the Warn...

Halfass Kustoms $0 1951 Ford Rat Rod Project: Can You Really Build Something Cool On A Zero Dollar Budget? Can He Pull It Off?

It’s kind of crazy to think you can build something with a zero dollar budget, but if you have the amount of “stuff” sitting around that Brent has, maybe it’s not that crazy...

Will It RUN AND DRIVE? Is There Any Chance For This Old C10 Truck That’s Been Parked For Decades?

Derek at Vice Grip Garage is back at it and this time he’s found himself an old C10 pickup that has apparently been sitting for decades. Will it run and drive, or is this going to be one of...

This Event Simulates STREET RACING but You can’t get Arrested! Powercruise Delivers Like No Other Event We’ve Seen

Roll racing has become popular at events like TX2K, but there are still folks who think organized roll racing isn’t the same as the streets, where it got its start. Back in the day, TX2K in...

Can You Create Your Own 2-Stage Paint: Can You (Gloss 2K Clear) Over (FLAT BLACK) Rust-oleum TURBO Spray Paint? Find Out Here!

I love DIY paint projects and this one here is interesting because I’ve head a lot of people ask about this over the years. What people often wonder, myself included, is whether or not you can...

Make It Kustom And HalfAss Kustoms Cab Over Ramp Truck: Break Downs And Trouble Shooting Problems Before The Deck Goes Together

It’s moving along, and it’s time for more miles and more testing and more tuning. This ramp truck project is something special, but like all things custom there are sometimes parts, pieces, and...

Tool Tip Tuesday With Kevin Tetz: The SHAKEMASTER 4000 Tool Review. Is This The Ultimate Paint Shaker? And Yes We Know It’s Wednesday

I love tool reviews, so when Kevin Tetz posted this video of himself testing the Shakemaster 4000 we knew we had to share it. I’m sure you have seen all kinds of things that people have added...