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Custom Land Rover Discovery Feature Video: Ian Johnson Builds A Land Rover Like You’d Never Expect
Dec 30, 2024Chad ReynoldsComments Off on Custom Land Rover Discovery Feature Video: Ian Johnson Builds A Land Rover Like You’d Never Expect
Ian Johnson is one of those guys that you almost never find behind the wheel of anything “average”. He’s more likely to be driving something with some rock rash and personality. So...
Inside with TMI – Winner Of The Best Custom Truck TMI Trim Award At The 2024 SEMA Show – Earl Brignac’s 1986 Chevrolet C10 Pickup
Dec 27, 2024Chad ReynoldsComments Off on Inside with TMI – Winner Of The Best Custom Truck TMI Trim Award At The 2024 SEMA Show – Earl Brignac’s 1986 Chevrolet C10 Pickup
A few years ago, a small group of people came together to create an awards program for those vehicles with amazing interiors at the annual SEMA Show in Las Vegas. Our friends Marcel, Jason, and Ross...
Lowrider Mini Truck Perfection: Georjah Erin Silva’s 1989 Toyota Pickup at SEMA 2024
Dec 21, 2024Chad ReynoldsComments Off on Lowrider Mini Truck Perfection: Georjah Erin Silva’s 1989 Toyota Pickup at SEMA 2024
Georjah is a staple in the lowrider world as a model, enthusiast, and all around cool chick who loves to drive, promote, and work on her own lowriders and mini trucks. We dig her for it, as well as...
Truck Feature: Project Lockjaw – Big Tire Garage’s M715 Custom Rock Crawler
Dec 05, 2024Chad ReynoldsComments Off on Truck Feature: Project Lockjaw – Big Tire Garage’s M715 Custom Rock Crawler
At the 2024 SEMA Show in Las Vegas, the number of Bro Dozer style trucks in attendance was insane. This show truck trend has been around for the past few years, and because I’m a you do you...
Big Truck Feature: Check Out @TwinStix Smokey & The Bandit W900A Tribute Truck In This Great Video From The DeBoss Gang!
Oct 06, 2024Chad ReynoldsComments Off on Big Truck Feature: Check Out @TwinStix Smokey & The Bandit W900A Tribute Truck In This Great Video From The DeBoss Gang!
I have friends who are ate up with big rigs. I mean that is their jam! But even if you aren’t one of those big rig freaks, you have to love them! Growing up and seeing these beasts going up and...
Truck Feature: KC HiLiTES Takes Us On A Build Walk Around Of This Rad, RJ Fab Built, 1949 Jeep Willys! Check It Out!
Oct 06, 2024Chad ReynoldsComments Off on Truck Feature: KC HiLiTES Takes Us On A Build Walk Around Of This Rad, RJ Fab Built, 1949 Jeep Willys! Check It Out!
To say that a rig is the ultimate anything is a big risk. And I might argue that using the descriptor, Ultimate, when talking about luxury pre-runners might be a bigger risk than most. That’s...
John Jackson From Not Stock Photography Is Cruising New Braunfels with Cruzers Customs – Shop Tour and C10 Photoshoot
Aug 17, 2024Chad ReynoldsComments Off on John Jackson From Not Stock Photography Is Cruising New Braunfels with Cruzers Customs – Shop Tour and C10 Photoshoot
If you have never been around a professional photo shoot, it probably doesn’t go the way most people think. There is a lot of shuffling cars, a lot of waiting, a lot of clicking. One of the...
Game Changer: This Look Back At The Game Changing 1989 Cummins Powered Dodge Ram Is Awesome
Aug 16, 2024Brian LohnesComments Off on Game Changer: This Look Back At The Game Changing 1989 Cummins Powered Dodge Ram Is Awesome
So much of automotive history is evolutionary that is can be difficult to place a pinpoint on when a certain trend or shift happened in the business. The argument about the “first muscle...
What The Truck? This Hand Built 1960 Ford F850 Super Duty Crew Cab Took A Lot More Than You Might Think To Get This Cool
Aug 13, 2024Chad ReynoldsComments Off on What The Truck? This Hand Built 1960 Ford F850 Super Duty Crew Cab Took A Lot More Than You Might Think To Get This Cool
I’m a big fan of crew cab trucks, and especially those that either didn’t exist or were super rare back in the 1960s. There are a couple of builders in the country doing C50 and C60 GM...
We Drive It: The 2024 GMC Yukon Denali Ultimate – A One Option Study In Modern SUV Opulence
Aug 06, 2024Brian LohnesComments Off on We Drive It: The 2024 GMC Yukon Denali Ultimate – A One Option Study In Modern SUV Opulence
In the modern world of new cars, there’s not a lot of opportunity for a buyer to do what was the norm decades ago. That was the process of effectively line item selection various options, both...
LS Swap Tech: How To LS Swap A Jeep JK – The Complete Step By Step Guide With Ian From Big Tire Garage
Jul 22, 2024Chad ReynoldsComments Off on LS Swap Tech: How To LS Swap A Jeep JK – The Complete Step By Step Guide With Ian From Big Tire Garage
For the last 65ish years, smart automotive enthusiasts have been V8 swapping cars, trucks, and off road rigs that never came with them. In the 1970s it became popular to throw small block Chevrolets...
The Hot Rod Hoarder Is Getting FACTORY EXPERIMENTAL! The F-100 XL Prototype Drag Truck Is Featured Right Here.
Jul 18, 2024Chad Reynolds1
Check out this awesome find from our friend Tommy Lee Byrd, The Hot Rod Hoarder! A unibody Ford B/FX pickup! This truck is super rad, has great history, and is legit. Read the description below and...
Meet The Completely Insane City Slicker Pulling Tractor – Triple Turbo Allison (W/Video)
Jul 09, 2024Brian LohnesComments Off on Meet The Completely Insane City Slicker Pulling Tractor – Triple Turbo Allison (W/Video)
(Photos from Sascha Mecking collection) – Stuck in no one’s rut – That’s what it says on the side of the amazing, weird, interesting, and completely unique City Slicker that...
GM Built The World’s First Hydrogen Fuel Cell Powered Vehicle In 1966 And We Found Video Of It – Sweet Van!
Jun 27, 2024Brian LohnesComments Off on GM Built The World’s First Hydrogen Fuel Cell Powered Vehicle In 1966 And We Found Video Of It – Sweet Van!
This unassuming GMC Handivan is actually one of the great feats of automotive engineering in the history of the disciple. Known as the “Electrovan” this was the first vehicle that ever...






