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Your Swap Is Weak: Watch These Farm Boys Swap A Caterpillar 3412 Into A Big Bud Tractor!

There are engine swaps and then there are ENGINE SWAPS! This is an example of the second because you are firstly looking at a Big Bud tractor, which is completely awesome and then you are looking at...

Blazing Inferno: Watch This 1974 White Road Boss Perform The Most Epic Big Rig Burnout Ever – Detroit Diesel Power!

Oh, internet how we love thee. The KT3406E YouTube channel has been home to some of the most wild and awesome big rig videos ever created. These are the guys who ran a rig on ether until the engine...

Truck-Ology: Another Look Into The History Of Trucks – A Fresh Load Of 100 Year Old Photos!

(Photos: DPL Digital collection) – Since last week’s look into the history of trucks from the early 20th century was such a hit, I am going to make a regular thing of it and call the...

Goofy Fun: Check Out The Destruction Of The Easy Evans Used Car Lot At The Houston Astrodome

Sometimes it’s about having fun, right? When you flip on the tube or click on a YouTube link, you want to be entertained. This is one of the best examples of the magic of Brock Yates and Steve...

The Capable Sloth: This Review Of The 1994 Land Rover Discovery Is Heavy On Praise And Glossy Over Shortcomings

Back in the 1994 Land Rover was still a fully British concern and the name had some real cache here in the USA. They had the hardcore Defender which was expensive and designed to be lacking in frills...

The Worst Tank Ever: This Look At The WW2 Valiant Assault Tank Is A Study In Failure

Of all the rabbit holes I have gone down in the last year, studying old tanks may be the weirdest. Early on in the quarantine adventure of 2020 I found a series called “Age of Tanks” on...

Full Time Job: This 1970s Chevrolet Film Promotes The Company’s Tried and Tough Full Time 4-Wheel Drive System

There’s a distinct formula for a 1970s car maker promotional video. Step one, hire a dude who has been smoking four packs a day for thirty years. Step two, find some cool but ultimately...

The Roar Of Power: This 1970s Allis-Chalmers Dealer Film Is All In On Killer Tractor Pulling Footage

This is some gold right here. Between the cool tractors, the basic and awesome old sleds, and the footage of them both working together, this is about 10-minutes of gearhead heaven. The name of this...

The Heavy Iron: This Video Showing Tons Of Awesome Heavyweight Tractors Plowing Fields Is Tractor Greatness!

If you have ever wondered why people collect tractors, especially farmers, let this video answer the question. You are going to see one of the most awesome collections of muscle tractor, giant...

Peak 80s Goodness: This United States Hot Rod Association Promotional Video Is A Gearhead Highlight Reel That We Love

The United States Hot Rod Association was at its peak in the 1980s. Putting on the indoor monster truck shows, pulling events, mud bogs, and more they were drawing massive crowds in cities big and...

Massive In Miniature: This 1988 USHRA Broadcast From The Pontiac Silverdome Is Bonkers!

Well, this is peak 1980s right here. You are going to see an awesome and totally bananas UHRA broadcast from the Pontiac Silverdome made in 1988. What’s crazy about this is not any one specific...

Multi-Engine Throwdown: This 1989 TNT Series Pulling Broadcast Is A Legit War Between Legendary Pulling Families

There’s something about a vintage pulling broadcast that gets me ever time. Maybe the fact that I work with Army Armstrong’s son week in and week out with NHRA, the fact that the...

Uproarious: This Video Profiles Every Detroit Diesel Two Stroke Engine From One Cylinder To 24!

This is really cool. You are about to see a video that profiles every to stroke Detroit Diesel engine from the 1 cylinder variety all the way up to the 24 cylinder behemoth and represents the largest...

Taking It To The Street: Watch These Pakistani Truck Mechanics Rebuild A Massive Diesel V8 On The Side Of The Street

We love celebrating the real-guy heroic feats found at events like Drag Week, Sick Week, and others. People overcoming long odds to get a job done in a hard environment where it seems like all the...