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Roadside Episode #2: The Road To The SEMA Show Is Paved By Square Body C10’s!

Fresh off the heels of three successful builds for SEMA…Jeremy & Frank are back again to finish up Frank’s out of this world (literally) Tahoe and completely customize and modernize a...

Watching This Cummins Blow Everything Above The Crankshaft Off The Engine Is Amazing

When I say everything above the crankshaft, I’m not kidding. The crank and rods are still sitting there spinning after the rest of the engine is thrown forward in the dyno cell. One of the rods...

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Soaking Behemoth – The Mack Super Pumper Was A Locomotive Engined Fire Fighter That Could Extinguish Hell Itself (And Often Did)

(Lead image: Philip Goldstein) – In the early 1960s the New York City Fire Department was facing a host of problems. The world around them was growing ever taller, ever more compact, and ever...

Insane Video: Watch A Big Rig Suffer A Tire Explosion In Russia

(By Greg Rourke) – Truck tires are nothing to mess with. We’ve reviewed the aftermath of truck tires exploding previously on these pages. When handled properly they are inflated inside a...

Can’t Be Any More Beat Than An Ex-Military Truck: Who Wants This 1991 HMMWV Desert Race Truck?

My thoughts on the HMMWV are pretty well cemented: they are killer off-roaders that are equipped with all of the luxury amenities of a gulag and have all the stump-pulling power of an old work mule...

Off-Road Square Bodies For The Win! Which One Out Of This Compilation Works For You?

1973-87 for the light trucks, 1973-91 for the heavy trucks and sport-utility vehicles. That’s the year ranges where you’ll find what’s commonly called a Square Body Chevrolet or GMC...

Skip The Super Duallies And Go Straight To The Real Deal With This 1979 Kenworth K100!

It’s the battle of the biggest truck out there for every Tom, Dick and Jane who gives half a crap about such petty nonsense. Who has the biggest truck, the largest cab, the most torque,...

What Is It Like To Drive Tracks? Carfection Drives Tanks In Michigan To Find Out!

When you are in the military, you get a military driver’s license. In the Army, that means that you have to test on pretty much every vehicle and piece of kit that your job requires you to...

Extreme Weirdness: What Would You Do With A Dodge 360-swapped Isuzu VehiCROSS?

Between 1997 and 2001, Isuzu built one extremely funky SUV called the VehiCROSS. It shared a lot of parts with the Isuzu Trooper and looked just about exactly like the 1993 concept vehicle of the...

King Of The Hammers Rock Bouncer VS Rock Crawler Shootout – End Over End Action!

Watching Rock Bouncers and Rock Crawlers battle it out on a shootout style course to see which one is going to be the top of the heap for the King of the Hammers Rock Bouncers vs Rock Crawlers is a...

Cut It Out: New Hooker Street Tease Exhaust Cut Outs Use A Key Fob and A Simple 12V Plug!

If you are in the mood or the market to add electric exhaust cutouts to your car, Hooker may just have the answer you need. The company has released their new Street Tease exhaust cutouts and what...

This Supercharged Big-Block Suburban Is The Tow Vehicle You Deserve! Check Out This 1990s Throwback!

Sport trucks…which were mostly Chevy and GMC C/K trucks in monochromatic paint jobs wearing billet aluminum wheels slammed low to terra firma, looking sharp. You couldn’t get away from...

Shop Truck Winner! This 1989 Chevrolet Medium-Duty Build Is Greatness!

Your neighbor up the street just dropped seventy-something thousand dollars on a brand new Ford that does everything but please him as he drives down the Interstate. Around the block, you have the...

Morning Symphony: The GMC Astro That Can And Will Drag This Sled The Distance!

Everybody knows the story of The Little Engine That Could. “I think I can…I think I can…I think I can!” the Little Engine repeats to itself as it tries to climb the mountain...