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Category Archive: BUICK / OLDS / PONTIAC, CAR FEATURES, Car Features, MISC, TECH, Videos

Vice Grip Garage Pontiac GTO Project: It’s Done But Will It Make The 800 Mile Drive To Florida?

If you have missed the first three episodes of this build, that’s okay because we have a link below that will let you see them all. In this episode, the car is done and ready to go back to the...

Learn How This Cutlass Goes From Barn Find To Bright And Fresh!

It’s no secret that for the last several years, I’ve been all about the trend of dragging ancient iron from where they had been slumbering, waking them up and returning these machines...

Will Vice Grip Garage’s Turbo Buick Grand National Run And Drive After Sitting For 20 Years?

He’s back at it again! Derek has found yet another amazing ride, this time an actual Buick Grand National, and is going to try to make it run and drive and then drive it home the $400 miles. I...

Car Feature: Original, Low Mileage 1978 Pontiac Trans Am In Martinique Blue, With Original Owners Order Notes! T-tops, Loaded!

(Words and Video by Chad Ehrlich) A lot of the viewers have been wanting to see some of my personal collection. I had this Trans Am out recently, so I went ahead and did a quick video on it! This is...

Get The Real History On Junkyard Digs’ Latest Barn-Find Cutlass

About a week or so ago, we showed you the first part of Junkyard Digs’ third Cutlass revival. That’s right, third…this dude has a knack for finding pretty decent Rocket-powered...

RAREST of the RARE – Barris Built Pontiac Firebird Goes Up For Auction

George Barris built some insanely cool customs in his time and was particularly well-known for building customs that were found on tv shows. From the sublime to the ridiculous, George has built some...

BARNFIND OLDS – Will it Run After 23 Years Of Being ABANDONED??

Another bring it back to life video, but this time it is JunkYard Digs who is going after this 1972 Old Cutlass to see if it can live to see another day. I’m a big fan of GM A-Bodies and this...

Pro Personal Luxury: This 1971 Pontiac Grand Prix Model J Creates Envy

The “personal luxury coupe” that became prevalent in the 1970s sought to do two things. One, it was a way to extend out the price range of an intermediate coupe by allowing an...

Wanna See Some Cool New Wrecking Yard Finds? Check Out This New Inventory! 1956 Buick Special! Solid car, Nice Chrome!

Nobody’s Show is back at it with more wrecking yard gold, this time in the form of a 1956 Buick Special and boy is this a cool GM tri-five. These cars were super sexy and had all kinds of cool...

Knight Rider Semi Trailer FOUND After 36 Years! Can It Be Saved? This Is The Trailer That Hauled KITT!

When you take two Knight Rider nerds, which I say with no negativity whatsoever, and give them the internet they are going to find all kinds of cool Knight Rider stuff. And they have done so by...

Will This Pontiac GTO RUN AND DRIVE After 40 YEARS? (Buried in Garage)

Derek from Vice Grip Garage has been working hard on cars and trucks of all kinds this year, but this one here is pretty special for a variety of reasons. First off, it’s a 1967 GTO that has...

Money No Object: 1974 Pontiac Trans Am SD-455 In White And Blue

How is it that two cars, on the same platform, built in the same year from the same company, could be so alarmingly different? GM’s F-body might have kept the musclecar flame burning through...

Root Beer Float: This 1966 Oldsmobile Jetstar 88 Speaks To Us!

I recently came to a rather unpleasant revelation: not counting a work-related trip or a move, I haven’t been on a proper long-distance roadtrip since 2010. Oh, sure, I’ve made some small...

Pro-Touring LS Swapped Cadillac Coupe Deville- Introducing The Chicken Coupe, A Project That Excites Me To No End.

The Chicken Coupe has been a long time coming and is a project that I am behind 100%. After all, good friend Matt Graves is the one behind this craziness and he’s been involved in some...