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Category Archive: CAR FEATURES, Car Features, HISTORIC, OTHER, RACING & ACTION, Videos

Car Feature Video: This 1893 Salvesen Coal-Fired Steam Car Is Still Going Strong After More Than 130 Years!

I’ve seen a few steam powered cars in action, and have watched Jay Leno drive his all around town, but they are a rarity for sure. From what I understand, they make big power and can actually...

Goodwood F1 Feature: The 1959 Aston Martin DBR4 – Where The F1 Journey Began

I’m not a huge F1 aficionado, but I sure can appreciate the technology, speed, and passion that drives their racers, teams, and fans. And I can also appreciate the origins of F1, and how these...

The Hot Rod Hoarder Highlights Six Crazy RARE “Sport Customs” with Hand-Built Bodies & American V8 Power

American Sports Customs. Not a category of car most of us hear often, but one that definitely gets our attention as anytime a car guy sees a machine like those featured in this video we can’t...

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...

Larry Chen Feature Video: This VW Frankenstein Lupo Drag Car From Hell Has TWO, YES TWO!!! VR6 Engines In It!

This thing is nuts! In the world of import drag racing, VW isn’t the first name you think of, but it might be the last because this is about one of the most insane race machines we’ve...

Jay Leno’s Garage – Jay’s Ultimate Review Of The 25th Anniversary Edition Lamborghini Countach. One Of The Sexiest Italian Cars Ever…

I’ve been a Lamborghini Countach fan for as long as I can remember. When I was a kid I had a poster on my wall featuring a bunch of them, plus I read every review and article I could get my...

Jay Leno Explores The Beast: Inside the Presidential Limousine with Real Life Secret Service Agents And Everything!

The presidential limo has always been a relatively well known government vehicle, with some being way more famous than others. But never before has a presidential limo gotten more attention than The...

It Might Look Like A Restored Rolls Royce, But This Ring Brothers Build Is All That And So Much More!

We’ve talked about Ring Brothers builds before, and Jay Leno has featured a few of them on his channel, but this one here is something really special. I mean who takes a classic Rolls Royce and...

Ultimate Transformation: Tour A Military Truck Conversion That Has Become A Go Anywhere Off-Road Luxury Apartment

Ex-Military trucks can be had for reasonable prices all over the world and in every configuration you can imagine. 4×4, 6×6, 8×8 and more. These things are built to be bulletproof,...

This McLaren M1A Is One Of The Sexiest Sports Cars In History. It’s Also Got Plenty Of Nasty! Jay Leno’s Garage Feature

This may be one of the sexiest V8 powered sports cars ever built. These McLarens are such epic machines and are historic in so many ways. The history of this one is something special, and as usual...

Classic YouTube: The Rambler That Rallied Through A Third Of The World

While AMC was sorting out their overall image in the 1960s, moving away from the leader of American compact cars and into areas like full-size cars and muscle cars, truth be told they always did...

Jay Leno Is Showing Off Another Car So Rare You’ll Have Never Seen One Before. Meet The 1958 Macminn LeMans Coupe

Jay Leno features some of the most unique and rare machines you’ll ever see, and this one here is no exception. This is a 1958 MacMinn’s Lemans Coupe and the story behind it being saved...

Vice Grip Garage Gives This 1948 Studebaker Champion Its First WASH & BUFF In 47 Years! Budget Transformation!

I love it when you can take a solid old car and give it a little bit of a spit shine and some careful touches and make it look like something truly special. So when I saw this latest video from Derek...

1320Video Feature: This Volkswagen Bus is Faster than 99% of Cars on the Streets! Imagine What It Must Be Like Riding Up Front In This Thing!

Sometimes we forget that drag racing goes on all over the world, and that folks are ate up with it just as much as we are around here in some of those places. One such place is in the UK where Santa...