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Category Archive: eBay Find, OTHER, TRUCKS

Too Stuffed With Leftovers? This 1977 Holden One Tonner Should Help You Out!

I have a thing for coupe utilities. I like El Caminos and Rancheros. I kind of like the Scamps and Rampages, too, though I like them more when they’ve been rear-drive swapped and are packing a...

Holy Overkill: This 1972 Ford Pinto Looks Ready To Take On Everybody!

Go on…mention the “humble” or “lowly” Ford Pinto. Go ahead…make you “ka-boom!” jokes, hide your lighters just in case, and “accidentally”...

Every Car Has It’s Loyal Fan, And For This Icelander, The C3 Corvette Is His Car!

Ah, impressionable youth. It’s the reason why I dig shovel-nosed second-gen Camaros…I saw a car that I immediately adored and it’s stuck with me ever since. The same goes for...

MORE: CHEVY, Videos

Bangshift Project Files Update: If You Hurry, You Can Own This Ford Truck/Crown Vic Combination!

We’ve looked at Nathan Kershaw’s 1969 Ford F-250 frame swap build before. It’s a neat premise: everything that makes a Crown Vic go, stop and in general be a great sedan, stuffed...

Would You Rather, The Winter Workhorse Edition: Which Would You Take Out In The Cold, The Ford Or The Binder?

Yep, the leaves are finally down, the air has taken a turn for the crisper and colder, and it’s time to give up in the concept of fall and to start settling in for the winter months. While...

Restomod Candidate: This 1976 Oldsmobile 442 Is A Factory 455 Car That Could Be Stunning!

Growing up, I was often told to stay away from 1973-77 GM A-body cars. They were too big. They had no power. They were too plasticky inside. They wouldn’t be worth a damn thing and if I was...

Random Car Review: The 1990 Ford F-150 “Street” Concept Truck

I am one of those individuals who has this strange habit: boredom leads to research. It made me pretty popular in school when it came time to dig through encyclopedias. (Yes, I outdate the Internet,...

MORE: FORD, TRUCKS

This Dodge Aspen Has The Vinyl Roof, The Hubcaps, And Is Super Clean. And It Runs 11s…The Way You’re Probably Expecting.

If you didn’t know, from the moment I first got onto the Internet I was affiliated with Mopar FMJ forums. And if you don’t know what that means, FMJ is a grouping of three Chrysler body...

Rough Start: Cool Can Be In The Last Place You Expect It, Like This 1979 Ford Courier!

The Ford Courier…wow. There’s a throwback. Growing up in Washington State, we had a neighbor lady that owned a white Courier, and I can’t be any more blunt about how much I despised...

Stuck The Landing: This Monster Chevy Goes For A Jump And Breaks A Few Things!

It’s tall, it’s got presence, it’s got a Duramax that sounds the business, and it looks virtually new. This Chevy Silverado is somebody’s life-long project…or current...

Would You Rather, The Dirt-Cheap Hot Rod Buick Edition! Regal Versus Roadmaster for $2,500!

Buick has always had a real strange relationship with performance. Cars like the Riviera, Gran Sport, GSX, Grand National, and the GNX give Buick performance credit that at times, the company...

Big Mover: This 1978 Ford LTD II Is Encouraging Us In Bad Ways…

It’s a strange phenomenon: Whenever I see slot mags on a mid-1970s Ford, the inner stunt driver starts going psychotic. And what’s even stranger is that voice of reason, the one that...

MORE: eBay Find, FORD

Never Meet Your Heroes: Regular Car Reviews Gets To Drive The “Defiance” Dodge Charger!

The only reason I know of the video game “Defiance” or the television show that followed is this one car. It looks exactly as it’s supposed to: a post-apocalyptic monster of a...

Begging To Be Romped On: This Five-Speed, 5.4-Swapped Ford Crown Victoria Is The Barge Of Our Dreams!

The Ford Panther platform has been dead for five years now, and most people only acknowledge it’s loss when they realized that they needed to start memorizing another set of headlights to...