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Category Archive: eBay Find, TRUCKS

Like Your Trucks Ready To Work? Check Out This 1973 International! No Carpet, No BS!

If you are so inclined, you can go out right now and order up a Ford F-series truck that will easily come in close to $70,000 dollars, and you can easily get close to that figure with the GM twins,...

Used Car Lot Find: This 1966 Pontiac Catalina Convertible Wound Up On A Ford Lot

It isn’t often that I stop in at a dealership’s lot for one specific car in the used lot. Normally I will just swing in and take a look around, annoy the sales staff, maybe even...

Toyota Celebrates The 1,000,000th Hilux Built In South Africa By Hot-Rodding One! Forget The Diesel, Jam In A V8!

We love it when manufacturers do an in-house hot rod, and oddly enough it is Toyota who, for the second time in nearly a year, who have shocked us with something we totally dig. First was last...

Rough Start: The Nicest Small A-body Monte Carlo You Can Get For Under Five Grand

Most people think of the 1982-up cars when suggesting an Eighties Monte Carlo, and a lot of that is due to the love-or-hate looks of the A-body 1978-1981 version. A departure from the Colonnade body...

Question Of The Day: With A GM Chassis And Running Gear, How Would You Modify This 1987 Avanti?

Without a doubt, the original 1962-63 Studebaker Avanti was a polarizing car that was well ahead of it’s time. It had power (especially in supercharged trim), a bit of safety and quite a bit of...

Quick Gallery: The National Corvette Museum’s 21st Annual Celebration – Oh, For The Love Of All Things Fiberglass!

When your backyard is Bowling Green, Kentucky, you can’t help but notice the Corvettes everywhere normally. The city has pretty much prospered from the second that General Motors decided to...

Quick Gallery: The Re-Opened Skydome At The National Corvette Museum

Re-opening the Skydome exhibit at the National Corvette Museum is the closing of a strange and sad chapter for the curators: the sinkhole that opened up in the karst formation underneath the display...

The Yamaha YXZ1000R UTV Might Be The Closest Thing To A Rally Car You Can Buy: Four-Wheel Drive, A High-Winding Engine And A Sequential Five-Speed!

Let’s say, for a moment, that you were offered the chance to buy a high-performance off-road vehicle. It will come fully ‘caged with seating for two. It will be extremely light compared...

Check Out This Time-Lapse Video Of The Restoration Of The 1 Millionth Corvette – From Sinkhole To Stunner!

Once the team from the National Corvette Museum had extracted all of the Corvettes that were swallowed up by the sinkhole, the task began of determining what cars would and would not be restored. The...

This 1951 Ford Truck Might Look Like A Budget Beater, But With A Tunnel-Rammed 5.4 And All-Wheel Drive, It Is A Daily Driver That Pegs Out The Awesome Meter!

Many people talk about daily-driving a hot rod, but how many people really do it? A very tiny margin, that’s how many. There are a decent number of fair-weather drivers, and you have the...

Rough Start: A Ford Granada Set Up So Well That Even McTaggart Doesn’t Hate It

Stop the presses, call a press conference, a f***ing miracle just took place: A Ford Granada has been located that I not only don’t mind, but might actually consider driving in real life....

Caption This: How Would You Sell This Lincoln-Ish Super Brougham?

Zimmer Golden Spirit. 1970s Stutz. Both of these cars represent the same thing: a harkening back to the days of Dusenbergs and Bugattis, though the execution might be…well…a little...

BangShift Project Files: Tubbed And Tube-Framed Makes For One Seriously Interesting Chevette

The lesson we all learn about cars is that there are two ways to make them faster: you either add horsepower or you remove weight. Most of what we cover involves adding horsepower. Removing weight is...

Corvair War: Sitting Pretty Is One Thing, But This Crown-Converted Monza Racer Stomping Corvettes And Porsches Is Another!

I can’t knock Lohnes for picking the Yenko Stinger…it’s a given that if you aren’t going for a V8-converted ‘Vair, that the Yenko is the way to go. Looking at for sale...