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Category Archive: CRASH & BURN, FORD, Videos

Destruction Video: The Australians Do Everyone A Huge Favor And Euthanize A Taurus With A Horrifyingly Bad Bodykit

The third-generation Ford Taurus wasn’t a well-liked car in the United States, owing mostly to the fact that the design went from a family-friendly potato-ish shape to a mess of blobs and orbs...

Ebay Find: This Dart-blocked Monte Carlo Is A Hustler, Ready To Go

When I typed “pro street” into the search bar, I was expecting fully tubbed-out fairground cruisers with blowers that with a little tweak here and there, could become something heroic. I...

2014 Throwback: The Sleeper Chevy W/T From LS Fest

I had forgotten about this ragged-out Chevy 1500 W/T from LS Fest this summer. Peeling paint, bashed-in bed, forgettable aftermarket wheels and no exhaust note to speak of, it looked like just about...

You Want A Pretty, High-Dollar Corvette? How About The One Of The Three Handbuilt Scaglietti Corvettes?

The 1956 SR-2 Corvette…well played, Brian and Justin. It’s very hard to knock a Corvette that had the backing of Zora Arkus-Duntov and Harley Earl…wait a minute. Something sounds...

It’s Daily Driven, It’s A Six Cylinder, And It’s In The Nines: This Falcon G6E Is A Winner

Other than the green paint, you’d lose this thing in a huge parking lot. The body doesn’t have any radical mods. And unless you know what to listen for, all you hear is a six cylinder...

Confirmed: Ford’s Halo Performance Car Will Appear, And It Will Be Raced By Ganassi Racing

In twelve days from now, Ford will host a press conference that will reveal, among other things, the car that the rumor mill has been dubbing “the next GT”, i.e. the new halo Ford...

Ebay Find: Two Tons Of Fun With A Blown Big-Block Chevy Wagon

Raise your hand if a 800hp, blown Chevy station wagon doesn’t sound like fun to you. Keep your hand up…now, find the door and make a hasty exit, because if you can’t find even one...

Trailer For “Sleepers Two” Released: The Guy Who Goes Hunting With A W-body Regal Is Back!

YouTube user “JuniorN316” has made a name for himself when it comes to the art of the sleeper. His take on hot rodding, his history with sleepers, his Buick Regal and the antics...

Was The Late-Model GTO The Car That Killed Pontiac? These Guys Seem To Think So, We Disagree

The 2004-06 Pontiac GTO was, depending on your view, either a great modern musclecar that suffered from a bad exchange rate with the Australian Dollar or was a bland attempt at reviving a storied...

Ebay Find: This MR2 Is Packing An Audi 4.2 V8 And A Serious Anger Issue

Don’t look at this first-gen Toyota MR2 and just see a wide body kit. You’d be doing this car a disservice. Instead, you should know about it’s running gear and why this little...

Is This 2JZ-swapped Aston Martin DB7 A Great Idea Or An Evil Chimera? You Decide!

The Aston Martin DB7 is one of the most pretty cars to come out of Europe in recent memory. It’s 3.2L supercharged straight-six was a de-stroked Jaguar unit with an Eaton M90 blower...

Best of 2014: Left For Dead In A Ditch: The Newfoundland Ravine Daytona

The photos look like a crime scene. The remnants of a T5 Copper 1969 Dodge Charger Daytona lay scattered, crushed, picked apart by parts looters among the trees and brush of a ravine in Newfoundland,...

Best of 2014: Car Feature: The 196mph LSR 1970 Cadillac Coupe de Kill – Caddy Powered And Homebuilt!

(Just about a month ago we ran this feature on Sean Mote’s wild turbocharged Caddy. Well, it went viral and was viewed by seemingly half of the gearhead world. It quickly jumped into our top 10...

Auction Stunner: Big Willie Robinson’s Daytona Going To Barrett-Jackson

This year’s Barrett-Jackson Scottsdale auction is shaping up to be a jaw-dropper. In addition to the Ron Pratte Collection going across the block, the surviving “Duke and Duchess”...