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RideTech Shares Their Hi-Speed 2017 Year In Review With Us

(Words by Steve Chryssos, Photos By Ridetech and Others)   While RideTech is an engineering and manufacturing company, we always find ways to peg the fun meter with fast, colorful cars and great...

Our Final Mooneyes X-Mas Show Photos Of 2017! You Gotta See These

We posted another gallery of photos from the Mooneyes X-Mas show yesterday, but why not give more today! While so much of the country is well under the freezing mark, it has been in the 80’s...

Best of BS 2017: The Top 11 Best Muscle Car TV Commercials

Today is Super Bowl Sunday, the biggest commercial day of the year. Undoubtedly some car company will be running ads during the game and trying to make a splash with whatever creative ideas they have...

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Check Out These Great Hot Rods At The Mooneyes X-Mas Party Show

While so much of the country is well under the freezing mark, it has been in the 80’s here in Southern California and that means hot rods are out and still having fun. We’re not posting...

Happy Holley Days Is On! Save Up To 20% On All Your Favorite Products Right Now!

Every year the guys at Holley, and most of the Holley Performance Brands, plan for holiday sales, funny holiday videos, and of course new products. Happy Holley Days was spawned from such planning,...

Best of BS 2017: Chrysler’s 9.25 Axle Servicing Film – Made In The Mid-1970s, Still Useful Today!

Short of actually ripping apart a rear axle in the presence of a trained mechanic who knows the ins and outs of the unit you are messing with, training by film fills in the gaps of what you need to...

Best of BS 2017: Rod Saboury And His Wild 1953 Corvette At Maple Grove In 1998!

The wildly painted, real-deal 1953 Chevrolet Corvette that wore the license plate “INTHE6S” was the stuff of legends for a young teenager who spent more than his fair share of time...

Best of BS 2017: Look Before You Leap: This Dune Rider Went From A Hundred-Foot Jump Onto The Hood Of A Jeep!

In most sand dune off-road parks, you need to have a ten-foot orange flag attached to whatever you are riding or driving for safety. This way, accidental incursions between vehicles can be minimized,...

Best of BS 2017: The Howl Of The Angry Demolition Derby Car

Around 1997, there was a demolition derby build car in our yard. It was a late 1970s Pontiac Catalina two-door, which was just another cheap GM B-body that somehow had the misfortune to end up at the...

Best of BS 2017: When Dick Johnson Hit The Rock At Bathurst In 1980

A rock defined the 1980 Bathurst race for Ford driver Dick Johnson. The day had been going so well…starting the race in second place and leading for most of the first seventeen laps,...

That’s…Concerning: Rollover Testing A 1998 Ford Expedition With Nobody Buckled In!

As we make progress on turning the rolled-over Explorer we drug home into a pile of parts, we couldn’t help but wonder just what the rollover crash test footage looked like. Ford’s...

Best Of BS 2017: Check Out The Ramcharger And The ’57 Ford Truck Remote-Controls!

There are remote-controlled vehicles, and then there are the true scaled-down, replica machines like what you will see here. Take a look at the 1987 Dodge Ramcharger…at first take it looks like...

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Best of BS 2017: The “WTF?” Files: Somewhere Within This Monster Is A 1970 Opel GT. If You Say So…

Every so often I come to the conclusion that I’ve seen just about every form of four-wheeled oddity there can be out there…and usually, three seconds after I have come to that conclusion,...

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Best of BS 2017: This Supercharged And Turbocharged Cummins-Powered Dodge Charger Is A Freakshow!

Where do we start with WelderUp’s “Project Overcharged” 1968 Dodge Charger? It looks like an extra from the set of Mad Max: Fury Road. Hiked up on a completely custom frame and...