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Category Archive: ENGINE, ENGINES, FORD, Project Cars, TECH, Tech Stories, Videos

FREIBURGER’S 1929 MODEL A FORD IS RESCUED! A Killer Deal That’s Going To Need Some Love, And Wrenching With Derek from Vice Grip Garage!

Freiburger and Derek are back at it, but this time it’s Derek who’s helping Freiburger, since Freiburger helped him with the Jeep Wagoneer project not long ago. These two are good...

How to Chop An All-Original 1932 Ford Tudor: Chopping a True Survivor – This Untouched 1932 Ford Is Becoming A Hot Rod!

Here’s a video showing just what you’ve got to do in order to chop the top on a 1932 Ford Tudor. This is where the cutting begins. There’s no turning back now! The last video showed you...

Wanna Watch A Dude Engine Swap A Big Ford Wagon In The Snow? Good, Cause Here Is The Video!

I’ve told folks for years that if you pull a small block out of a car, and immediately replace it with another small block, you’ll spend $1000. Hell, it’s 2025 and that number might...

The Mangled Mercury Project: This Barn Find 1939 Mercury Has Gone From Forgotten To Incredible Hot Rod! Watch The Whole Build In 30 Minutes!

The Mangled Mercury project from Iron Trap Garage has been a really fun project to watch come together. Starting out as what seemed like a simple chop top Mercury build, it has gone into full custom...

New Junkyard Inventory! Check Out This Farm Fresh Barn Find V-8 Auto Ford Customline with a Factory Sunvisor!

Chad Ehrlich is back at it with more awesome finds and more awesome parts. His collector car wrecking yard is one of the finest in the country, and we’ve been there several times and taken home...

Dylan McCool’s Project Car Updates! Monaco Body Swap, ’58 Plymouth, W200, Cobra II, Charger, and MANY MORE!

To wrap up 2025, Dylan McCool sat down to give everyone an update on his current projects and some of what to expect in 2026. If you are a fan of all the cool stuff he has going on, then check out...

If You Could EV Swap An Old Ride For Cheap, Would You? This Mercury Comet Had One Donor Vehicle And Cost Less Than $6,000

I know everyone likes to bash on electric vehicles, and I’m clearly not the market they are aiming for, but there is something kind of cool about guys doing EV swaps on certain rides. Sure, I...

How to Prep an All-Original 1932 Ford to Chop – Haters Welcome, Cause This Thing Has Been Untouched For 93 Years!

Here’s a video showing you everything that has to happen to plan and prepare to chop an all original 1932 Ford Tudor Sedan. There is a lot of measuring and taping and measuring and measuring...

Radiator How To: 95% Said It Wasn’t Possible…. So Bennett’s Customs Chopped an Original Walker Radiator 2 Inches!

Radiators are a whole different animal compared to any other metal fabrication, and I can tell you from first hand experience that they are pretty involved to assemble. The principle behind them is...

Freiburger Found The Perfect Big Beater Convertible To Road Trip, But Perhaps The Weather Could Be Better For Top down Cruising.

When Freiburger and I were doing Car Junkie TV and then freelance stuff at Hot Rod, he had a big 1967 Impala Convertible that we did minimal work to before wrapping it with flames and the driving the...

Abandoned For 32 Years! Will This 1969 Mustang Run! What Will It Look Like After A Budget Transformation?

Mortske is back at it, this time with a 1969 Mustang that has been sitting for 32 years. 32! So will it run and drive and live again? Will it be a cool car or just another failed project? I think...

Untouched for 93 Years: Pulling Off A 48 Hour Hot Rod Transformation On This Original 1932 Sedan – Chop or Not?!

This 1932 Ford Tudor Sedan is an amazing survivor. It is completely stock and untouched and has spent the last few decades stored in a storage container in Canada. It recently got shipped all the way...

Check Out This Epic Survivor! This Amazing 1939 Ford Truck Is Barn Find Greatness! But Will It Run Again?

Barn finds rule, and Mortske has found his fair share of them over the years. But this one here is a pretty cool survivor that looks incredible considering that it is nearly 80 years old. This 1939...

How Did The Iron Trap Gang Actually Make This 1932 Ford Tudor Super Shiny After 45 Years In A BARN?!

Making old paint shiny is easier nowadays than ever, but for many folks that involves using something like Vice Grip Garage Shine Juice. And that stuff is awesome, there is no doubt, but it’s a...