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Will It RUN AND DRIVE? Is There Any Chance For This Old C10 Truck That’s Been Parked For Decades?
Derek at Vice Grip Garage is back at it and this time he’s found himself an old C10 pickup that has apparently been sitting for decades. Will it run and drive, or is this going to be one of...
Crashed LS Turbo Drag And Drive Car Gets Rebuilt: The Maliboom Needs Some Love, And It’s Going To Get A Lot More Than That!
If you missed it, Dane Thompson’s Maliboom smacked the wall in Oklahoma during Rocky Mountain Race Week a few months ago and he’s been thrashing on it since. Despite lots of conjecture,...
Bad To The Bone Tire Smoking Project! The Voodoo Turbo 1966 Mustang Build Starts Right Here! Wow, Just Wow.
I’m always stoked to see new projects, mostly because they inspire me to get out into the shop and work on my own stuff. And since I’m working on finishing up my new show right now,...
Make It Kustom And HalfAss Kustoms Cab Over Ramp Truck: Break Downs And Trouble Shooting Problems Before The Deck Goes Together
It’s moving along, and it’s time for more miles and more testing and more tuning. This ramp truck project is something special, but like all things custom there are sometimes parts, pieces, and...
Is Tony Angelo’s Dirt Cheap LS V8 Swapped 911 Better than a Real Porsche GT3?! Head To Head Testing Will Tell Us Just How Good It Is! Or Isn’t?
Porsches, regardless of year or model, or pretty cool cars. Some are cooler than others, but there is no doubt that these machines have shaped the automotive world and that their performance models...
Newbern and Friends Do Three Engine Swaps In Two Days… But Not Because They Wanted To! Did They Get Them All Running For Cruising The Coast?
I’ve done several crazy builds that most people think are not possible. Engine swaps in hours, full car builds in just two days, etc, etc, etc. But doing three engine swaps in two days is...
DIY Paint Job: INSANE Results with Rattle Can Paint Job! – DIY, No Equipment Needed, And It Really Does Look Pretty Good!
I love DIY paint job videos, whether it is folks using cans of Rustoleum, cheap supplies, a cheap HVLP gun and compressor, or rattle cans. So when I saw this rattle can paint job and actual good...
Brent at Halfass Kustoms Is Building a 1951 Ford Rat Rod. And He’s Doing It With A Zero Dollar Budget! Can He Pull It Off?
We love Brent’s drive and determination, but it may be his resourcefulness and creativity with used parts that impresses me most. I remember when I first started watching his channel, and he...
Vice Grip Garage Garbage Camaro Build: Kevin Tetz And Kiwi Collab – They Will Save This Camaro Whether It Likes It Or Not!
The Garbage Camaro is back with another update. Like we’ve said before, it’s fixable, but man is it going to take some work. Kevin keeps saying he loves this car even though it is a ton...
Tony Bought A BROKEN LS Swapped Nova, Fixed It For Almost Nothing, and Ripped it Across the Desert to DUCT TAPE DRAGS!
Why? Because that’s what Tony does! He’s nuts, which is why I love this guy. He does the same dumb stuff I would do so it is probably a good thing we don’t live closer to each...
The Fall Carlisle Swap Meet Was Almost A Rain Out, But Despite Being Soggy There Were Some Seriously Great Projects For Sale!!!
I need a project car like a hole in my head, but man do I love checking them out. Whenever I see a potential project the thoughts about what to do with it go through my head instantly. I can envision...
Finnegan’s One Day Engine Transformation! He Installs a Blower on his OBS Truck For More Power And More Burnout Grins.
Finnegan’s OBS GMC is going to be one sweet ride. Hell, it was awesome stock since it has almost no miles on it and was relatively untouched. There is no way I could have left it alone and not...
Dylan McCool’s ABANDONED Mercury Capri TURBO Gets Some Love! Will It Run And Drive After Sitting For 23 Years?
Dylan is back at it, with another Ford project. Well Mercury to be exact, but same same. What’s weird is that Dylan really is mostly a Mopar guy but he dabbles in a little bit of everything and...
David Newbern Helps Make Bert’s Junkyard 1957 Chevy A Driver With A Blown Small Block! First Drive Before Cruisin’ The Coast.
When Newbern and the gang got a bunch of Tri-Five Chevrolet’s out of Texas a couple years ago, they ended up in the hands of several folks who were intent on building cool rides. Some are going...