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Category Archive: FUNNY STUFF, HISTORIC, Videos

In The 1970’s, When You Built Bike Ramps From Scraps, We Were All Evel Knie

If you were a kid and got a bicycle, you were probably trying to figure out how to get airborne with your two wheeled transport. If you grew up before the 1980’s when bikes were being designed...

Skill Level 3: Reviving A Dodge Ramcharger That’s In Pieces

While Hot Wheels gets the credit for introducing many a budding gearhead to the world of cars, some credit must be shared with the plastic model kit. While not nearly as prevalent today as they used...

Vodka Torque: This Video Showing The Build Of A Modified Lada Using Four Differentials Is Awesome –

The Garage 54 YouTube Channel is one of the more bizarre and awesome places to find interesting car stuff. These Russian guys perform all kinds of wacky experiments just because they can. Most of...

Watch Chad On The Tri5Mob Podcast Talking About Rusty, Chassis Swaps, And More Shenanigans

The gang from the Tri5Mob are some good dudes who have a fun web show they do each week, talking about Tri5 Chevrolets, the people who own them, and sometimes the tech behind them. I’ve known...

Is This The Sketchiest Trail Repair EVER? Flex, Rocks, And Rollovers Brings Us Crawlers, Carnage & Chaos at the Sand Mines!

We just finished Rocky Mountain Race Week, and there is a ton of carnage on events like it that require creativity to fix so you can make it down the road. People are always looking at some of the...

QA1 Project Corkscrew Update: This Video Shows The First Pre-Build Drive Of The 1969 D100 Truck!

You don’t know where you are going if you don’t know where you came from, right? That’s the point of this QA1 Project Corkscrew update video. You are going to see this virtually...

The Walk of Fame: Feats Of Human Strength At The Pick A Part’s $59.99 Carry Out Day

It is one of the enduring promotions that wrecking yards across the country run from time to time. “Everything you can carry out for $59.99.” This video is awesome proof of the lengths...

Size Matters: When The World’s Largest Enclosed Ramp Truck Isn’t Enough, You Add A Big Trailer.

Because Finnegan and Newbern just keeping adding more and more and more and more vehicles to the fleet, there is a need to be able to haul more than one of them at a time and that has resulted in...

Clay Millican Goes To NASCAR Country, Gets Distracted, And Ends Up At Modern Racing With Lyle Barnett And Justin Swanstrom

Clay Millican cracks me up. This dude is ultra talented, never shuts up, and is so genuine that you just can’t help but love the guy. And, again, he’s a hell of a racer. So he takes a...

Incredible: This Guy Pulled A Hot Rodded 2JZ Out Of His Volvo Wagon and Plugged A Lambo V10 IN!

There are cars that lead interesting lives and then there are cars that lead super hero lives. This 1975 Volvo station wagon is one of those super heroes because it has had stuff done to it that even...

Fun At The Strip: A Cummins Powered Ram Takes On A Lamborghini Huracan For Grudge Racing Fun

Now this is drag racing fun as it should be! You are going to see a Cummins powered Ram taking on a Lamborghini Huracan for grudge racing fun at Kil-Kare Raceway in Ohio. Lavon Miller of Firepunk...

Know It All: Here’s Why Weight Has No Effect On Your Car’s Top Speed

This is likely a topic that is not breaking news to lots of BangShifters out there, but for some of you younger guys it might be. I have actually chatted about this stuff with my sons in the last...

If A Buick And A Ford Had A Baby, It Would Look This Ugly Right Here. Wow, And WOW! A Face Only A Mother Could Love.

This thing looks like it caught on fire and they put it out with a rake. I mean it is hideous. And yet there is something about it that everyone will love. Why? Because it is so ugly, on purpose, and...

Fun Video: This Collection Of Skids, Spins, and Overcooked Autocross Runs Exemplifies The Fun Of Carving Cones

We have long championed autocross action as one of the easiest and most budget friendly ways to have fun in a car. From the seriousness of an SCCA event to the fun and frivolity of local gatherings,...