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Category Archive: CHEVY, FUNNY STUFF, Videos

Thunderstruck: Cleetus’ Auction Corvette Has One Hell Of A Backstory! Hear How The Truck-Engined C6 Came To Be!

Every car has a story. Someone built it, someone bought it as a brand-new car and from the moment it rolled out of the dealership, the chapters unfold. Some cars have nice, boring lives of just...

Great Idea Office, Nitrous Division: Cleetus And Crew Hit The Dyno With The Auction Corvette

Credit to Cleetus for making lemonade out of lemons here. We told you last week about how, in a moment of full impulse, he bought a C6 Corvette that had taken a mild tap up front from an auction for...

An Auction Screwup Or A Surprise Score? Cleetus Gets Suckered On An C6 Corvette!

I’ve only bought one car at an auction. The truth was that I was looking to get my then teenage brother a car, I had a budget…and after I got out-bid on everything else I tried to score,...

Legends Video: The 2018 NHRA SEMA Breakfast Assembled Amato, Prudhomme, Bernstein, and Force – The Stories Flew!

There’s something awesome about getting legendary racers together and letting them yak. At the 2018 NHRA SEMA breakfast, four of the greatest drag racers ever were put on stage and effectively...

The Hoonicorn Was Supposed To Be A Maverick? Hoonigan Tells Some Secrets Behind Gymkhana!

After ten different Gymkhana videos that require tons of back support, lots of details and tons of planning to pull off properly, there’s bound to be some stories that haven’t been told...

It’s Ford vs Plymouth vs Chevrolet In This 1966 Station Wagon Showdown – Narration By Lorne Green

Remember the good old days when car companies actually made cars? We live in an era now when seemingly every week we see news that car companies are discontinuing the production of, well, cars. Back...

Happy Holley Days! Holley’s Year-End Sale Is On Now Until The End Of The Year!

As we enter that time of year simply known as “the holidays”, lines of thought tend towards deciding what to give others for the year. You might have to figure out what to get the aunts,...

This 2018 Nurburgring Compilation Of Skids, Crashes, and Near Misses, Is Must Watch Stuff

The best kind of fun to have or be involved in is the kind where it feels like the rods are about to fly out at any second but they never do.This goes for times hanging out with your buddies, times...

This 1966 El Camino Promotional Video Is Crazed 60s Chevy Propaganda At Its Finest

There’s nothing like some wacky 1960s manufacturer propaganda to get our blood going on a Friday. In this video we see a big block 1966 El Camino compared to a 289 powered Ranchero, then...

Seems Legit: Watch This Wheel Horse With a CBR 1000 Motor Run 12s At Santa Pod

Now THIS is awesome. A a proud former Wheel Horse owner, I can tell you that they are great little tractors that can do a myriad of jobs around the house but I can also tell you that a fast walk is...

Ever Want To See A Food Truck On A Road Course? Well, Here You Go!

Ah, the food truck. A set of headlights, a set of taillights, and in between the kind of delicious bites that my doctors would have fits over. Name it, you can find a food truck of it. Mexican food,...

This Insane, Flame-Throwing Russian Hot Rod Is Proof That Cars Are The Universal Language

We have to thank the ever vigilant Matt Cramer of AMP EFI for pointing us onto this awesome video from Russia that shows one of the weirder hot rods we have seen in a long, long time. Basically what...

The Exhumation: The 1983 Chrysler LeBaron That Got Buried Gets Dug Up! Will It Start, And Will It Talk?

At the beginning of this year, we showed you one man’s final answer for a K-car that proved to be too much to tolerate. Tyler Hoover of Hoovies’ Garage bought this 1983 Chrysler LeBaron...

Who Failed Harder? Losing A Wheel, Or Forgetting That You Were In Reverse?

We aren’t trying to put the owners of this wicked 1967 Chevelle and super-clean Charger on any kind of negative deal. Things happen, oversights get made, or in much simpler terms, shit happens....