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Category Archive: Hack of the Week, OTHER, TECH, Tech Stories, Videos

This Downdraft Grinding Table Project Is Too Cool And Will Keep Your Shop Clean And Free Of Grinding Dust

The worst part about fabricating and grinding in your own shop is the fact that grinding dust and grime ends up all over the place. In fact, that’s why I’m currently planning a shop build...

We Totally Want To Have Some Cool Scooter Or Bike Like An Old Cushman, Here’s One Being Restored

In some ways restoring a motorcycle is simpler and easier than a car if for no other reason that the scale of the project be so much smaller. But that’s not always the case when it comes to...

Violence And Comfort: NASCAR Exhaust And Vintage Air For The Hoonigan Chevy C-10!

Violence and comfort in the same vehicle. Can it be done? Should it be done? Depends on your idea of a pure build, but we can’t argue against either. We like the idea of a screw everybody,...

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Hoonigan’s Build & Battle 2: The LS S-10 And First-Gen RX-7 Are Shaping Up!

The Build & Battle projects in the second round of Hoonigan’s war of the builders contest are finally past the teardown stage and are shaping up to be good. The goal is to get Brad’s...

From The Bones Up: Watch As Another Psychotic Power Wheels Kart Starts To Take Shape!

For a while now we’ve shown you the brilliant little over-powered go-karts that Grind Hard Plumbing Co. make using ordinary Power Wheels bodies. It’s effectively a way of realizing a...

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For That Smooth Feeling: The Modyssey Gets A Long-Travel Suspension Setup!

The last time we saw this Honda Odyssey, it had been stuffed full of snowmobile engine and was churning up dirt around Grind Hard Plumbing Co.’s “test area” with ease. It is a...

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Bath Time: Scrubbing Down A Mercedes That Hasn’t Seen The Sun Since 1982!

Have you ever seen one of those “ultimately satisfying” videos on YouTube, where everything that goes on…every noise, every action…leaves you feeling oddly good? It’s...

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Your Moment Of Zen: Lead Welding Techniques – Proposition 65 Be Damned!

“Lead Sled.” The term pre-dates Bondo, pre-dates easy bodywork altogether. You didn’t just pop a dent out, fill in the low spots with mud, and sand until things looked right....

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The Fiero Revival: Getting The Interior Gleaming After Years Of Being Grimy

It’s been a while since we last heard about Ronnie Finger’s 1985 Pontiac Fiero 2M4 revival program. He had dredged the mid-engined wonder from it’s resting place, had managed to...

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Brand Loyal: Tommy Youman’s Twin Turbo GTO Judge Has A Billet Pontiac Engine And It Is Ready To Take On The World – Video

If you are a regular follower of the small tire drag racing scene Tommy Youman’s name is not entirely unfamiliar to you. He has run a few DuckX productions races down at South Georgia...

Finnegan Shows Off The Death Metal Charger, Lights Stuff On Fire, And Wonders If His Stuff Will Blow Up Or Not

I feel for Finnegan on this one, because I’ve broken a car and been too dejected to deal with it at the time, only to find out later that more stuff was broken when it is time to get it done at...

Life Insurance Doesn’t Cover This: Britain’s Mad Scientist Creates A Jet-Powered Swing

While we’re not that familiar with how health and life insurance works in the U.K., we do have to wonder if anyone within the insurance system understands just what it is that Colin Furze...

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A Million Reasons To Pay Attention: Ford’s Train-Towing Video Has Some Very Real Implications

Electric vehicles are coming down the pipeline, that’s a given. There’s been a strong push for alternatives to internal combustion engine technology, and EVs are proving to be a fair...

Deep Fix: Can This Absolutely Battered Matchbox Impala Be Restored?

I’m pretty sure that I went through a few thousand Hot Wheels and Matchbox toy cars over my childhood. I had tons of the things…a 1955 Thunderbird with the real rubber tires, the Plymouth...

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