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Category Archive: RACING & ACTION, Videos

New Year’s Day V-Drive Flat Bottom Hot Rod Boating At Lake Elsinore In California

Flat bottom V-Drive hot rod and race boats are cool as hell, and since the weather is often good in Southern California all year long there are a cool group of boat owners who get together on New...

Restoring A 250 Pound Bench Vise! This Would Be Cool In Any Shop!

A good bench vise is absolutely critical to any shop, and they can be quite expensive for a really good one. Of course, there are cheap models out there, which are totally fine for the average...

Dakar 2022 Video Highlights: The Final Stage Of This Epic Desert Race Is Right Here!

Dakar 2022 is done, and here are the Stage 12 highlights! Dakar 2022 is on and man is it already living up to its reputation of being one of the toughest races in the world. Famous racers and teams,...

Long In The Tooth: The 1982 Maserati Merak SS Was An Italian Looker That Had Lost Its Fastball

There’s something kind of sad about seeing a once successful person, organization, or thing just kind of limping into its inevitable end. For Maserati and the Merak SS that was the situation in...

Fish Out Of Troubled Water: Watching This Super Late Model Stock Car Attack Road Atlanta Is Amazing

There is something fantastic when we see race cars operating out side of the boundaries we expect to see them in. Back in the day it was not uncommon to see guys take the cars they ran at the Indy...

Weekend Theater: Steel On The Rouge Is An Incredible Documentary About The Steel Production At The River Rouge Plant

There are few factories that have actually and literally changed the world. Ford’s River Rouge plant, at its height was the most incredible factory that the human race has ever produced. Quite...

Deeper Down The Rabbit Hole: Uncle Tony Tests A Weirdo Fuel Vaporizer System – Does It Raise Economy?

Now that Uncle Tony has begun really looking at some of the kooky and weird mega-milage stuff out there in the world, it’s time to put the rubber to the road. A viewer sent him a “fuel...

Engine Tech: Daddy Dave Tears Down Proline Hemi Engine From Goliath

If you don’t know who Daddy Dave is, and who Goliath is, then you must live under a rock. Goliath, his Nova, is a bad beast and can really haul the mail as we’ve all seen. It’s got...

DAKAR 2022 Daily Video: Tension Rises To A Whole New Level As Dakar 2022 Nears The End!

Dakar 2022 is coming to a close and that means everyone is putting it all on the line. Stage 10 was one of the tougher stages, not because the terrain was any more difficult than the rest of the...

Metal Shaping Tech: How To Make A Tucking Hammer For Shrinking Sheet Metal!!

Karl Fisher at Make It Kustom just keeps coming with DIY tools and techniques for shaping metal with professional results. I love what he does, his enthusiasm, and his way of conveying these lessons...

Classic Equipment Video: Watch This 1950s International Harvester TD-9 Video That Concentrates On Landfill Work

A tool for every job and a job for every tool. That’s the way the world has pretty much worked since the industrial revolution. People have been making stuff to improve the quality, speed, and...

Cleanest Way To Organize Tools Or Tool OCD? Kaizen Foam Storage Tricks And Tips

I’m a big fan of tool organization and am the guy with the little plastic things that hold sockets, end wrenches, etc in my toolbox drawers. I also own a label maker which means I have well...

Look Out For The Cheetah – Ride Along At Goodwood At Duncan Pittaway Fights For Control The Whole Way Up!

We all loosely know the story of the Cheetah. A Chevrolet skunk works project to develop a Shelby Cobra killer that was headed up by Bill Thomas. Cars were built and raced without much Cobra killing,...

SU Times Two: The Hagerty 1965 Mini Build Gets Its SU Carbs Restored To Brand New Condition

Davin is hustling right along with one of the smallest displacement projects he has worked on a part of the Redline Rebuild series. This time it’s an update on the induction and valvetrain...