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A Short Strange Trip: Watch The Hagerty Buick Straight Eight Go From The Engine Stand To The Run Stand – Not Easy

Some jobs are quicker and easier than others, right? In this case the job of moving the fully built and dressed Buick Straight Eight that we have been following on the Hagerty YouTube Channel from...

Halfway To China: This Louisiana Bounty Mud Hole Just Swallows Up The Trucks!

“I can make that, no problem.” Second only to, “Watch this…”, that phrase has seen more after-incident action than I can bear to remember. I don’t know what,...

This Welding Table Project Is Great For A Small Shop, And Allows It To Multitask Too

I’ve been welding for decades, and whether you weld for fun, for work, or as part of your other hobbies, there is nothing more useful than good tools and machines. But no matter how good your...

Classic YouTube: The Day A C-17 Globemaster III Pilot Landed At A Regional Airport In Florida- OOPS!

With the last C-17 Globemaster III left the former headquarters of McDonnell Douglas in 2015, a chapter was closed in aviation history, but what a way to end it. The C-17 deserves plenty of respect:...

Classic YouTube: 1993 Toyota Camry SE – The Ultimate Automotive Cockroach

There’s a meme that exists regarding the third-gen Toyota Camry that The Onion created: “Toyota Recalls 1993 Camry Due To Fact That Owners Really Should Have Bought Something New By...

When A Beautiful Hacker Yacht Is More A Speed Boat Than Yacht. The Thunderbird Of Lake Tahoe.

(Words by Scott Liggett) There is just something about boats that were built from mahogany that just exudes class. The warmth of wood hand carved into a water craft just seems so much more beautiful...

Lost Steer, Part 3: The Maverick Gets To Go Play In The Muddy Field

Once the daily high drops below fifty degrees Fahrenheit, and the rain, mist, fog, and even snow kick in, the natural instinct for most people is to shrug off everything that isn’t absolutely...

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Load of Lotus: Check Out The Coolest Lotus Moments From Goodwood SpeedWeek 2020

There are few race car manufacturers who elicit the kind of emotional reaction from people that Lotus does. More specifically the brilliant, risk-taking, some would say reckless, founder of the...

Final Assembly Time: The Hagerty Buick Straight Eight Project Looks AWESOME All Decked Out

It has been a long road and one that wasn’t devoid of struggle but the sometimes resistant Buick Straight Eight that Davin was building over at Hagerty has finally reached the last stages of...

Might As Well Make It Pretty: Painting The Engine Donor Mustang Up

The original plan for this mid-’00s Mustang was simple: rip the Boss 302 engine out of the car and shove it into the best big-boy Bronco that the Deboss Garage guys could find. And like every...

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Godzilla Dyno Fun: Brian Wolfe Rips A 446ci Godzilla With Ported Heads, A New Cam, Intake, Calibration – Big Power

Brian Wolfe’s work with hot rodding the Ford 7.3L Godzilla V8 engine has been awesome. We have seen a load of different things so far and most of them have been a little outside the parameters...

Prodigal Buick: Driving A 1956 Special Back Home Where It Belongs

My father went through a few cars before his clock ran out in 2005. Most were simply daily beaters, nothing to get worked up about. He had a Pontiac GTO he always reminisced about, either a 1968 or...

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Classic YouTube: Playing For A Bricklin SV-1 On “Let’s Make A Deal” – Listen To The Crowd’s Reactions!

“Let’s Make A Deal” was a strange game show for someone who wasn’t alive when it was taped. Effectively, near as I can make sense, the premise was to dress up in the most...

Watch Ayrton Senna Attack Monaco In 1990 – Fast. Loud, and Violent

When you see a Formula One car working on the track at full speed, there’s a certain grace and composure that comes along with it, right? They do not bounce, heave, or look untoward when they...