Category Archive: 1320 Spotlight, Apex Spotlight, TECH, XL Spotlight

These Tips Will Help You Weld Chromoly Tubing Like A Pro, Thanks To Tips From Bentley Garner

The welders in my shop are blue, as in Miller, and not only do I prefer the power of blue for my welding projects, but I also find their YouTube Channel to be FULL of great videos. Training videos,...

How Good Can A $1,000 Craigslist Mustang Really Be? The Smoking Tire Takes On This Well-Used SN-95!

The Rough Start posts we do, where I go digging through Craigslist while sticking to a five thousand dollar overall budget, is a reasonable approach to low-buck hot-rodding at it’s finest....

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RCR Reviews: Lee Iacocca, From Ford To Chrysler, The Entire Story

It’s quite fitting that Lohnes would find a K-car wagon today, of all days, to feature, because The Roman, the worker bee behind Regular Car Reviews, has dropped his research work on the man...

Morning Symphony: Thrashing Jeeps At Dennis Anderson’s Muddy Motorsports Park

A Tough Truck race might be viewed as an alternate form of a demolition derby race, and to be fair, you aren’t far off in that guess. But we tend to see the more positive aspect of the race: if...

Factory Freak: Take A Closer Look At The Steam-Powered 1969 Chevrolet Chevelle!

In the quest for cleaner, safer energy, experiments have to be undertaken to provide validation to the theory someone has presented. Take turbine energy, for example: works great as a propulsion...

Watch This Guy Fire Up A Screaming Axial Flow Micro Jet Engine On His Balcony – Think The Neighbors Freaked?

There’s a pretty incredible culture of modelers and scale builders out there that we’re blown away by every time we stumble upon it. There are guys flying model airplanes, quarter scale...

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Slow And Low: Check Out This Backyard-Built 1963 Corvair Lowrider!

Lowriders haunt me. Just when I think I’m past the idea of a slammed cruiser with adjustable suspension, one comes along that makes me take another look at the scene. Any other day, I’d...

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Mean Hauler: This HSV Maloo Lights The Tires Off While Trying To Run On The Dyno

The dynamometer. The automotive lie detector. The rollers. If you want to stop the BS and throw down figures, this is how you do it. No bench racing, no guessing…put your car on the machine and...

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Take A Ride In A 1978 Chevrolet Nova 9C1 Police Cruiser – Malaise Muscle At It’s Most Hidden!

1978 wasn’t quite the lowest point when it came to anything performance-related in the automotive world, but you could see the lowest point from there. 185 horsepower Corvettes, 180 horsepower...

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Awesome Video: A 1967 Documentary That Tells The Tale Of A Diamond Reo Dump Truck That Conquered The African Safari Rally!

In 1967 Diamond T and REO trucks combined to become the Diamond REO division of the White truck company. In order to get some publicity for this event and launch the trucks in a flashy way, the...

Morning Symphony: An Audi Quattro S1 Fog-Banking The Shop!

Audi’s Quattro rally cars are rally royalty. They are the four-wheel-drive beasts that took over from light, nimble, rear-drivers like the Lancia 037 Rally and Stratos and became world-beaters....

The All Pontiac Showdown From 1973’s “The Seven-Ups” – High Speed Wreckage

The 1973 cop thriller called The Seven-Ups featured Roy Scheider in the starring role as the leader of a group of plainclothes cops that pushed the edge of legality to get the bad guys. The movie was...

Watch This Pulling Tractor Break Free Of The Sled And Launch Itself Into The Air Like A Rocket!

The fearsome power of pulling tractors is kept in check only by really strong hooks and chains. About 99.9999% of the time, this is a wholly acceptable method of restraint but this video shows that...

Best of BangShift: Watch An Ancient Stationary Diesel Run Away On Fire Up And The Huge Guy Who Wrestles It Back To Idle!

As gearheads we all find ourselves in dangerous situations now and again. Maybe it is driving a race car fast, fixing something on the side of the highway as traffic flies by, or in the case of this...