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Category Archive: TECH, Videos

Ever Wonder How Anodizing Works? Watch This To Learn How To Do It At Home!

We aren’t kidding, this video shows you how to anodize your own parts at home and the thing is it doesn’t really require any crazy special equipment! I have to say, as a child of the...

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Take A Look At This Extreme Welding Table Build. You’ll Dig It.

We have a problem. An addiction actually. We are addicted to cool welding tables. We want to build lots of them, we can’t help but watch other people build them, and every time we see a new one...

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Classic YouTube: A Brutal Street Stock Flip At Thunderhill Raceway In Tennessee

Ah, Street Stock…where many a 1970s and 1980s car have gone to live the life that fits somewhere between that of a NASCAR stocker and a gladiator. It’s budget racing if you want to get...

A Restomod, A Ute And A Mopar: This CL Valiant Ute Is A Dream Concept Come True!

Chad thinks that within a couple of years, that he’ll have me in a “traditional” Mopar. I think that means that he believes that he’ll find a way that I’ll suddenly fall...

A Workday Dream: Hooking A HEMTT Up To The Sled At A Pull!

This should qualify as cheating in some sense of the word. The Oshkosh HEMTT series of military trucks are beasts…Detroit Diesel powered, 8×8 beasts that weigh as much as a starter home...

A Gift For Chad: This Holden Campervan Is A Factory-Built RV Conversion!

As I’m typing this out, Chad is on his way to LS Fest West, where he’ll be spending a few days drowning in all things late-model GM. He’ll be in heaven, for sure, but unless some...

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This 1955 Chrysler Promotional Film Touts The Famous $100,000,000 Look – Great Watch

1955 was a huge year for the auto industry in America and Chrysler needed it to be a good one. In typical Chrysler fashion, they didn’t completely slay it but they did make some hay while the...

Get A Grip: Big Tire And True Street No-Prep Racing From Ozark Raceway Park!

If you’re going to roll into an event with some big-ass tires steamrolling underneath your ride and still have a license plate bolted onto the ride, two things should happen: you need to prove...

Watch The 1988 NHRA Winston All-Stars From Atlanta Right Here – Really Fun Stuff!

As you read this I’ll be heading to or working at Atlanta Dragway as part of the 2018 NHRA Southern Nationals. Atlanta Dragway was still a pretty new joint back in 1988 when this video was made...

Just Send It: A Rainy Day At The Nurburgring And A Raptor…Why Not Drift The Green Hell?

There is no question that this is a full-on PR stunt, but c’mon…putting a Ford Raptor on the Nurburgring alone is a pretty solid move, putting Vaughn Gittin, Jr. behind the wheel promises...

Eff The Rule Book: Demolition Drag Racing Is What Happens When The Patients Run The Asylum!

Drag racing is an ORGANIZED sport! Organization is what gave drag racing some legitimacy during the days where hot-rodders were looked at as a plague on society in their chopped-up gow jobs,...

A Flippin’ Good Time: Ramping Beaters In Britain For Charity (And Carnage!)

There are limitless ways to send that old beater that nobody wants on to the great parking lot in the sky without just sending the car over the scales and collecting your cash. There’s...

Watch The 1988 NHRA Southern Nationals Right Here – This Was A Race For The Ages

Ahhhhh yes, as we continue on with the 2018 NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing season Atlanta Dragway looms large on the horizon. That’s where we are racing this year as one of the tour’s true...

Morning Symphony: The Gringo Malibu Launching Like A Missile!

Growing up, a four-door G-body Malibu would’ve been labeled a “parts car” and pushed out into the far sections of the yard. One in particular stayed in memory: a white Malibu, tan...