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Classic YouTube: It’s Midnight And The Streets Are Quiet…Time To Drift The Big Rig!

I can’t lie…I’ve done more dumb things after midnight that even those who really understand me would be capable of understanding. Name it…short of jumping a car, I’ve...

Classic YouTube: Wringing Out A 1953 Buick At The Autocross

I’m not 100% sure which particular model Todd Holdren’s 1953 Buick is (attribute that to my illiteracy of vehicles pre-1955) but what can be said without any questioning is that the...

Less Show, More Go: This Square-Body Chevy Grudge Racer Is An Exercise In Simplicity…And Brutality!

Your mind is the only real limitation you have when it comes to building up a square-body GM truck right. Pick an engine, pick a trans, pick a rearend that you won’t shatter like glass at the...

Not So Short, Really Sweet, and Totally Brutal: Watch The Dirty 30 Burn Tires In Downtown Buffalo Leaving The Autorama!

Yeah, yeah, yeah, we know that burnouts leaving a car show only lead to Mustangs in crowds and all that junk but hear us out. When guys are pulling their bad ass hot rods out of a convention center...

The Psychotic Shopping Cart: This 600cc Honda-Powered Trike Is The Toy We All Want!

To hell with every safety council that wet their pants at the sight of a three-wheeled ATV, I love the things. Honda 125 and 200cc three-wheeled four-stroke thumpers were what I grew up thrashing...

Wild Rides: Here’s Five Minutes Of Insanity From The World Of Nostalgia Drag Racing

This is five minutes of crazy. Five minutes of insanity from the world of nostalgia drag racing. Blower explosions, drivers getting bathed in hot transmission fluid, burnouts gone wrong, barrel...

Awesome Historic Video: Combat Engineers In Action During WWII – Building, Fixing, Winning

As much as I love old films from WWII, this one may take the cake. The video is a tribute to the incredible work and achievements of United States combat engineers during the war. From building roads...

Morning Symphony: The Renault 5 Turbo II – The Good Stuff That The French Didn’t Share

“Le Performance Car”…nope. “When there is a car from the country that just built the world’s fastest train”…congrats on the train, now try again. “Le...

Classic YouTube: “Styling And The Experimental Car”, A Ford Film Of Dream Machines

Concept cars…the dream machines that you never got but the manufacturers would sink millions into just to test some theories or to drum up some interest. They always had my attention…some...

The Working Giant: Take A Better Look At This Case IH Quadtrac Tractor!

As the sun (FINALLY) starts to warm up the areas around BangShift Mid-West, it’s quickly becoming Early Tractor Season. We get two seasons: early, where ground has to be tilled, fertilizer has...

Sampling The Forbidden Fruit: This 1978 Holden Torana UC Has A Lot To Like!

The Holden Torana was the mini-muscle car that could for Australia. The A9X and S/LR packages turned what was basic small-car motoring into something to behold with the addition of the 308ci Holden...

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The Prototypical Derelict: Jonathan Ward’s 1954 DeSoto Stops By The Hoonigan’s Shop!

Take a moment as you watch this video and study Johnathan Ward. He comes across initially as a college professor who has no trouble having a drink with his most talented students. Note that I said...

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Morning Symphony: The Subaru That Everybody Wanted, The WRC Group A Impreza

When you grow up in a household that is filled with nothing but love for American products and treats every imported car like a tin-can beater that needed to go to the crusher years ago, it’s...

Return To The Heavens: Take A Ride On The Back Of Virgin Galactic’s VSS Unity!

When VSSĀ Enterprise broke up over the Mojave Desert in late 2014, there was a knee-jerk reaction to what happened: since this was a private firm’s spacecraft, and since it used technology that...