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Category Archive: ENGINES, MOPAR, Videos

Ever Wonder What Twenty Years Does To A Car’s Horsepower? Doug DeMuro Puts His 1997 Dodge Viper GTS On The Dyno!

Twenty years can do wonders for aging. In 1997, I was fourteen, filled with hormones, able to run as long as I felt like running, with a body that could take punishment and keep moving with little...

Leno Shows Off The Cunningham C3 That He’s Been Restoring For Years – Hemi Power And Italian Styling, It’s A Winner!

Briggs Cunningham had the life. For the 96 years that he lived on this planet, the wealthy sportsman did it all…sailed vessels, raced cars, built businesses, and lived well in the upper crust...

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Send Your Mom Off-Roading In A Luxury SUV And Film Her Reactions…Sounds Awesome!

Getting my mother to do anything automotive was like pulling teeth. Outside of the occasional half-throttle blast onto the highway in her 1975 Olds Omega, she was trepidation personified behind the...

Mighty Car Mods Go For The Tens By Swapping A Turbo Barra Six Into A Toyota Sedan!

We aren’t 100% sure, but we have a feeling that the lads at Mighty Car Mods may have been influenced when they came to the United States to play with a beat-up Impala not too long ago, because...

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“Dirt Don’t Hurt”? Tell That To These Off-Roaders – Four Minutes Of Maximum Destruction Inside!

“God made dirt, and dirt don’t hurt.” Uh-huh…right up until the first time you lost a war with gravity while riding a bicycle, anyways. The dirt hurts plenty, especially when...

We Might Not Understand How Doing Donuts In A Duster Sells Bicycles, But We Aren’t Arguing…

We will be straight-up about it: we don’t get the correlation between ripping a beauty of a smokeshow in a Plymouth Duster and the sales plan for a brand-new bike, but we are not complaining...

Petrolicious Checks Out A 1969 Dodge Charger – Real Hemi, Real Four Speed, Not Supposed To Be Green!

There will be argument until the end of time about this, but if you really, truly, must pin the musclecar era down to one vehicle, then it’s hard to argue against a 1969 Dodge Charger. There is...

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Let The Anger Go: UCSMOKE Goes For The Final Kill After A Rough Brashernats’ Outing!

For Steven Loader, the 2017 Brashernats proved to not be his lucky day at the skidpad with his Holden burnout car, UCSMOKE. During qualifying, one of the exhaust pipes came loose and barfed fire at...

Never Seen Flight Like That: Watch This GMC Mega Truck Launch Over Five Other Monsters!

Scott Green and his GMC mega truck, “Sail”, have a reputation: Scott makes a clanking noise when he walks, and the GMC achieves flight that some small planes have trouble achieving with a...

The Grand Tour’s Richard Hammond Escaped This Monster Crash With A Fractured Knee

The Grand Tour presenter Richard Hammond must be part cat, because he’s using up spare lives rather quickly. The former Top Gear presenter, who in 2006 very nearly bought the farm after a jet...

Morning Symphony: The Bisimoto Odyssey Burning The Tires Down With Only 4/10ths Of Power On-Hand!

You know this Honda Odyssey. This is the Bisimoto creation that still, years later, is the most wicked minivan that we’ve ever known about. 1,029 horsepower out of an extremely worked over...

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The Parachute Isn’t Optional! Watch What Happens When This Corvette Loses The Chute!

Over 150 miles an hour in the quarter requires a parachute, according to the NHRA. And for good reason…no shutdown area is long enough for brakes only when you are coming in hot. I don’t...

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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