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Category Archive: MISC, Videos

Cool Metal Fabrication Video: A Master Blacksmith Makes Real Wolverine Claws And Then Mangles Stuff With Them

As you might have surmised from the title, this post has absolutely nothing to do with cars, but it has everything to do with awesome fabrication and metalworking skills and those are things that...

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Destruction Video: Lots of Cars Crashing Through Lots of Buildings

We were thinking about this blog item where a car drove through a bakery, and decided to scan YouTube for some other car-goes-shopping videos. It’s incredible how much of this stuff is out...

Burnout Fix: Footage From The Race 4 Real Event At Sydney Dragway

Race fuel, fried rubber, heated metal and the sound of an engine at full song…it’s what dreams are made of. How do you get your fix? Do you like the slow and methodical methods, such as...

Morning Symphony: A 500+ Horse Camaro SS Blasting Through The Canyons

It’s my “love it and hate it” car, one I’ve almost pulled the trigger on twice. The 1996-2002 Chevrolet Camaro SS was my teenage lust, the new car I wanted badly, and could...

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How Well Can A New Truck Handle The Weight Of A Slide-In Camper? Check Out How Ford Tests The 2017 Super Duty’s Roll Stability Control System!

You often hear how a manufacturer runs their new, upcoming vehicle through batteries of tests before the first vehicle is ever sold to the public or even lent out to the press. What you don’t...

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Ouch! Check Out Busted Knuckle Video’s Latest Rockbouncer Crash Compilation!

Rollover procedure: Keep all limbs inside of the vehicle. attempt to maintain control of the vehicle while passengers brace for impacts, and wait for the vehicle to quit moving before attempting to...

What Would It Look Like If Ford Built A No-Rules Test Mule? Jay Leno Takes A Look At Steve Strope’s 1967 Ford Fairlane!

In the mid-1960s, Ford and Chrysler were at war, period. GM might have been working the field too, but on the banked NASCAR tracks and on the NHRA drags trips, the Blue Oval boys and the gang from...

Unhinged: The Most Exotic Thing I’ve Ever Spun A Wrench On, A Lancia Scorpion

(Lead photo: Hemmings) It’s safe to say that most “exotic” cars are safely kept away from me in some form or another. I’ll probably never own a Lamborghini or a Ferrari, let...

Morning Symphony: The Bugatti Chiron In All Of It’s 1,479 Horsepower Glory

Let’s get the problems out of the way now: it redefines “expensive automobile”, will become either a testbed for companies or playthings for the stupidly rich, and out of the...

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Track Time For Hot Rod Garage’s “Bonemaro” Budget Turbo LS Build! Will The Ragged F-body Run 10s?

Take a $10,000 budget, buy one royally clapped out $800 1979 Chevrolet Camaro, one junkyard 5.3L LS V8, an eBay turbo kit meant for a Chevrolet Silverado, and then proceed to hack, weld, bodge and...

Playing In The Mud With UTVs At The Southern Rock Racing Series Stop At Bikini Bottoms Off-Road Park!

The more we see of the Northern and Southern Rock Racing Series, the more we like it. These guys are drivers who have all of the courage and flamboyant driving style of a Group B driver crossed with...

Watch This Turbocharged Boss 302 Mustang Get On It A Little Too Much At A Half-Mile Run!

A straight-line, half-mile run should be extremely simple to do, right? Point the car toward the finish line, plant your foot to the floor, and once you pass the timing beams, get off of the gas and...

Rock Racing At Bikini Bottoms: Nasty Hillclimbs And Drivers Fighting Their Way To The Top!

If there is any great equalizer for a rock bouncer on a hill climb, it’s mud. Not the chunky, sticks to everything mud, but that slimy layer that really screws up traction and turns an...

Jay Leno Brings Out His 1964 Triumph Bonneville For A Spring Ride – Check This One Out!

Modern motorcycles are engineering triumphs…pardon the pun. They hit speeds that should honestly terrify the holy hell out of a sane rider, grip like a vice in a corner, and accelerate with a...