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Make It Kustom, HalfAss Kustoms Cab Over Ramp Truck Build! The 1971 GMC Fire Truck Ramp Truck Bed Is Getting Designed!

In this video from the Fire Truck turned Ramp Truck, where Make It Kustom and HalfAss Kustoms have gotten together to thrash on Karl’s Make It Kustom rig, you’ll see the bed start getting...

Does Iron Trap Garage’s Fresh Blown Ardun OHV Flathead Fit In Their 1933 3-Window Coupe?

A couple of weeks ago we shared a video from the guys at Iron Trap Garage that featured a bad ass Blown Ardun headed flathead Ford that is truly something rare and special. If you missed the previous...

Olds Gutless Supreme: This Review Of The 1988 Cutlass Shows A Good Car With One Massive Flaw

While the Oldsmobiles of the late 1980s and into the 1990s made awesome looking drag cars (and still do!) they didn’t exactly come out of the gate flying in 1988, especially the Cutlass. Sales...

Massive In Miniature: This 1988 USHRA Broadcast From The Pontiac Silverdome Is Bonkers!

Well, this is peak 1980s right here. You are going to see an awesome and totally bananas UHRA broadcast from the Pontiac Silverdome made in 1988. What’s crazy about this is not any one specific...

Mind Blown: There Were Helicopter Airlines In The 1960s And They Were Going To Be The Future (They Weren’t)

This is the type of stuff we truly love to find. When you run into something that happened or some weird trend that was being pushed as the future which died out and you never knew it existed, the...

Lap Le Mans In A Porsche 936 Circa 1977 – Watch This 200+ Mph Monster Swallow Carreras Like Skittles

One of my top “must do” motorsport items is to attend the 24 Hours of Le Mans. The race is unequivocally historic, it is fast as hell, it is one of the great traditions in racing and it...

Who Makes The Best Compact Impact Gun? Because Most Stuff On Your Ride Doesn’t Need A 1000 LbFt Impact To Remove Or Install It!

I know that a lot of “normal” people will buy a compact impact driver to drive screws and do DIY stuff at home, but they also have a place in your toolbox for working on cars. With the...

Exact Same Pliers, Not The Exact Same Price! $35 Malco or $132 Snap On: Same USA-made Eagle Grip 11″ Locking Pliers. Hot deal

In 2024 it is not uncommon for tool companies to outsource manufacturing of their products to specialists in each kind of tool. You can imagine that having a factory capable of making sockets,...

Iron Trap’s Hidden 1938 Ford Convertible Hot Rod: This Super Simple Rear Gravel Pan Cleans Up The Custom Rear Of The 1938 Ford Convertible

In this update on the Iron Trap Garage 1938 Ford Convertible project, Matt and the crew are cleaning up the rear. They’ve already leaded in some custom tail lights at the tips of the rear...

Nasty Video: Check Out The Wreckage Left Behind After This Rotary Powered Hot Rod Suffered An 8,000 RPM Clutch Explosion

There is so much energy stored in various parts of our cars sometimes it can be scary. We see incredible things happen with engines that burn nitromethane fuel and those that are built to tackle...

Incredible Video: The Construction Of Camp Century – The US Army’s Secret Nuclear Powered Based Located Entirely Under Snow And Ice In Greenland During the 1950s-1960s

Allow us to show you one of the coolest and most amazing things you will ever see and something you probably never knew about. We’re not going conspiracy theory here, we’re not going...

Multi-Engine Throwdown: This 1989 TNT Series Pulling Broadcast Is A Legit War Between Legendary Pulling Families

There’s something about a vintage pulling broadcast that gets me ever time. Maybe the fact that I work with Army Armstrong’s son week in and week out with NHRA, the fact that the...

Get Trophy Truck Level Suspension For Your Can-Am Maverick X3 – ADS MBR Series Coilovers. These Arizona Desert Shocks Get The Job Done Right!

The side by side market is nuts. I mean who in their right mind would have thought that these factory buggies would progress to making hundreds of horsepower, have suspension travel measured in feet,...

FREE LIVE STREAMING DRAG RACING – 3rd Annual Hootenanny No Box Open – Sunday

Free livestreams are the thing here this week, with Rocky Mountain Race Week finishing up today, and the Hootenanny No Box Open is on today while we drive across Oklahoma on our way to Race Day 5 of...