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Category Archive: FORD, FUNNY STUFF, TRUCKS, Videos

Roadkill! Old Meets New When Harry The Tow Truck Meets Pigpen, The Junkyard GMC!

Given the typical run of success that Freiburger and Finnegan have on their Roadkill adventures, we are kind of amazed that they only just now have gotten around to picking up an actual, honest tow...

Michelle Rodriguez Got To Drive A Jaguar F-Type SVR Flat Out On A Nevada Highway!

Without a doubt, comparisons between the character Letty from the Fast and Furious movie franchise and Michelle Rodriguez, who plays Letty, are pretty much inevitable. When the role you are most...

Cleetus’ Garage? Yes, Sir, And Today He’s Here To Show Off “His” LSX-Powered Willys Jeep!

If you follow drag racing or the slightly more illicit version, you should be familiar with the LSX Willys Jeep. The 1952 Willys has become the stuff of legends, and we’ve seen this monster...

Hellcat On Ice! Watch As Exclusive Cars Takes Mopar’s Mental Patient To 170 Miles An Hour On Ice In Sweden!

When Brian Lohnes, a man who tends to keep his comparisons realistic, willfully correlated his time in a Dodge Challenger Hellcat to the perfect drug, that should have said it all. When every car rag...

Columbine II, The Former Presidential Lockheed VC-121A-LO, Has Taken To The Skies Once Again!

One of the few remaining Lockheed Constellations left in the world is a lot more than it initially appears. Serial Number 48-0610 isn’t a Constellation, but a VC-121A-LO, a special VIP layout...

The Owner Of This Pontiac Trans Am Grew Up With Bathurst, Has A Rally Car Background, And Works For Ken Block – Petrolicious Tells The Story!

It’s difficult to find anyone who watched Smokey and the Bandit who didn’t walk away afterwards wanting a black-and-gold Pontiac Trans Am. The film company may have beaten the Pontiacs...

Which Is Better, Dual Quads Or Three Two Barrels? Engine Masters Slaps Both On A 383 Stroker To Find Out!

There is just something sinister about knowing that the monster under your hood is packing more than one carburetor. The terms are now legendary: Dual quads. Tri-Power. Six Pack. Say those phrases,...

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Looks Perfectly Safe To Us: Check Out This Jet-Powered Smart Car!

You know what kind of engine would wake up a Smart car? ANY engine swap. The original inline-3 has just enough power that you won’t get run over in most city driving, the CVT transmission...

Morning Symphony: This Compilation Of The Best Exhaust Notes Ever Should Be Your New Alarm Clock!

What moves you in the morning? The sounds of your kids running around the house and the urgent need to make sure that calamity is restored? The sound of a cat meowing into your left eardrum because...

Classic YouTube: The 1986 International Race of Champions At Mid-Ohio

For the 1986 season of the International Race of Champions (IROC), twelve drivers battled in four races to determine who was the driver’s driver. Running Chevrolet Camaro stock cars that were...

This Is What It Looks Like When You Ride Your Dirtbike Into A Barbed Wire Fence At 30 MPH

As I have mentioned many times in the past, there are some fundamental things keeping me from becoming a motorcycle enthusiast. The first is a distinct lack of coordination and fine motor skills and...

This Nitrous-Equipped Mustang Went Up In Flames At TX2K16!

It makes you sick to see this happen to a fellow racer, but one of the best ways to bring the realities of the dangers of racing is to see, without a doubt, just how quickly it all can go wrong. This...

Copart Cadaver: A New Shelby GT350 And It’s Flat-Plane Crank V8 Will Be For Sale Soon!

High performance car plus low performance driver always means that inevitably, a badass car is going to find it’s way onto Copart.com, the online search hub for everything dead and crunched in...

Classic YouTube: 1986 Chevrolet IROC Z28 Camaro Advertisement

How were automotive jingles still a thing in 1986? If there is one advertising trend we are glad has gone the way of the dodo, it’s singsongy lyrics to a pop music riff, and that’s what...