Category Archive: FORD, TECH, Videos
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...
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...
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...
Hang Out With Finnegan In His Garage As He Rebuilds The Wood Floor On Roadkill’s Chevy Ramp Truck!
We’re fans of Roadkill, Hot Rod Garage, Roadkill Garage (yes, one of us is buying someone at TEN a snack a month) and all of the fun that they have. But we know that there are days that you...
On The 30th Anniversary Of The Accident That Ended Group B Rally, A Retrospect On Henri Toivonen
Auto racing is a dangerous sport. That hasn’t been contested since the automobile appeared, and certainly not after the first auto racing fatality. The addiction to speed, the desire to succeed...
Check Out This Creepy Introduction To A Historical British Police Special, A Rover 3500!
Here in the States, we have our historical cop cars: the Chevrolet Caprice 9C1, the Ford Crown Victoria P71, the Dodge and Plymouth 440-powered Pursuits, and more. In England, they have this: the...
Crash And Burn: See How Burnouts Go Bad In This All-Aussie Compilation!
There isn’t one engineer at any OEM manufacturer on the planet that is able to prepare parts that truly hold up to the stresses, heat, and violence of an Australian burnout competition. No...