Category Archive: TECH, Videos
Mini-Overlanding: Building A Camping Trailer For Grind Hard Plumbing Co.’s Monster Jeep!
The concept of overlanding rules. Ever since I realized that I was living down the street from the offices of Overland Journal magazine back in 2011, the idea of a complete off-roading unit that you...
Like That: The Argument For Checking Your Machine Out Regularly And For Packing A Fire Extinguisher
My first project car nearly set my right arm on fire. That’s not joking. Had I not had the reflexes of a cat on crank, my arm from the elbow forward would’ve been showered with raw...
If You Lost Against This Turbocharged Dodge Caravan, You Missed The Warning Signs!
One of the best lessons I ever learned in life I learned during Army basic training. Without a question, at six-foot-three and 228 pounds, I was one of, if not the biggest soldier in training during...
How To Chop The Top On A Hot Rod: These Videos Have Us Inspired To Find Something To Cut Up!
A couple different BANGshifters actually put us onto Half Ass Kustoms on YouTube and their recently started series on chopping a top. In this case the willing victim happens to be a 1951 Dodge...
Weld Porn: The Plasma Bike Gets A Coffin Style Aluminum Gas Tank
Anyone who has ever fabricated a gas tank knows that there is a lot of work that goes into making one, even if it is just a plane box. But throw in a bunch of angles and such, like a Coffin style...
Historical Footage: MotorWeek’s Comparison Between The 1969 Pontiac Trans Am And The 1999 Trans Am 30th Anniversary Edition
Nobody…not MotorWeek, not GM, not even the buying public, could have seen that this would be the last Anniversary Trans Am. Sure, in 1999 rumors had started to surface that GM’s F-car...
Monster Mack: Watch This Twin-Engine Aussie Mack Cruiseliner Cut Loose At Bindoon!
Diesel freaks bug me. Not those who extract maximum power out of engines designed to produce a ton of power, just those who insist that billowing black smoke out of a trash can from underneath a...
Old School Norwalk Video: Watch Eddie Harris Suffer A Bad Pro Mod Wreck At The IHRA World Nationals
The IHRA get credit for debuting the category during their 1990 season after flirting with it by running top sportsman quick eight shootouts during previous years. The new heads-up eliminator was as...
Classic YouTube: Danny Bagwell’s 1999 Fire Sale Crash At Daytona
What happened, exactly? There isn’t much on record to the cause, but the aftermath was caught on video: during a Goody’s Dash race, Danny Bagwell’s Ford Escort ZX2 ricocheted off of...
Rhinoplasty, Stat: Foose Takes On The Challenge Of Making The Pontiac Aztek Pretty
In 1991, Homer Simpson learned he had a half-brother who ran a car company. The company wasn’t doing great, so they put Homer in charge of building the kind of car that he’d like to have...
Classic YouTube: Selling Binders On The Television
In one advertisement, the voice hawking the International Harvester line of light-duty trucks notes that they are competing against two big companies. Um…small correction: they were competing...
Fantastic FE Video: Watch A 482ci All-Aluminum Ford FE Big Block Get Built From Beginning To End
There’s nothing like a good engine assembly video to make us happy and this is a GOOD engine assembly video. Our pal Jeff was at Prestige Motorsports when the shop was building a 482ci...
Beautifying The Buick: The Hagerty Straight Eight Redline Rebuild Heads For The Paint Booth
We have been following the saga of the Hagerty Redline Rebuild of a Buick straight eight engine for a while now. This thing has been a bear in more ways than one and at seemingly every turn the...
