Category Archive: MOPAR, Project Cars, TECH, Videos
The Challenger Revival, Part 17: Cutting Through The Layers To The Inner Good
To date, most of McCool’s work on his 1973 Dodge Challenger has involved restoration: rust and rot repair, cleaning up the appearances, interior rebuilding, and so on and so forth. We’re...
History Lesson: The 1980s Front-Drive Offerings In The Name Of Performance
Look into the past and you will see a lot of ghosts of cars past, cars that were meant to make an impact. Some did, some didn’t. They were everywhere, then suddenly they were nowhere to be...
Troublemakers: 1972 Ford Falcon (XA) GT-HO Phase IV, The Car That Started A Panic
The Ford Pinto left people scared that if the guy in the van behind them so much as brushed their rear bumper, that their end would be a fiery one. The Bricklin SV-1 would lock you inside, the Suzuki...
The Dirty Cougar: That Cheap AeroCat Has Gained One Hell Of An Attitude Adjustment!
It’s amazing what a couple of months of being stuck at home can do when you have a car that needs work, you have the tools to get some stuff done, and you have a vision. In the case of the...
Epic Crash Test Video: Throwing A Volvo Off A Cliff In The Name Of Safety!
When you base everything your company builds on the backbone of safety first, there will come a time when you have to put up or shut up. Volvo has ridden the safety bandwagon for as long as...
6/05: The Mercedes-Benz OM605 Diesel…Yeah, They Can Hustle!
Alright, so for 6/05, you would think that’d we be hunting down some monster combo that’s got enough noise to stir up a local government meeting, enough torque to get a ship’s...
One Step Too Far: Has Vice Grip Garage Finally Found A Truly Dead Truck?
The one thing I appreciate about Vice Grip Garage’s Derek is that he has determination. Living in the northern wilds of the United States, right around peak Rust Belt, that isn’t...
Watch This Nasty 1964 Pontiac Tempest Make 728hp and 661lb-ft of Torque To The Wheels With Pontiac Power!
If you are a Pontiac fan and you follow events like Drag Week or event stuff like the famed Lights Out drag racing in Georgia, you have likely seen the 1964 Pontiac Tempest of Dave Hoover. The car is...
Close Enough: Finnegan Finally Gets The Full Force Of His Wicked Twin-Turbo Jet Boat!
Okay, by his own admission, he wasn’t a full 100% throttle on his passes. But anything over quarter-throttle in what basically is a wood plank with a twin-turbocharged Sonny Leonard mill...
More In-Depth 3rd Gen Hemi Details From Uncle Tony, With A Focus On The Camshaft
If you remember back a few years, we made it to 126,xxx miles on our 2006 Chrysler 300C’s stock 5.7 Hemi before we pulled it out and did an upper-end build on the engine. I was very intrigued...
Trick Flow Does Mopar: Watch This Pair Of CNC Ported 240cc Port Big Block Chrysler Wedge Heads Get Bolted On
It was not that long ago that Trick Flow came into the market with their big block Chrysler heads and people were super happy about it. The company with its long track record of high quality...
Insane: In Cockpit Video Of A Top Fuel Hydroplane Totally Submerging Itself At Full Throttle!
This is one of the most insane videos we have ever posted. The film was taken at a Lucas Oil Drag Boat event and it featured Top Fuel Hydroplane racer Jarret Siilvey and his 8,000hp boat becoming a...
Watch A B-29 Get Its Nose Art Added By An Officer In 1944 – Was This The Same Deaner Boy B-29 That Crashed In 1945?
At first blush I thought this was just a bitchin’ video of a WWII scene where an officer was adding the classic nose art to the B-29 he flew in during the fierce Pacific fighting in the war. I...
Morning Symphony: Man And Bike Versus Gravity And The Earth
For the better part of the afternoon yesterday, all I could hear was the sound of a two-stroke weedeater going to town as I cleaned up the better part of the property that BangShift Mid-West sits on....