Best of BS 2017: Thieves Literally Drive Off From Plant With Millions Of Dollars In Jaguar Engines
Dec 29, 2017Brian Lohnes15
In a crime that is pretty impressive for its completely brazen nature, British thieves rolled up to a Jaguar plant, hooked up to a trailer full of engines and disappeared with them. Apparently...
Best of BS 2017: This Ford Dualie Has Cummins Power To Get It Down The Road
Dec 29, 2017Brian Lohnes1
No “Fummins” is not a typo (which, let’s be honest we have mastered around here) it is some diesel slang for a Cummins powered Ford truck. That’s exactly what you are looking...
Best of BS 2017: When Dick Johnson Hit The Rock At Bathurst In 1980
Dec 28, 2017Bryan McTaggartComments Off on Best of BS 2017: When Dick Johnson Hit The Rock At Bathurst In 1980
A rock defined the 1980 Bathurst race for Ford driver Dick Johnson. The day had been going so well…starting the race in second place and leading for most of the first seventeen laps,...
That’s…Concerning: Rollover Testing A 1998 Ford Expedition With Nobody Buckled In!
Dec 28, 2017Bryan McTaggart11
As we make progress on turning the rolled-over Explorer we drug home into a pile of parts, we couldn’t help but wonder just what the rollover crash test footage looked like. Ford’s...
Best Of BS 2017: Check Out The Ramcharger And The ’57 Ford Truck Remote-Controls!
Dec 28, 2017Bryan McTaggart9
There are remote-controlled vehicles, and then there are the true scaled-down, replica machines like what you will see here. Take a look at the 1987 Dodge Ramcharger…at first take it looks like...
Best of BS 2017: The “WTF?” Files: Somewhere Within This Monster Is A 1970 Opel GT. If You Say So…
Dec 28, 2017Bryan McTaggart13
Every so often I come to the conclusion that I’ve seen just about every form of four-wheeled oddity there can be out there…and usually, three seconds after I have come to that conclusion,...
Best of BS 2017: This Supercharged And Turbocharged Cummins-Powered Dodge Charger Is A Freakshow!
Dec 28, 2017Bryan McTaggart7
Where do we start with WelderUp’s “Project Overcharged” 1968 Dodge Charger? It looks like an extra from the set of Mad Max: Fury Road. Hiked up on a completely custom frame and...
Best of BS 2017: Watch Stevie Jackson Reset The All-Time Drag Radial Record in Front Of A Packed House At SGMP
Dec 28, 2017Brian Lohnes1
It was the session that we had all been waiting for. Last night’s Radial vs The World qualifier was awesome with 3-second runs falling out of the sky and the world record being reset multiple...
Best of BS 2017: Man Vs. Wild: Stump Removal Done Right And Wrong!
Dec 28, 2017Bryan McTaggart2
Mow around it all you want, ignore it as long as you can…sooner or later, the ugly stump of what was once a tree in your yard is going to have to be extracted sooner or later, and it’s...
Best of BS 2017: The Rothmans Porsche 911 Rally Car Doing What It Did Best
Dec 27, 2017Bryan McTaggart1
Porsche might not be the first name you think of when it comes to rally racing. It probably isn’t the first German manufacturer you think of. Ok, it might not even be the second German...
Best of BS 2017: Project FIRE – How They Tested Their Heat Dissipation Theories Before Making Astronauts Live Through It
Dec 27, 2017Brian Lohnes1
If hot rodding is ultimately about solving problems and achieving new things, there has never been a better or more important group of hot rodders than the NASA engineers of the 1960s that drove the...
Best of BS 2017: These Two-Wheel-Drive “Rail Buggy” Builds Are Sweet! Watch Them Climb A Wooded Hill Like A Goat!
Dec 27, 2017Bryan McTaggart1
We’ve shown you rockbouncers, the unhinged, V8-packing, by-any-means-necessary full exo-caged machines that turn off-roading into a combative sport, but it’s not the only show going on...
Best of BS 2017: Is It OK To Like These Again: Chevrolet Lumina Z34 Edition
Dec 27, 2017Tony Sestito21
In today’s automotive world, we really are spoiled. You can go out right now and buy a Camaro or Mustang with a V8 with well north of 400hp, and it will be a comfortable place to spend time to...
Best of BS 2017: Here’s Some Footage From A 1954 NASCAR Race At Peace Haven Speedway!
Dec 27, 2017Bryan McTaggart2
On February 21st, 1948, after a series of meetings held at the Streamline Hotel in Daytona Beach, Florida, NASCAR was incorporated on the heels of a successful 1947 season for William France’s...












