Judging The 2015 Gran Turismo Awards At SEMA – We Had The Gloriously Impossible Task
About a week ahead of the 2015 SEMA show I got a call from the people at Gran Turismo and they asked if I would be interested judging the Hot Rod class of the 2015 Gran Turismo awards at the event....
Rumor Mill: Jeep Red Rock To Make It To Production? Yes And No…They Are Making Some, But You Better Get In Line Now…
One of the more interesting vehicles in Mopar’s display at SEMA was the Jeep Wrangler Red Rock concept. Sitting on 35″ tires and looking for all intents and purposes like an...
Watch The New Roadster Shop ColoRADo Truck Get Thrashed In The Desert After SEMA
The Roadster Shop has proved over recent years that they can literally build anything and do it as well as the best in the world do it. Last year their insane Camaro known as Rampage was the talk of...
Force Fed: The New MSD Atomic AirForce LS7 Intake Makes Big Power Gains On The Dyno!
Top dog in the normally aspirated LS engine family, the 427-inch LS7 is an impressive performer. Forget all the 427 big blocks of yesteryear, the modern small-block version offers both more powerful...
BangShift Project Files: A Land Speed Racing Pontiac Firebird That Intends To Take On Several Records
Are we fans of land speed racing around here? Hmm…that is a resounding yes. We love Bonneville, Maxton, Wilmington, El Mirage. Lohnes has his hands in the East Coast Timing Association, and...
This International Metro Ice Cream Truck Had The Whimsical Hot Rod Vibe Nailed At SEMA
Truth be told there are always about a dozen vehicles you see at SEMA that are totally awesome, brilliantly done, and about as useful as a slotted spoon in a soup eating contest. This International...
Rough Start: Take On Your Own Cheap Truck Challenge With This 1996 Jeep Grand Cherokee!
Watching the Cheap Truck Challenge video inspired me: how hard would it be to find a useable 4×4 that is trail capable yet could possibly be used in an everyday manner in line with the ideals of...
eBay Find: This 1943 Clark CA-1 Airborne Crawler Tractor And Scraper Are Awesome WWII Pieces
This would have been perfect to run yesterday on Veterans Day but I found this gem a day too late. Either way it certainly warrants being shared because it is BangShifty in every way. The fact that...
When Moving A Locomotive, The Shortest Distance Between Two Points Is The Easiest Route. But What If There Is No Track? Just Make One!
The locomotive you are seeing is an EMD F-7A, one of the most iconic shapes for a locomotive to ever exist. Built between 1949 and 1953, one of the F-unit series of locomotive prime movers, was a...
Powermaster Performance Rolls Out New Looks, Products At SEMA 2015 – Late Model Engines Covered
If there’s one thing that we can tell you about the team from Powermaster it is that they must not have slept much during the 2015 year because they had a bunch of cool new products at the SEMA...
Mopar Muscle: A Load Of Photos From The 2015 Carlisle Chrysler Nationals
(Photos by Ryan Severance) – The annual Carlisle Chrysler Nationals stand as a massive gathering of virtually every generation and style of Chrysler automobile and truck you can dream up. From...
Cheap Truck Challenge 2015! Watch As A Flatfender, A CJ-5, A W-200 And A Kia Sportage Hit The Trails In Arizona!
Anybody who tells you that Arizona is nothing but sand and cactus is full of it. Head north…anywhere past the Mogollon Rim, the drop-off that separates Northern Arizona from the Mojave and...
Would You Rather? It’s The Battle Of Early 1980s Performance! Take Your Pick Between The Early 5.0 And A Fully Loaded Trans Am!
Would You Rather is the evil drinking game that we love around here, and this time around we’re playing for the end of the Malaise Era, or the genesis of the horsepower revival, pony cars. View...
Mopar Exotica: Someone Is Selling A Seldom Seen On The Streets Aluminum A8 Block
We love when people post up cool factory parts that we were either unaware of or that we knew a little bit about but nothing more. In the case of this cool Mopar A8 aluminum block we had an idea that...
