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Beginner Metal Shaping: How To Make Compound Curves EASY With No Power Tools. Shrinking Stump, Sand Bag, English Wheel Only!

Karl Fisher at Make It Kustom does some awesome metal shaping, and often with cool machines. But he also does a lot of hand shaping, and even teaches classes on the subject at metal shops around the...

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How Does Walmart’s Hyper Tough Cordless Impact Gun And Impact Driver Compare To The Big Boys?

The cordless tool game just keeps on getting tougher and tougher as the various brands are constantly improving performance while trying not to change pricing. Or in some cases, while continuing to...

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Custom Land Rover Discovery Feature Video: Ian Johnson Builds A Land Rover Like You’d Never Expect

Ian Johnson is one of those guys that you almost never find behind the wheel of anything “average”. He’s more likely to be driving something with some rock rash and personality. So...

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Ultimate Flap Disc Test: CGW And Warrior Face The Extreme Grinder Test Rig To See Which One Survives Best In Round 7.

A couple days ago we shared the video from Fireball Tool where Jason was building the ultimate grinding disc test rig in preparation for the ultimate grinding wheel test we’ve ever seen. And now it...

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How To Install Freeze Plugs At Home: Squarebody Stuff Gets Started On Their 454 Big Block Chevy For Project Creampuff.

If you have never built an engine at home, then you might want to check this out! We’re following along as Chad from Squarebody Stuff starts the 454 build for his project truck they call...

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Our Final Pumpkin Run Junkyard Photos: Joe Grippo Walks The Junkyard At Fleming’s Pumpkin Run. Check Out All The Long Lost Iron.

Here are our final photos from the Fleming’s Pumpkin Run 2024. I understand why the Fleming’s Pumpkin Run has to be one of Joe Grippo’s favorite events of the year. I mean how...

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Photo Gallery: 31 Cool Buicks

We’ve been collecting up photo galleries of all sorts of car that we see during our car-guy travels, and this time it’s a gallery of 31 Buick photos. We would have liked to have more, but...

Cool Old Press Photos: 1957 Buick Century

When we hear the words Buick Century we think, 84 year-old woman. They weren’t always Q-tip cars, though. In fact, the Century was a pretty hot number back in the day and it was drop-dead...

Cyclekarts: We Want One!

BangShift.com forum member Mr4Speed sent us along a link to this website about cyclekarts. What the hell is a cyclekart, you ask? Picture a tiny version of a 1920s race car and you’re getting...

Gearhead Destination: Woodward Dream Cruise

With all the junk going on with the domestic car makers, Detroit needs a lift. The good news is that they’ll get a good one on August 15th, 2009, in the form of the 15th Annual Woodward Dream...

Video of the Week: How Not to Pull Out a Stuck Jeep

With the news that our pals at StreetFire and CarDomain recently joined forces, we realized that we were relying way to heavily on YouTube for our Video of the Week selections. After all, if...

Yet Another Fast and Furious F-Bomb Camaro Clone on eBay

All of a sudden, clones of Freiburger’s F-Bomb Camaro are showing up everywhere like they are the next Eleanor or something. Earlier this week one of the former movie cars from Fast and Furious...

Ford C6 Trans Brake from TCI

We know lots of Ford racers running C6 transmissions in their bracket bombers and hot street cars. TCI has developed a new trans-brake setup to allow those racers to be more consistent at the tree...

Ecoboost to be used on 90 Percent of Fords by 2013

Ford’s twin-turbo Ecoboost system will be used on 90 percent of the company’s engines by the year 2013, claims Ford in a slightly aged story in the Detroit Free Press newspaper. The story...

More of Our Videos, Now at MSDVideos.com

Several months ago, David Freiburger and I made a bunch of videos for MSD Ignition. The one called Set Your Timing has been posted for a while now, but more recently, they put up vids on how to know...

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New Wide-Band Air/Fuel Gauge from FAST

On the heels of announcing the new self-tuning EFI setup, FAST has crammed our inbox again with the news of its new Wide-Band A/F Gauge kit. The days are over of tuning your junk by having your buddy...

Shocker: Tiny Cars Cannot Defeat the Laws of Physics

File this one under, “Thank you, Captain Obvious.” NBC news ran a report telling America that tiny cars, like the Smart, Yaris, and Honda Fit, may put you at a disadvantage in a wreck...

AHRA Back from the Dead?

The American Hot Rod Association was drag racing’s great second/third sanctioning body during the ‘60s and ‘70s. It did the things that the NHRA was afraid to do and leader Jim Tice...

Fast and Furious 5. Yes, 5.

We just read on CarDomain via Jalopnik that the fifth Fast and Furious movie is in the works, starring your heroes Paul Walker and Vin Diesel. It’s supposed to be set in Brazil. Engage hype...

Castroneves Tax Trial: Day Three of Deliberations

Helio Castroneves, the two-time Indy 500 champ and IndyCar racing standout, is on trial for allegedly hiding more than $5 million and not paying any taxes on it. It’s the third day of...