Historical Footage: Richard Petty’s Charger Vs. Bobby Allison’s AMC Matador At The 1975 Southern 500
Aug 12, 2020Bryan McTaggart3
When AMC redesigned the Matador line for 1974, they essentially made two different cars out of the same name: the sedan and wagon were basically face lifted versions of the car that replaced the...
If You Thought The Block Was Cool, This CNC Video Showing A Cylinder Head Being Made Is Amazing
Aug 12, 2020Brian Lohnes1
Last week we showed you a video of a CNC mill creating and engine block from a billet of aluminum. This week we move up a step both on the engine and in the complexity of work with the video below....
Bonneville Speed Week 2020: Engines Galore! Some Of The Mills From The Salt!
Aug 12, 2020Bryan McTaggart3
Bonneville is a place steeped in tradition. For every late-model item filled to the brim with the best and most modern, there’s a Ford Model A rocking a Cadillac mill in the engine bay. For...
Like Nothing: Dropping A Fiat 126 On An Ax Blade The Size Of A Doghouse!
Aug 12, 2020Bryan McTaggart3
Do you have a temper in the shop? Come on now, be honest…after stripping out a bolt, after the wrench slipped and it now looks like you went ten rounds with Mike Tyson in his prime, after...
Pro-Touring Truck Shootout 2020: More Corner-Carving Race Trucks From Kentucky!
Aug 12, 2020Bryan McTaggartComments Off on Pro-Touring Truck Shootout 2020: More Corner-Carving Race Trucks From Kentucky!
A day filled with pickup trucks that can run rings around a lot of performance cars, out in the beautiful sunshine, with a track day going on in the background just for good measure…the...
Rough Start: 1993 Chevrolet Blazer Sport – The Dying Breed
Aug 12, 2020Bryan McTaggart3
Forty years is how long the Chevrolet Blazer K5 lasted in it’s original form, a two-door full-size sport-utility vehicle. That body shell outlived the Blazer name, living on as the two-door...
Pro-Touring Truck Shootout 2020: Corner Gripping And Ripping
Aug 11, 2020Bryan McTaggart4
Texas might be the pickup truck haven, but that status was earned decades ago when owning a truck in the wide-open spaces of the Lone Star State made perfect sense. It’s 2020…the pickup...
Bonneville Speed Week 2020: Night Two At The Nugget’s Parking Lot
Aug 11, 2020Bryan McTaggart1
Being on the salt all day is a double-edged sword. On one hand, you’re on the freaking salt, man! How can life suck when you’re surrounded by fast machines, gearheads, and one of the...
Angry Crackerbox: Chris Todd’s 8-second Ford Fiesta
Aug 11, 2020Bryan McTaggart1
Dear sweet ever-loving God, what a monster. Seeing this car reminds me of a shirt I had when I was barely a tot. I remember it well: “Dynamite comes in small packages”. For years...
Free Snake: Gifting A 1979 Ford Mustang Cobra That Was Saved From The Junkyard
Aug 11, 2020Bryan McTaggart5
Antiquing? Um…normally that’s a very, very hard pass from me, thank you much. I know that there can be some cool things to be found on some shelf in some store on any given day. Among the...
BangShift Project Files: MAX II 6×6 Amphibious ATV….EV?!
Aug 11, 2020Bryan McTaggart3
You saw these things advertised in the backs of magazines like Popular Science: the Max ATV, a six-wheeled amphibious device that looked like a bathtub with ambition. Argo, Recreative...
Origin Story: How The Tokyo Drift Monte Carlo Came To Exist
Aug 11, 2020Bryan McTaggart3
It was easy to mock the cars of the Fast and Furious movies early on, wasn’t it? Little buzzbombs painted bright colors, with random-ass graphics, bad bodykits didn’t make a great...
Odd Moment of Zen: This Video of Ships Intentionally Running Ashore Is Kind of Awesome
Aug 11, 2020Brian Lohnes3
This is one of those moments when I really have to recognize how weird that I am. Watching this video was both entertaining and oddly calming to me and I have no idea why. What you are about to see...
Drag Video: Watch This 1961 Dodge Powered By A Slant Six Take On A Mighty Hellcat At Mo-Kan Dragway
Aug 10, 2020Brian Lohnes4
We have to thank Matt Cramer over at DIY Auto Tune for sending us the link to this video of an interesting and fast pair of Chryslers at Mo-Kan Dragway in Kansas. On the left side of the screen you...












