Classic YouTube: HEMTT Burnouts – Boredom And A Detroit Diesel Make For Some Downtime Fun
By far and wide the biggest vehicle I have driven to date is an Oshkosh HEMTT, in various forms. These 34 feet long, 20-ton 8×8 monsters are one of the most unsung workhorses of the military...
Kick The Pig: Stirring A Sitting 6.5L Diesel To Life In A Chevy 3500HD
You ever notice how you can pinpoint an engine just by it’s sound? A deep, almost rhythmic bassline with just a bit of pop to it sounds like a big-block Mopar at idle. That raspy rise through...
Unhinged: Does It Feel Like Project Rush? It Does To Me!
From the jump, let’s be honest: given what I do for work, the pandemic and the lockdowns were going to affect me differently than if I had any other job. I write from home most of the time....
Went For Broke: Lost Footage Of Finnegan Going All-Out At The Freedom Factory Video Shoot
One of the biggest deals of 2020 that doesn’t have the word “pandemic” attached to it came right at the beginning of the year, when Garrett Mitchell (read: Cleetus McFarland)...
Laying Down Laps: Daddy Dave Working Through Pro Street At The Throwdown In T-Town
T.V. show or not, fame or not, Dave Comstock is one bad son of a bitch when it comes to being the guy in the car on the starting line. Whenever he rolls “Goliath 2.0” onto the line,...
Flight At The Museum: Get A Mini-Drone Perspective Of The Mercedes-Benz Museum In Stuttgart!
Feel like traveling to Germany anytime soon to check out the Mercedes-Benz Museum in Stuttgart anytime soon? Well…we don’t have to tell you how likely that is, do we?Yeah, we know, things...
Rough Start: Go For A Stretch With This 1994 Cadillac Fleetwood!
Thanks to COVID-19, a lot of businesses are packing it in due to a sudden, sharp lack of demand in services. Don’t believe me? Hertz has gone bankrupt. Yeah, that’s right, the land of...
Your Excuse To Go Home And Drink: LS Fest West Has Been Cancelled
Yeah, we know that events are finally starting to happen, places are finally starting to open up, and that it appears that a corner might have been turned in the royal cluster-…well, you know...
BangShift Question Of The Day: What Was Your Last Impulse Purchase For The Hobby?
Shortly after I woke up yesterday, I was texting with Luke from Thunderhead 289 over his latest acquisition, a big-bumper Ford Maverick four-door that someone went straight to the low-buck nuclear...
Morning Symphony: Renault Laguna BTCC Cars In Action
During my travels through Ireland and Scotland , the Renault Laguna had to be the one car that caught my eye. Don’t use that as a judging point, now…what little hands-on knowledge I have...
Pride Of Kenosha: This 1974 AMC Matador Is An Original Paint Survivor That Might Be A Little Boring, But It Sure Is Nice!
When it comes to survivor cars, we kind of love them all. We just don’t love them all equally. There’s an undeniably cool element in the “survivor” tag, right? The fact that...
Independence Chevelle: Getting Started On Something Resembling Safety For The Build!
Okay…we’ve established that the 1972 Chevrolet Malibu that Vice Grip Garage has started calling “Independence” was sketchy…no, it was “Holy f*ck, man, are you...
Listen Up: The Full Story of Operation Highball, A Land Clearing Operation That Mowed Down Forests Like Wheat Fields
For some of you, this may be old news. You perhaps read the feature I wrote on an ingenious land clearing method developed by two California contractors while working on a dam project in Montana...
Morning Symphony: Rockcrawling Around Calico, California’s Odessa Duran Loop Trail
Few phrases make an Army soldier cringe harder than “We’re going to NTC”. The National Training Center at Fort Irwin, California is infamous among the ranks for several things: zero...
