It Finally Happened—Someone Replaced Car Tires With Saw Blades
If Speed Racer taught us anything, it’s that our cars can only be improved by the addition of specialized and…
Watch an Engine Run With a Wood Cylinder Head for the Sake of Science
We all love weird science experiments. I’m personally a real big fan of the crazy stuff those Garage 54 guys do. One…
What Happens When a Tire Made of Rubber Bands Does a Burnout
Tires are made of rubber. Rubber bands are made of rubber. Ergo, based on the transitive property of equality, rubber…
This Home-Brew Subaru WRX STI Dirt Buggy Is Terrifyingly Awesome
Where I live in northern Nevada, the surrounding land is largely unpopulated high desert and mountains. Within a few…
Here's What Happens When You Bolt Four Engines Together to Create a Monstrous Inline-16
First the Garage 54 ENG team bolted two inline-fours together to create a custom straight-eight in a display of…
Here's What Happens When You Bolt Three Engines Together to Create One 12-Cylinder Monster
On Tuesday, we wrote about a team of Russians who bolted two inline-four cylinder engines together to create a homebrew…
We Found the Hardcore Honda Element
This Mad Max’d Honda Element, spotted by a reader in Pennsylvania, proves once again that less is more. As long as…
Replacing a Bus Wheel with a Giant Log Will Apparently Work in a Pinch
Sometimes when you don’t have a wheel or you do have a wheel but for whatever reason it won’t mount, but you still need…
Here's What Happens When You Bolt Two Inline-Four Engines Together to Create a Straight-Eight
Of all the wacky car experiments that the popular Russian YouTube channel Garage 54 ENG has conducted, prepare to see…
If Everyone Had A 650 Horsepower Nissan Micra, The World Would Be A Happier Place
This Nissan Micra has a VQ35 big six swapped into it, and has been converted to 4WD, and a couple of big turbos have…
Watch How to Build a 6x6 Off-Roader for Cheap
I’ve always wondered what it would take to build a 6x6 drivetrain, and as this YouTube video shows, it’s actually not…
Your Old Motorhome Absolutely Needs A Turbo LS Engine Swap
There is a certain level of bad idea that takes the bad to a new level. Ideas go in a linear fashion from awesome idea…
This Steam Room on Wheels Is My Ideal Winter Vehicle
How many times have you been forced to endure an ice cold car on winter mornings? Sometimes, no matter how long you let…
Inverting the Steering on a Jeep Cherokee So That Left is Right and Right is Left Looks Terrifying
Another day, another poor XJ destroyed for entertainment. Such is the tragedy of being such a cheap, stout, high volume…
Mysterious Mutant Toyota Caught on Film
The reliably-wacky internet has yet again surfaced something that has bent my mind into a shape that may never be…
Another Mysteriously Awesome Toyota Century GRMN Just Debuted In Black
A couple of weeks ago, the CEO of Toyota showed up to a track event in his custom pearl white Toyota Century GRMN,…
Man Replaces Car Battery With Box of AAs and It Actually Works
A Russian YouTube host and auto mechanic named Vlad replaced his Lada’s lead-acid car battery with a box filled with…
This Miniature Hoonitruck is Full-Scale Wild
Ken Block’s Hoonitruck is a wild creation by anyone’s measure. With narly four-digit horsepower and tire shredding…
Man Puts 38-inch Off-Road Tires On a Russian Sedan Using Enormous Wheel Spacers, Rips Donuts
If you’re going to fit 38-inch mud-bogger tires onto your small sedan, you can forget about cutting the fenders—you’re…
Here's How Hard It Is to Start a Car That's Been Underwater for Six Months
In the fall of 2017, Vlad from the YouTube channel Garage 54 ENG left a Lada Samara for dead at the bottom of a lake.…