What's The Best YouTube Channel For Repair Advice On Your Car?

It’s one thing to read about how to fix your car on a forum or in a Bentley manual. It’s another thing entirely to watch someone else do it correctly on video. Thankfully, the miracle of the internet makes learning to fix your car easier than ever. I recently picked...

Sep 12, 2025

How I Transformed My $3000 Mercedes S-Class Into A Cross-Country Tow Rig

For those who haven’t yet had the pleasure, moving day is a life milestone that tests your patience, your wallet and your sanity. Chucking all of your stuff in a truck and transporting it across town is hard enough, but when you don’t have a truck and are staring down...

Sep 12, 2025

I'm An Air Force Pilot Looking For A Weekend Bomber: What Car Should I Buy?

Andrew is a Captain in the United States Air Force, and when he’s not serving our country he’s futzing around on Jalopnik and looking at cars that are more fun to drive than his current hand-me-down Lexus. What car should he buy? Welcome to What Car Should You Buy?, a...

Sep 12, 2025

Show Us What You're Wrenching On This Labor Day Weekend

Many of us have a long weekend ahead, and that means only one thing: wrenching. Lots of wrenching. Show us the daunting projects that await you in the coming days. I myself am down in Texas bathing in copious quantities of barbecue, trying my hardest to resist the for sale...

Sep 12, 2025

Watch Through A Glass Cylinder Head As A Two-Stroke Dirt Bike Engine Works Its Magic

Mmm, two-stroke engines. You’ve seen them in weedwackers, but you probably haven’t realized how beautiful they are, offering tons of power in a very small package. Here’s a close-up look at the combustion chamber of such a beast, through the lens of a see-through cylinder head. One of my friends...

Sep 12, 2025

Mixing Dark And Light Plasti Dips Made This Surprisingly Cool Color

I’m pretty sure throwing a gallon of black paint into a gallon of yellow paint would just leave you with... two gallons of black. Not so with this removable coating stuff though– it turned into a pretty fantastic copper/brown/dirty gold I’ve never seen before. Some of you regular readers may...

Sep 12, 2025

I Towed 2,000 Pounds With My S-Class And Then My Tire Exploded On The Highway

When people talk about what they’d hypothetically do in an extreme situation, it’s almost always bullshit. Panic is a powerful thing. It can’t be accounted for. That’s why, instead of me harping on about how my cross-country S-Class towing-a-trailer experiment went swimmingly, I’ll share the panic-filled tale of how it...

Sep 12, 2025

The Best Way To Wire Your Car Mods

If you’ve ever messed around with a car’s electrical system or fitted toys like auxiliary lights and winches, you may be familiar with the art of soldering– splicing wires together. It’s not hard, but there are a lot of tricks to learn to perfect the art and this video seems...

Sep 12, 2025

Are We On The Cusp Of A Corvette Rat Rod Trend?

For the , we’re seeing a C4 Corvette gutted and perverted into something terrible. I mean, terribly awesome. Are we at the early stages of a Vette rat-rodding trend? Our friends at caught up with this character somewhere in Michigan, where he explained that the car was built with $1,800...

Sep 12, 2025

Here's Everything Wrong With This Abused 73,000 Mile Rental Ferrari 458 Italia

Have you ever considered renting an ‘affordable’ exotic car for a day but haven’t pulled the trigger because you’re one frivolous purchase away from a messy divorce? Well, don’t consider it a lost opportunity just yet, because if this heavily abused rental Ferrari 458 Italia is anything to go by,...

Sep 12, 2025

The BMW Z4 With A Viper V10 Is For Sale Just Four Years Later

Four years ago, the Internet gazed upon the glory of a BMW Z4 getting a Viper V10 pulled from a Ram truck crammed up its nostrils. But back then the car was a work in progress. Now the car is complete, and it’s for sale, too. The excellent EngineSwapDepot, which...

Sep 12, 2025

What Happens When Your Barn Find Comes With A Moral Crisis

Usually, you just hear about the possibility of a car through word of mouth, with no promise of an actual, tangible automobile. Someone’s grandmother dies, or your college roommate’s neighbor is cleaning out their garage, and someone thinks to tell you about it because you like cars. You’re not sure...

Sep 12, 2025

How To Tell Which Tools Are Cool And Which Will Burn Your House Down

This Canadian redneck’s incredible YouTube channel narrating the dismantling and analysis of tools is hilarious, educational and my new favorite thing on the internet. Piet Hein, or as he calls himself, has been YouTubing since 2012. In case you haven’t discovered him yet, as I hadn’t until I stumbled across...

Sep 12, 2025

I Have Done A Very Stupid Thing And Now My Engine Is Locked Up

I stand looking at the 4.0-liter engine I’ve just spent hours installing, sweat and grease dripping from my face. After sitting for nearly a year, now has a new engine, and it’s all hooked up. But I’m not happy, because on the crankshaft damper sits a breaker bar that will...

Sep 12, 2025

I Want A Classic Daily Driver I Can Keep Forever! What Car Should I Buy?

Joe turns 40 next year. He clearly has a predilection for fun, stylish and maybe even unconventional choices, which is why he has a 2016 Cadillac ATS Coupe. But he turns that lease in next winter, and now he’s looking for his last car—ever. What car should he buy? Welcome...

Sep 12, 2025