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Unhinged: Someone in Maryland Built A Mercury Comet Just The Way I’d Like

One summer afternoon when I was about fourteen, my stepdad brought home a completely flat-black 1973 Mercury Comet. It had been hit behind the door, but the door had been replaced and someone had...

They Nearly Stole The Show: How The Gray Ghost 1964 Pontiac Tempest Nearly Humiliated Factory Teams In Trans-Am Circa 1971

There are people who defy convention by necessity. There are people who do it for fun, and then there are those that do it to prove a point, no matter how costly the potential victory may be. Drag...

Ebay Find: A 1970 Chevrolet C50 Ex-NASCAR Ramp Truck

What use could you find for this 1970 Chevrolet ramp truck? Sure, it’s a bit rough around the edges, but that’s character. Everything that you need is there: a running 366 V8, a...

Watch this Hemi ‘Cuda Tear Around The Nurburgring Nordschliefe From Inside The Car!

Hemi ‘Cuda, Nurburgring Nordschliefe…I’ll take “Things that are so good that they are feared” for $1000, Alex. The Nurburgring Nordschliefe is the “Green...

2014 Holley LS Fest Registration Is Now Open! Enter Your Car Now! It’s The 5th Anniversary Of The Ultimate LS Event

Holley’s LS Fest 2013 was an awesome event that had tires burning, engines screaming, and fans cheering as everything LS powered, from old to new, was on hand in Bowling Green Kentucky, the...

The Incredible (and insane) Vermont Muscle Car Junkyard Is Still For Sale And Open For Business

Of all the things I have done or I will ever do in the world of “car stuff” none of it will match the sheer amazement, weirdness, and muscle car “shock and awe” I experienced...

Unknown Parts Counter Guy: There’s Lazy, And Then There’s Just Not Caring

I’ve often caught flak for going off on the customers instead of viewing the other side of the counter, and I agree, I usually don’t like looking behind the counter for the fault. We expect that...

Rumor Mill: Is The Viper Getting The Supercharger Treatment?

In the tidal wave of Hellcat news that we’ve been swimming in for a few months now, one Dodge product in particular has been left out in the cold: the Viper. With admittedly slow sales, things...

A New Angle Of The Blown Centless Pulling Tractor Catastrophe Emerges – Watch It In Slow Motion!

Yesterday we showed you Kevin Chriswell’s “Blown Centless” tractor literallty coming apart at the seams and spitting blown hemi engines out like Skittles. We had some fan video that...

Wahhhh….A Road Racing Car Lost A Wheel – See How The Tractor Pullers Do Front End Failure

Hey, who am I to take a swipe at McTaggart’s item right over there about the IMSA bodied Monza losing a wheel at Laguna Seca Raceway, right? That guy just have been angry, freaked, and...

Racing Carnage: Watch As This Chevy Monza Racer Loses A Wheel At Laguna Seca

Historic class racing is a great way to watch older race cars make a good run on tracks. It brings back memories to those who grew up with those cars, and for those who didn’t, it’s a...

Unhinged: The Saleen FourSixteen, or How To Hot Rod A Tesla

Steve Saleen unveiled his latest project on the lawn at Pebble Beach this weekend: The Saleen FourSixteen, his touch on the Tesla Model S. Yep, someone’s started hot-rodding Teslas. It’s...

Racing Video: Finnish Crosskarts Hauling Ass Through The Woods On Snow And Ice! Motorcycle Powered And Hella Fast!

Crosskart racing is one of those things that we probably should have know about but until a few minutes ago, were blissfully unaware of. They have been racing these little things in countries like...

CamShaftSounds.com Is A New And Awesome Place For You To Share And Listen To Camshaft Sound Videos – This Rules

Why didn’t WE think of this?! That was my first thought when I started patrolling around the new website CamShaftSounds.com and listening to all the mechanical goodness being spewed from my...