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This Incredible Video From McLaren Honors The Company’s Founder In The Best Way We Could Imagine

Of all the great motorsports figures to emerge and have their lives tragically shortened on the track during the 1960s and 1970s, Bruce McLaren’s name always looms large. The man was a force of...

It Came From eBay: A Six-Wheeled 1968 Cadillac With A Rumble Seat – Miss Cruella DeVille, Your New Car Is Here

A six-wheeled 1968 Cadillac that takes the word “custom” to new and frankly frightening heights, painted “you better f-ing look at me” red, with sixteen exhaust tubes running...

Take A Listen To This 10-Second Supercharged Harley Run The Strip – The Anti-Crotch Rocket!

Outside of the professional ranks of racers, the majority of motorcycles you see at the dragstrip are crotch rockets…light weight, excellent power-to-weight ratios, and high speeds are the...

Event Coverage: Pulling Trucks From TS Performance’s Outlaw Diesel Pulls

In the interest of being fully open and honest, I must admit that I’m not that big of a diesel fan…by that, I mean that I normally view diesel vehicles as either trucks that are still...

The Owner Of This Grand National Experiences The Highest And Lowest Feelings In Less Than A Minute!

We can argue for eons on all of the things related to hooning in public, but at the barest minimum, one thing we cannot emphasize enough is that there is always a time and place for it. If you want...

Back From The Dead And More Deadly Than Ever: TVR Has Returned, And Some Big Names Are Behind The Resurrection

It’s the age-old story that tends to plague the older British sports car marques: a succession of fairly capable British cars, lack of money, ownership changes, and it usually ends up with the...

If Throttle Stop Drag Racing All Looked Like This, It Would Be WAY More Entertaining – Ludicrous Speed!

(By Jason Mazzotta) – As a bracket racer, I understand and enjoy .90 throttle stop racing in Super Street/Gas/Comp, but to some throttle stop racing is repetitive and boring. Cue, Ernie...

Race With Us At The National Corvette Museum Track This Weekend

Optima’s Search for the Ultimate Street Car is coming to the National Corvette Museum track this weekend and it’s not too late to join us! There are a few spots left for entries, and you...

NAFRA Nostalgia A/Fuel Dragsters Are Ready To Run This Weekend!

Nostalgia A/Fuelers are going to be running this weekend at Rocky Mountain Raceway. The Summer Kick-Off and Funny Car Fever event promises to kick ass, and the Nostalgia A/Fuel Racing Association...

Free Autocross At Super Summit 2015 Friday And Saturday!

That’s right folks, the giant Super Summit event is going on this weekend at Summit Motorsports Park in Norwalk, Ohio and you don’t want to miss it. The crew at Norwalk is excellent, and...

Gasser Gear Banging Greatness! Old School Gasser In Car Testing Video. SEND US MORE!!!

When our buddy James Amos sent the link to this video from the first day of Testing for the Southern Flyer Gasser, we were immediately hooked. The video is from inside the car, and we’ve...

This 1966 Chrysler Town And Country Wagon Is As Factory Fresh As The Day It Left The Plant

This 1966 Chrysler Town and Country wagon is for sale on eBay right now and whether you like Mopars or not, you’ve gotta appreciate this thing. The man selling it is only the second owner since...

Unhinged: Sergio Marchionne Is Trying To Consolidate Automotive Industry Together, And It’s Going To Bite Someone Hard

It’s hard to speak of the time that Sergio Marchionne has spent working with the shattered remains of what was Chrysler in anything other than a positive light. After the divorce from...

The KTPA/FFA Alumni Pull Georgetown, Kentucky – Tractors Of All Shapes, Sizes, And Power Plants!

(Words and photos by Doug Gregory) – We hadn’t attended a pull in a good while and after making some contacts we secured blessings from the event organizers to shoot some video and pictures...