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Unhinged: The Fastest Dealership Vehicle Purchase We’ve Ever Seen (That Didn’t Require A Suitcase Full Of Cash)

My in-laws have been hem-hawing around the issue of a new vehicle for a few years now. It’s not like they don’t need one…between the two of them, there is a 1997 Tahoe that...

Mike Maier Shows Us How It’s Done! Watch The Mustang On The Road Course At Charlotte!

Who says a guy from the West Coast can’t come out and show them how it’s done on the East Coast? Not this guy! When Falken Tires hauled Mike Maier’s Mustang and Brian...

Truck and Tractor Pulling Action Gallery: Elburn, Illinois Knows How To Throw Down! Killer Iron In Here

(Words and photos by Greg Rourke) – Tractor pulls. The concept is simple, you hook your tractor or truck to a heavy sled, a weight slides forward making it more difficult to pull the farther...

Who Wants To Go Lucas Oil Off Road Short Course Racing?! Here Is Your Chance!

Why is it that we are so infatuated with running a truck around one of the Lucas Oil Off Road Racing Series tracks? Is it because two of the best are within 30 minutes of my house? Or is it that I...

Sad Or Rad? This Blown Small Block Powered AMC Gremlin Has Got Something Going On!

It’s rough, and it’s funny looking, but is this Blown Small Block Powered AMC Gremlin Rad or Sad? With a Weiand Blown 350 under the hood and big Mickey Thompson slicks somehow stuffed...

2015 Syracuse Nationals: More Cars and This Time We Have Autocross Action Galore!

(Photos by Brooks/Ferrer) – So we’re back with more sweet Mike Brooks and Jose Ferrer photos from the 2015 Syracuse Nationals in New York. Some of these photos depict cars that are wet....

2015 Rolex Monterey Historics – More Action Photos From The Vintage Race To End All Vintage Races

If you are wondering why we’re still running photos from the 2015 Rolex Monterey Historics it is mainly because the event is so flipping awesome we have loads of photos left to run! Look, among...

2015 Tri-Five Nationals Coverage: More Square Chevrolet Goodness From Bowling Green

(Photos by Bryan McTaggart) – Before my mondo computer melt down a week or two ago we were showing you all kinds of great Bryan McTaggart photos from the 2015 Tri-Five Nationals which were...

Fuel Altered Video: This Short Film About The Metal Mafia Iron Big Block Chevy AA/FA Is AWESOME!

Sean Belt, a longtime fuel altered racer put together a team that has become known as The Metal Mafia. A short documentary on the team and their trip to one of the coolest tracks in the country,...

Classic YouTube: It’s Big, It’s Brown, And It Hauls! It’s A 700-horse Caprice Wagon!

If you want to see one car that Brian, Chad and I would all agree on, this slightly ragged-looking 1980s Chevy Caprice wagon would be a great choice. For Chad, it’s a Chevy wagon. For Brian,...

Ebay Find: A 158-mile Old 1982 Oldsmoble Omega – The Car Has Pretty Much Sat For 33 Years And The Plastics STILL Fell Apart!

I’ve said it before on these pages and I’ll say it again: the front-wheel-drive Oldsmobile Omega just might be the most pointless vehicle ever produced. Born as one of the RWD X-car four...

Don’t Want A Sand Drag Bike But Want The Wind In Your Helmet? How About ATV Sand Drags?

It’s only logical: someone had an ATV and loved to race it. They saw sand drags and thought, “Hey, you know what would be cool?” and the next thing anybody knew, a sociopathic...

Cool Video: Watch The Trailer To THREE MILE A New Brian Darwas Film That Follows The Rolling Bones To Bonneville

Filmmaker Brian Darwas has really built a nice resume for himself with movies that are really based around the hot rodding culture. They are not real films that gearheads can appreciate for the cars,...

It’s Official: UK Buyers Want The 5.0 Mustang! Here’s How The Sales Broke Down…

The amount of speculation on how the United Kingdom would take to fully legal, imported Ford Mustangs was immediate grounds for speculation. Some said that they simply wouldn’t move like Ford...