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Shelby vs. Z/28: Motor Trend Pits The Two Prize Fighters Together In A Celebration Of Horsepower

Every magazine wants a “Mustang vs. Camaro” story whenever Ford and General Motors change up something on their pony cars, and that is perfectly fine by us: competition breeds evolution...

This 1953 Chevy 6400 Fire Truck Is A Unique Knight In White (Not So) Shining Armor

Boy, I really love old fire trucks and there are always a healthy supply of these working heroes on eBay but few of them spin my crank harder than the one you see below. While I am sure that there...

Team Kalitta Adds Rob Flynn To Awesome Crew Chief Stable!

Words by Cody Poor/Kalitta Motorsports Coming off the team’s highly lucrative 2015 season, Team Kalitta takes a step to ensure that success continues. Effective immediately, Rob Flynn has returned...

NHRA Announces Changes To Competition Index Control System

Photos by Jeff Burghardt Words from NHRA Communications   Bolstering its initiative to increase sportsman participation, NHRA is announcing changes for Competition Eliminator beginning in 2016....

Hanging Corners On Roads Barely Bigger Than Goat Tracks Makes Rally Driving Awesome!

This video from the guys at CameraCars is great and shows not only the view out the windshield of this rally car, but also the shot back at both driver and passenger seeing their dynamic and what is...

Which One Of These Sleepers Is Your Favorite? The Best Of Street Car Takeover

We’re fans of the sleeper look. Sure we like big tires and flash too, but sleepers are just cool. Which is why we love this video from BigKleib from the Street Car Takeover in Oklahoma. Sure...

Racing Junk Find: A 1976 Dodge Colt That Would Be A Riot!

Even though I’m all about American muscle cars, the 1960’s and 1970’s had some cool little rear wheel drive imports. And some of them make really cool drag cars like this little...

Grandpa Time Capsule Barn Find: A 1978 GMC High Sierra Crew Cab Dually We Lust For

Take a look at this! Everyone of you out there reading this had an old man neighbor who had the perfect truck that only got driven occasionally and who primped and prepped it non stop. That dude...

The Lamborghini Countach: The Only Supercar I Ever Loved…

I’m a hardcore American car guy. I’ve owned one import in my life and it was given to me. I respect and appreciate foreign brands, and am familiar with some of them, but they are not my...

The Curious Case Of The Floating Chinese Cars In This Video Ain’t Really All That Curious

When it comes right down it, everything has a logical explanation and while that may remove lots of “magic” from the world it does help people sleep better at night. The video below looks...

Hemi Heaven! An Up Close And Personal Look At The Amazing Array Of Hemi Mopars At The Muscle Car and Corvette Nats

(Words and photos by Jacob Marshall) – As a Mopar guy I have come to accept a few facts in life; everyone assumes you’re crazy, everyone assumes you’re loaded, and everyone assumes your...

This 1957 Fiat 500 Is Packing A Subaru WRX STi Engine In The Back And 11-Second Time Slips At Bandimere

Sure, it may fall into the “weird little foreign car” category but this little 1957 Fiat 500 that is powered by an angry Subaru WRX STi engine is quick enough to run 11s at Bandimere...

Burndown? Gamesmanship? Straight Up BS? Or All Part Of The Game – What Do YOU See On The Starting Line

The mortal enemy of drag racing automatic transmissions is heat and one knows that better than the guys running today’s crop of ultra-high horsepower turbocharged/automatic combos. Those racers...

Unhinged: The Wrongness Of Censoring Chevrolet’s Super Sport Models In The Forza Video Games

I caved. I recently retired my trusty Xbox 360 and the only two games I played on it, Grand Theft Auto Five and Forza 4 for a newcomer, an Xbox One and…drumroll, please…Grand Theft Auto...