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Good Vibrations March Meet 2016 Friday Drag Strip Action From Famoso Raceway!

It was a day of big numbers, big carnage, and big surprises as racers attacked the historic quarter mile at Famoso Raceway in Bakersfield California during the second day of the 2016 Good Vibrations...

Good Vibrations March Meet 2016: Friday Pit Thrash Photos! Lots Of Work Being Done

Friday was a hard luck day at the 2016 Good Vibrations March Meet. There was carnage a plenty in virtually every class and especially in the nitro burning categories. There were funny cars flipping...

March Meet 2016 Photo Coverage: Friday In The Famoso Grove At Bakersfield

As we told you the other day lots of the show at the March Meet takes place off of the track. Not that far off of the track, mind you but basically parallel to it in the Famoso Grove. From the guys...

What Does It Look Like When Two Grandmothers Take A Lamborghini Murcielago On A Trip To The Shop? It’s Great Fun!

On one side of my family, my grandmother owned a third-gen Pontiac Trans Am and used it daily, with no qualms whatsoever about opening it up when the mood hit her. Many, many times she’d take...

Classic YouTube: Pro Stock Eliminator Footage From The 1988 Australian Drag Racing Nationals At Willowbank Raceway!

I love 1980s Pro Stock footage. You have screaming engines that the drivers are willing to rev to the moon, dry hops, burnouts in excess, yet you still have cars that are basically the cars you see...

FCA Teases Two Of The Concept Jeeps That Will Appear At The 2016 Easter Jeep Safari: “Trailcat” and “Crew Chief”!

Every year Jeep brings out some tasty treats to the Easter Jeep Safari in Moab, Utah. This serves two purposes: it’s a kind of “thank you” to the legions of Jeep-loyal fans that...

Watch As This FPV F6 Blasts Deep Into The Nines – Six Cylinder, Six-Speed Auto And Street Driven!

Had you told anyone twenty years ago that a car like this FPV (Ford Performance Vehicles) F6 would exist, you would have been laughed out of town. A rear-drive sedan? GM had just killed the B-bodies...

BangShift Project Files: This 1964 Chrysler Newport Is In The Works To Become A Tribute Push Car!

Finding a deal on an older car can still happen…you just have to have the right connections and a little luck. In the case of forum member “Cobra_4”, that luck led him to a...

Ka-Boom! Watch As The GEMWAR Holden Gemini’s Fuel Tank Explodes During A Burnout Contest!

The car is “GEMWAR”, a Holden Gemini that is everything that you would expect an Aussie burnout car to be: Flashy, loud and when the gas pedal is matted, exceptionally violent. Built by...

Craigslist Find: This 1974 Dodge Power Wagon Is Too Big For The City And Too Nice To Not Drive!

Reading the listing for this 1974 Dodge Power Wagon makes you feel outright sorry for the guy who is selling the truck, it really does. This Dodge was gone through three years ago in a frame-off...

This 1955 Studebaker Champion Deluxe Is A Beautiful Driver That Is Surprisingly Attainable!

It’s amazing to think that the new-for-1953 Studebaker coupes were a failure. Once the company got their act together after a horrendous start that involved bad tooling and production delays,...

Scrapple, Your Guide To The “meh”-Worthy News! This Week, The Guy Who Punked VW, Ferrari SUVs, And More!

The Geneva Motor Show has been the focus of the week, where a stomper of a Corvette and Bugatti’s latest warp-speed missile have been unveiled. After that, it’s a ton of super cars that...

Here’s All The Qualifying Sheets From Thursday At The 2016 Good Vibrations March Meet

(Photos by Mike English) – Here’s the full slate of sportsman qualifying sheets from the first day of the 2016 Good Vibrations March Meet at Famoso Raceway in Bakersfield, California....

2016 Good Vibrations March Meet Coverage: Pit Thrash Photos and Cool Cars In The Famoso Grove

The 2016 Good Vibrations March Meet is more than just a drag race. There’s a bunch of great stuff going on all around the facility. Of course lots of fans like to check out the action in the...