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The Owner Of This Pontiac Trans Am Grew Up With Bathurst, Has A Rally Car Background, And Works For Ken Block – Petrolicious Tells The Story!

It’s difficult to find anyone who watched Smokey and the Bandit who didn’t walk away afterwards wanting a black-and-gold Pontiac Trans Am. The film company may have beaten the Pontiacs...

Amazing Engine Tech: SAM Tech eliminates The Competition By Wringing 825 hp and 8,300 RPM From An NHRA Legal LS7 Stocker Mill

(Words and photos by Stephen Kim) – Any bozo can slap a supercharger on a stock 505 horsepower LS7 small-block and pick up another 200 hp. Yawn. Increasing output that same 200 hp through...

TX2K 2016 Coverage: Hot And Heavy Action From Royal Purple Raceway – Awesome Cars

(Photos by Charles Wickam) – TX2K is one of those events that has taken on life of its own and it did so in a viral fashion. An interesting hybrid that has elements of traditional drag racing...

Event Coverage: The 2016 I-X Piston Powered Auto-Rama – Most Awesome Show In America!

(Words and photos by Mike Brooks- Gasoline Images) – Those of you out there that know anything about the I-X Center in Cleveland, OH know the place is insanely massive. The 2.2 million sq ft...

Which Is Better, Dual Quads Or Three Two Barrels? Engine Masters Slaps Both On A 383 Stroker To Find Out!

There is just something sinister about knowing that the monster under your hood is packing more than one carburetor. The terms are now legendary: Dual quads. Tri-Power. Six Pack. Say those phrases,...

Unknown Parts Counter Guy: A Five-Point Plan To Happiness, Courtesy Of One Of The Angriest Guys Behind The Counter!

I am only just one person, one of millions who have manned the counters, the phones, the lifts, and spend every working hour interacting with both the public and the machines that the public relies...

AFCO, Dynatech, and PRO Shocks 2016 Catalogs Are Out Now! Download Or Free Print Copy

When it comes to the high performance aftermarket, the catalog is the device that built this industry into the powerful colossus that it is today. From the old guy behind the counter with hundreds of...

Looks Perfectly Safe To Us: Check Out This Jet-Powered Smart Car!

You know what kind of engine would wake up a Smart car? ANY engine swap. The original inline-3 has just enough power that you won’t get run over in most city driving, the CVT transmission...

Somebody Wadded Up A $1.5 Million Porsche 918 After Only 92 Miles and It Is For Sale On Copart

(By Eric Rood) – It’s not every day you stumble over one of the most advanced cars in history with 92 miles on it selling for a few thousand clams, but if you’ve got the right kind of...

Rough Start: Capitalizing On Someone Else’s Bad Day – What Would You Do With A $1,000 Fox Body Mustang?

Fox-body Mustangs are at an interesting point right now: they are certainly classics, excellent hot-rod fodder, and are finally starting to surge up in value, yet are still very approachable in...

Brutal Video: In-Car and Outside Car Footage Of The Peter Fetela Rally America Wreck – Both Men OK

(By Eric Rood) – We’re still pretty sure that rally is the craziest form of racing, if only because it’s possible—nay, likely—that at some point when you launch your Subaru over a...

Morning Symphony: This Compilation Of The Best Exhaust Notes Ever Should Be Your New Alarm Clock!

What moves you in the morning? The sounds of your kids running around the house and the urgent need to make sure that calamity is restored? The sound of a cat meowing into your left eardrum because...

This Massive 1964 Ford F900 Twin Boom Wrecker Is Retro-Perfection And Ready For Fun

There’s a bunch of Facebook groups out there that concentrate in big old trucks. The people in those groups are awesome because they have the addiction to these things even worse than I do and...

Reach For The Sky! This Mazda RX-3 Goes Mostly Straight Up At The Sydney Jamboree!

When you hear the words “three wheel motion”, it should make you think of a classic lowrider…Dayton 100-spokes, beautiful paint, driving with a wheel in the air. We’re pretty...