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Lonestar Round Up 2016: Photos From The Massive Texas Hot Rod Happening

(Photos by Charles Wickam) – It has become one of the premier hot rod destination shows in the world and year after year it just keeps getting better. We’re talking about the massive...

Incredible! Watch The Plymouth Air Radial Truck Make Its First Drive – Radial Airplane Engine Power!

The world of hot rodding never ceases to amaze us. New ideas emerge and are executed when even the most hopeful among us think that the human brain is mined out. Take for example this stunning...

She Left To Buy A Two-Seater Sporty Car, But Now This Ten-Second 2007 Dodge Charger Daytona Is A Little More Than That!

Owning a SubLime colored Mopar is one of the easiest ways to make sure people stop and look at your car, even at a Mopar show. At ChallengerFest, there were a quite a few bright green pieces rolling...

Muscle Mass: Big Horsepower And A Big Sticker Price – Does The 2016 Yukon Denali Deliver?

I’m always interested to see how the neighbors or my friends happen to react to a given test car or truck showing up at the BangShift eastern world offices. We have had some interesting stuff...

eBay Find: This 1972 Oldsmobile Cutlass Supreme Is A Cool Non-Muscle Cruiser!

The Oldsmobile Cutlass Supreme was the car of the 1970s as far as I’m concerned. It was a sales success, it was cleanly designed, and it was plush without being overstuffed with brougham-like...

Matt Farah Is Hawking Performance Enhancers? Check Out His Latest Ad For Eclipse!

Some days you just don’t feel up to the task. Some days you fall short. We all have those days every once in a while. We thought we were hot stuff until someone else just put us into our place,...

Rough Start: For Just A Few Bucks Over Budget, Could A Sleeper Toyota Celica Be The One For You?

The whole idea of a sleeper is to hide in plain sight with the giant hammer hidden behind your back. The problem with putting a Q-ship together is that you have to start with a car that few would...

This Quick-8 Footage From 1989 Shows What Pro Mod Looked Like Before It Was Called Pro Mod – Wild Runs At Shuffletown!

As history has worn on, fewer and fewer people understand the pretty incredible rise of the pro mod class to the echelon that it currently lives on today. The category was an outgrowth of the fast...

Did You Order One? Ford GT Application Stampede Was Yesterday – $400,000+ Super Car Frenzy

Yesterday was a big day for Ford fans out there as the application process for the all new Ford GT was opened up. Thousands of people from around the world applied to be among the lucky 500 that will...

Ford vs. Ferrari rivalry renews in Europe this weekend with WEC opener in the UK

Fifty years ago, Ford secured its first-ever win at the 24 Hours of Le Mans when the legendary GT40 Mk. II trounced the reigning teams from Ferrari, who had won the previous six Le Mans. In that 1966...

RacePak’s New Web Series Is All About Illustrating How Data Logging And Information Gathering Isn’t Black Magic!

One of the things that Tim Anderson and the guys from RacePak have been working hard on over the last year or more is educating people on their whole line of products because they really do make...

Lonestar Round Up Coverage: An Evening At Top Notch Burgers – The Coolest Place In Austin

(Photos by Charles Wickam) – If there’s a place we know Charles Wickam will be during the spring it is the Lonestar Round Up in Texas and more specifically at a place called Top Notch...

History Video: The Weekend The Drag Radial Record Was Mangled Four Times – 1320Video Crew Was There!

Unless the rock you live under is not equipped with the internet or any other form of electronic communication you probably know that one of the most historic weekends in small tire drag racing...

Physics Be Damned: Stage 6 Motorsports’ Eight-Second Jeep Grand Cherokee SRT-8…Meet “The Brick”!

Simply put, this Jeep Grand Cherokee SRT-8 should not be as fast as it is. It’s too heavy and has all of the aerodynamic properties of a barn falling to Earth after a tornado picked it up, but...