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Guilty Pleasure: This 1972 Lincoln Continental Mark IV Will Cruise On As Long As The Gas Card Works!

As I continue my self-imposed Mopar exile, I have found myself hunting down some older dream cars of mine. Among the G-bodies, Camaros, Mavericks and even the odd AMC product, but you don’t...

This RWD-converted Mitsubishi Evo Is Awesome…And Is Giving Us Bad Ideas!

What, exactly, is special about a Mitsubishi Evo that can run a nine-second quarter? It’s no secret that Evos are fast cars, and that with a little bit of turbo wizardry that single-digit times...

Crash And Burn: An Entire Year’s Worth Of Dirt Bike Wrecks From Enduro KeX!

If you choose to hop onto a bike and go running through the woods, climbing up hills, and splashing through streams, sooner or later you will crash. It’s not a matter of if, it’s a matter...

Need A Driveshaft? Going Anywhere BUT Mark Williams Enterprises Is Wrong – Seven Types For All Needs!

Your driveshaft is one of the simplest looking parts under your car but it is one of the most scientifically complex and vitally important parts as well. There are right and wrong ways to do a...

Hydraulic Roller Or Solid Lifter…Which Cam Works Out Better? Engine Masters Flogs The Dyno To Get The Answer!

This is a fun comparison: which camshaft will perform better in a Chevrolet 454 that is wicked up to hang easily in the 600 horsepower range and provide the power you crave? On one hand, you have a...

Watch The Wild Conor Daly and Josef Newgarden Crash From IndyCar At Texas Motor Speedway

This is one of the gnarliest IndyCar wrecks in some time and amazingly Josef New Garden (who got the worst of it by a ton) was able to get out of his car under his own power. Yes, he suffered a...

Unknown Parts Counter Guy: Get In The Box, The Behavior Box!

Hooray, you got the job. You managed to sell yourself to a parts store manager as a knowledgeable, enthusiastic hard-worker with motivation and a desire to better yourself. We are pretty sure that...

This Jeepster Is The Perfect Combo Of Cool And Beat, And Will Take You Anywhere You Want To Go.

Jeepsters are awesome. As one of the first SUVs, they paved the way for some iconic rigs over the years. Of course they also paved the way for one of the most overused classifications of vehicles,...

This Peterbilt Pickup Truck Has A Caterpillar Engine, A Chopped Roof, and Super Singles

Normally I am very negative when it comes to “big rig” pickups because they are almost always a big rig cab that has been mounted on a pickup truck frame and they look weird. Conversely...

Hot-Lapping In The Heat: Check Out Our Gallery From Optima’s Search For The Ultimate Street Car 2016 at NCM Motorsports Park!

When Bowling Green, Kentucky, gets hot in the summer, it doesn’t just get hot…it’s that sticky, sweaty, funky kind of hot that makes you sweat in the shade as your sunscreen sweats...

Watch Dirt Racer Austin Williams Become The First Person To Launch A Race Car Out Of Perris Speedway!

It took 21 years but someone finally put a race car over the fence at Perris Speedway. The racer in question here is Austin Williams and thankfully he was OK after his car flipped and literally...

Would You Rather? Take Your Pick Between These Two Late 1980s Grand Touring Wannabes!

There is nothing finer than the road trip. Get in the car with just enough luggage to live comfortably for a few days at a time and enough music to enjoy yourself and go. There is even a type of car...

Add Cylinders And Go: Check Out This LS-Based V-12 Engine On The Dyno!

In 1966 the last General Motors-built twelve cylinder engine, the famous 702ci “Twin Six”. Based upon the GMC V6 family of engines, the Twin Six utilized a good amount of parts from the...

Morning Symphony: A Fine Collection Of Skids From Gazzanats – How Long Can You Keep The Rubber Burning?

Have you ever just wanted to stop everything that you were doing and just scream as loud as you possibly can, for as long as you possibly can, in the hopes that once you are done you will feel much...