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Morning Symphony: Hill Climb Close Range Fly-by Footage Courtesy Of The Hardest-Working HDD Cam Out There!

You know those awesome, close-up fly-by racing shots that make television shows like TopGear and racing footage look amazing? You like seeing a car bearing down on you on video just before it rips...

What’s Old Is New Again… Is Late 80’s-Early 90’s Pro Street Back In Style?

Nostalgia. That word can mean a lot of different things to different people, but typically, popular culture seems to place things that occurred around 20-25 years ago in the “sweet spot”...

Top 11: Shopping At Mecum’s Portland Auction – Two Days Of Difficult Decisions!

Portland, Oregon isn’t exactly automotive Mecca, but it isn’t the desert, either. There is plenty of gorgeous iron hiding among the redwoods and Douglas Firs, and if you cross the...

Rally Azores might be the world’s most picturesque racing venue

The FIA’s European Rally Championship treks to the Azores this weekend for the Azores Airlines Rally. The Azores are a Portuguese-owned island chain in the Atlantic Ocean that is renowned as a...

The Tech Behind MAHLE’s Gold Series Piston Coating – Here’s How It Works, How It Helps

One of the things that hot rodders of generations past could likely never conceive of is the amount of technology involved in the creation of modern pistons. With the ever advancing science and...

Take Our Money! This Grand National Swapped 1985 El Camino Is 1980s Perfection

If at some point today you look out a window and see what looks to be a red mushroom cloud off in the distance, that would be Dave Nutting’s head literally exploding off of his shoulders. This...

A Legend Crushes His Way Into The Sunset – Bigfoot Hero Jim Kramer Is Retiring

Growing up I rooted for the Boston Red Sox, I rooted for Bruce Allen, and I rooted for Jim Kramer. Kramer of course is the iconic driver of Bigfoot monster trucks and it has been announced the...

Question Of The Day: What’s The Best Bit Of Questionable Engineering You’ve Ever Seen?

(Lead Photo: Reddit/Just Rolled Into The Shop) Billions of dollars and more man-hours than we dare dream of go into the design portion of a vehicle platform. It used to be simple: engine goes here,...

Own It, Drive It, Love It: This 1990s Built Pro Street 1965 Chevelle Is On The Comeback Trail To Coolness!

For starters, this is a nice car. Let’s get that out of the way right now. You may hate the colors, you may hate the look, but when you look at how this thing was built you cannot say that it...

When The Mega Trucks Run Freestyle In Florida, Anything Goes…Flight Included!

We have to wonder: where is the line between a mega truck and a monster truck? Because from what we’ve been seeing from the South, the only two differences are tire sizes and a noticeable lack...

The Top Ten Scariest Wrecks Urban Hillbilly Has Ever Witnessed – This Is Completely Mental

Now THIS is completely mental. The video you will see below is a compilation of 10 crashes that Sean Melton at Urban Hillbilly Action Videos has decided are the scariest he has ever witnessed. That...

Pulling Coverage Insanity: The 3rd Annual Mule City 300 At Galot Motorsports Park

(Words and photos by David Whealon) – Holy Smokes!! When Galot Motorsports Park announced that they had 10 Grand National classes on the card for the 3rd Annual “Mule City 300” NTPA...

Petrolicious Shows Off The Prototype 1957 Aston Martin DB Mark III In It’s Unrestored Glory

Prototype vehicles usually have short, bright life: they come out to much fanfare, are worked over by testers, engineers and stylists until everything is just right for production…and then,...

Nostalgia Nationals At US-60 Dragway – Cool Cars and Great Action From The Strip

(Words and photos by Doug Gregory) – Finally some ACTION.  This particular gallery isn’t the most-diverse I’ve ever put together.  In fact, you could claim it’s from the Nova Nationals...