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Hennessey Has A 1,000 Horsepower Answer For the SRT Demon: Meet “The Exorcist”!

In a week, we will finally have the curtain pulled back on what little we still don’t know about the Dodge Challenger SRT Demon. There are two more teaser videos in between now and then, but...

Watch The Menace Camaro Get Into The Wall At Ozark Raceway Park – Out Of The Groove and Out Of Control!

As much as we love small tire and radial racing around here we also have not lost an ounce of happy feeling for the large tires cars out there in the drag racing world, either. When we firs saw...

Goodguys Del Mar Coverage: More Sweet California Iron To Check Out!

(Photos by Chad Reynolds) – Last weekend Chad was at a familiar place. He was pounding the microphone and stomping the grounds of the Goodguys 17th Meguiar’s Del Mar Nationals in Del Mar,...

Watch Mike Pelrine Make A Stunning Save On His Nitro Harley At The NHRA Denso Nationals In Las Vegas

One of the things that has really gotten people’s attention this season at NHRA national events has been the presence of nitro burning Harley-Davidson motorcycles. So far we have seen them at...

Leno Takes A Ride On The Bike Keanu Built, The Arch KRGT-1!

Yes, Keanu Reeves is involved with a motorcycle company. Arch Motorcycle Company is a startup bike business that he is partnered with Gard Hollinger with, and they make…well, motorcycles....

Weapon X: Follow Along As An Awesome Plan B Drag Week Build Takes Shape

(Words and photos by Robert Williams) –  (Editor’s note: This is the first in a series of build stories that will follow the construction of Weapon X, a 1977 Nova that will compete in...

Chattanooga Cruise-In At Coker Tire 2017: It’s Like A Cars And Coffee, But Better (And Less Likely To Kill You!)

Over the past weekend, I had the opportunity to take in a couple of events on Saturday morning. I could’ve gone to a Cars and Coffee event in the Nashville area, but I didn’t. I...

Event Coverage: The 55th And Final Carl Casper Car Show – Our First Gallery HERE

(Words and photos by Doug Gregory) – The Finale.  Swan Song.  Adios.  After 55 years of producing this show the legendary Carl Casper is calling it quits.  We have covered this show for a...

This 1977 Ford Thunderbird Stock Car Was Once A Decoration, But Now Needs To Be Made Wicked Again!

Just as we like to pick on each other’s vehicle crushes, we also like to work on each other’s vehicle hatreds. In the case of Lohnes and I, we are polar opposites: I generally like Ford...

Caption This: “When I See That Groundhog, I’m Gonna Run His Ass Over…”

(Photo: Phil de Soto) Springtime is here, and we couldn’t be happier. Tracks are open, races are running, shows are bringing in the crowds, and the open highway beckons the more nomadic among...

Morning Symphony: A Lincoln LSC Luxury Liner Tire Fire

The Lincoln Mark VII LSC is what happens when a car manufacturer remembers that luxury and performance do not have to be separate entities, yet remembers that real people with real dollars buy their...

Camshaft Tech! Engine Masters Explains The Ins and Outs Of What The Bumpstick Is All About

If you think that the guys who make Engine Masters have been slacking in the tech lessons and instead have been playing too much with dyno mule engines, then this episode is for you. Behold, the...

Watch A Truck Driver Pull Away From A Traffic Stop And Directly Into The Path Of An Oncoming Train! (everyone ok)

(By Greg Rourke) – Ever have one of those days when you just should have stayed home? Here we have a Minnesota trucker who should’a called in sick and gone ice fishing. We open with dash...

Want Your Own Family Truckster For Summer Cruising? Then Check Out This 1975 Ford Country Squire!

Station wagons and road trips to who-knows-where-this-time, a wonderful combination. Or, at least, that’s what I keep getting told by people at least ten years older than I am when the subject...