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Classic YouTube: Flight Trials Of The RAH-66 Comanche, The Wonder Helicopter That Never Got A Chance

The RAH-66 Comanche helicopter was the first thing I remember being completely excited about once I joined the Army. I grew up with the Airwolf theme music playing often in my house (my father loved...

Money No Object: This Clean 1989 Dodge Ram D350 Cummins Is A Dream Truck

Shoving a diesel engine into a pickup truck and putting it onto the market wasn’t anything new in 1989. Both Ford and GM were selling diesel units, and Chrysler had even done it themselves in...

Here’s What It Looks Like When A Ford Thunderbolt Spins At 200mph On The Salt

Speed Week 2o17 is only a short while off now, so we’re getting into salt mode around here. One of the most fascinating things I have ever seen is watching a car spin at Bonneville. I had never...

BangShift Question Of The Day: How Long Do You Give The Internal Combustion Engine To Live?

First it was just France, but recently the United Kingdom has come out and agreed that the internal combustion engine, the heartbeat for just about every vehicle on the road today, has an expiration...

The Ack Attack Streamliner Is Going To Bolivia To Try And Go More Than 400 mph!

Bonneville is coming up in less than a month, and while the normal buzz surrounding the salt is starting to bubble, there is a lot of talk about Bolivia. Salar de Uyuni, Bolivia to be exact, where...

Car Craft Summer Nationals 2017: Racing Under The Lights In Kentucky At The Midnight Drags!

After long days filled with free runs on the track, cars filling the show circuit, and shirts filling with sweat, the event that everybody seemed ready to watch go down at the 2017 Car Craft Summer...

This Flying Car From Italy In 1949 Killed Less People Than The Flying Pinto And Looked Cooler (Video)

People have been obsessed with the idea of a flying car for a long, long time. We found this old newsreel video that was shot in Italy (with English narration) back in the late 1940s and frankly...

Meltdown Drags 2017 Photo Coverage: More Wheels Up, Old School, Tire Frying Fun!

(Photos by Greg Rourke and Bob Chiluk) – The photo hits just keep on coming from the 2017 Meltdown Drags. Bob Chiluk and Greg Rourke absolutely crushed it and we’re still seeing the...

ALS Cruise In For A Cure – More Photos Of The Cars, Trucks, and Race Machines That Gathered For A Great Cause

(Words and photos by Doug Gregory) – This show took place May 7, 2017 in Greendale, IN which is nearly indistinguishable from Lawrenceburg as you drive down the road.  This area is teaming...

Edelbrock’s New Gen III Hemi Heads Are Here! Late Model Mopar Performance Fans Will Be Stoked

Here’s some massively good news for fans of late model Mopar performance. Edelbrock’s new Gen III Hemi Heads are here! The company has been working on this design for a while and its...

Wreckage Video: A Drifting Fail Leads to the Violent End of a BMW’s Drivetrain!

Every gearhead in the world with a rear wheel drive car think that they have mad drifting skills. This video is some proof that not all wheel men are created equal and that some race tracks can wreck...

This 1935 Chevrolet Film Safe Roads Features Loads Of Cool Cars AND Locomotives!

This is one awesome video. Featuring cool cars and a LOAD of cool locomotives it is basically a driver’s ed film before such a thing really existed. There’s an old timer who was a train...

Little Cars and Wild Rides – Two Rough Tumbles From The Rumble In Ft. Wayne

We’re forgetting who said it at the moment but there was once a reference made about racing at Bristol that equated the experience to attempting the flight of a fighter jet inside a living...

This 1970 C20 Chevrolet Is Probably One Of The Nicest Work Body Trucks Around

There is something about a work body that is just cool. Okay maybe not when you are 20, but when you get to be my age there is something about utilitarian stuff that just gets us excited. This would...