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Cool Build Video: How To Turn A 1984 Peterbilt 359 Into A Rat Rod – Large Scale Hot Rodding!

While certainly not to the level of a “trend” or “movement” yet, we’re seeing more and more tired old big rigs turned into hot rods or rat rod type creations. Some of...

Camaros, Mustangs, And Sports Cars Oh My: Optima’s Search For The Ultimate Street Car Photos

The USCA Optima Search for the Ultimate Street Car Series is getting toward the end of the season, all in preparation for the Ultimate Street Car Invitational in Las Vegas just after the SEMA show....

KC’s Paint Shop Says Farewell To Frankenstein: The Tire Smoking Shop Truck Is Gone

Yep, KC says this sucker doesn’t stop like he wants, doesn’t sit as low as he wants, doesn’t do almost anything as well as he wants and it doesn’t look nice enough to...

Video Highlights From The I29 Dragway Big Tire No Prep Race

Urban Hillbilly Videos always put together cool stuff, and here is a great highlight video from the i29 Dragway Big Tire No Prep Race they just had. There are some interesting, and bad ass, looking...

Join Us In Giving Thanks For More LSFest 2017 Photo Coverage From Bowling Green

It’s Sunday ladies and gentleman, and that means all across the land folks are singing the praises in houses of worship. It also means that at racetrack’s across the land horsepower...

Oh, The Rolls Royce Burnouts Are Cute – This Video Of A Nitro Funny Car At Goodwood Beats All!

There have been some notable drag machines that have taken on the Goodwood hill over the years but none of them did what Jason Phelps did. Phelps took his Gladiator Ford Mustang nitro burner and laid...

Pulling Action Gallery: KTPA Tractors and Competitors From The Scott County Kentucky Fair

(Words and photos by Doug Gregory) – Threatening skies once again for pulling events at the Scott County Park, but the event staff managed to hook nearly every competitor before the rains put...

This Video Of Mildly Botched Aircraft Carrier Landings From 1944 Is Awesome – Everyone Is OK!

To me, landing an airplane on an aircraft carrier is one of the most impressive feats a human being can perform. Hell, landing a plane on solid ground is one of them as well but when you add in the...

Watch This AWD Buggy Get Ripped Through The Gears At Full Throttle Multiple Times

This is definitely one of the more interesting chassis dyno stories we have ever run for the simple fact that we rarely get to see a vehicle get jammed through the gears on the chassis dyno in both...

Project Malibuuhoo: The International Drag Week Malibu Ate The Engine – UPDATE: IT LIVES AGAIN!

Project Malibuuhoo, the Chevrolet Malibu that Christian Damgaard, Andy Warren, Ben Snodgrass, and Steve and Jacob Weigl have been thrashing on for Drag Week 2017, looked to be ready for tuning. The...

Edelbrock Enforcer Crates Engines – 500+ Horsepower, 500 + LB/FT With A Warranty!

Yes, the Enforcer engines are available with carbs or EFI, are topped with an Edelbrock E-Force Enforcer blower, and make north of 500 hp and north of 500 lb/ft when dyno tested. Oh yeah, they also...

Our LSFest 2017 Saturday Coverage Continues Right Here, Right Now

Don’t worry, there is plenty more to cover at Holley’s LSFest 2017 in Bowling Green Kentucky and we’re all over bringing you as much of it as is humanly possible. We have already...

Good Morning LSFest! It’s Saturday In Bowling Green And We’ve Got Photos To Share!

In this gallery we’ve got photos from the autocross and the dragstrip at LSFest 2017, including the Rolls Royce we are so fond of. We’ll have more coming later today as well, but this...

Back And Badder Than Ever: TVR Has Returned With The Griffith, And It’s Cosworth-Tuned Coyote

TVR hasn’t had a good history in the last decade or so. In the 1990s under Peter Wheeler’s ownership, TVR had become famous for absolutely mental low-production vehicles that screamed and...