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Morning Symphony: Climbing The Moffat Route With A Freight Train

I don’t care who you are, what age you are, what you are into or anything else…if you don’t get excited when you get to be anywhere even close to trains, have your head checked....

Get The Record Back: Official Guinness Book Of World Records Burnout Attempt Coming To Mid South Dragway June 10 – BE THERE

There are some things that just need to happen and getting the Guinness record for most simultaneous burnouts back on American shores is one of them. We were pointed to this news by Bret Kepner and...

Stripped And Ripped: This Mitsubishi Mirage Is An AWD Terror!

Remember the Mitsubishi Mirage from the early 1990s? Sold as the Dodge/Plymouth/Mitsubishi Colt pretty much everywhere else in the world and rooted as the first form of the Mitsubishi Lancer...

This 1968 AMC Javelin Racing Promotional Video Celebrates Underdog Success At A Long Dead Road Course

AMC was always the underdog. No matter what the company was doing, they were always the small fish in the massive pond and that’s why their successes were even more sweet. The factory Trans-Am...

Step Head-First Into Racing With This Back-Halved 1969 Chevrolet Chevelle!

Putting together your first race car is going to be one very solid shock to your wallet, before the first bolt is turned, before the first pass is ever made. Starting from scratch does provide you...

Yeah, He Clenched: Kyle From 1320Video Hops Into Two Psychotic Skylines!

What does it take to leave Kyle from 1320Video so impressed (or scared) that half of his remaining vocabulary after a ride along involves expletives? Remember, folks, this is a dude who got to where...

West Coast Cruizin’ Nationals – More Awesome Customs, Cruisers, Hot Rods & Lead Sleds In Santa Maria!

(Photos by Darr Hawthorne) – For nearly forty years, West Coast Customs Cruizin’ Nationals holds a show at Santa Maria Fairpark on California’s Central Coast. Farming, hot rodding, customizing...

Super Dave Adkins Vaporizes LS Record With His Twin Turbo Camaro – 3.87 In The Eighth!

It seems funny to talk about performance records being reset with LS platform engines but the reality is that while the  “junkyard race motors” dominate the internet and social media,...

Friday’s Reason To Go Home And Drink: The End Of The Dodge Challenger SRT Demon

The serious legends of power from the 1960s and 1970s were lauded for being monstrous. Torque on demand. Horsepower for days. Enough tire-melting good times that even today big money trades over...

Southeast Gassers At Peidmont: Action Photos From A Killer Drag Race! Vintage Gassers Rule

(Photos by David Whealon) – When you put the right cars in the right place, you get magic and that is exactly what the famed Southeast Gassers organization found when they pulled into the...