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Rough Start: Longroof Fans, Here’s Your Chance! A 1967 Chevy Impala 396!

A couple of years ago, me and Lohnes got into a mud-throwing contest over longroofs. We went back and forth over them for a couple of weeks and dredged up everything from big-block, wood paneled...

El National? Caballero T-Type? Whatever You Call It, This Buick 3.8 Turbo-Swapped GMC Caballero Is All Of The Awesome!

As we all know, General Motors has a history for building a ton of cars for all of its various car lines on shared platforms. In fact, no one “badge engineers” cars and trucks as much as...

Ever Wonder How They Get Those Massive 10-foot Tall Tires On Bigfoot? It Ain’t Easy! Here’s A Time Lapse Video

I think everyone who loves monster trucks over the age of 30 can probably the remember the first time they saw Bigfoot 5 either in person on or TV. This is the truck that wears the insane 10-foot...

Takeoff Is Approved: 1/8th Mile Airport Runway Racing From Ballarat

If you go back into the early days of drag racing, you will find that World War II had a strong influence on the motorsport. Don’t just blankly stare the screen, it’s the truth: GIs who...

Look To The Sky: Free Life Films Shows Off The Wildest Rides Of 2018!

December is the start of many things: holiday music, wrapping paper hell, the time when your kids bring you lists of stuff that need to be decoded and checked to see what your budget will allow....

The Family Hot Rod: Petrolicious Tells The Story of A Spanish Racing Mini That Has A Legacy

People who don’t get cars or racing or competition or engineering or work tend to dismiss the rest of us and our obsession with the machines that we create, watch, operator, or observe....

IMSA WeatherTech Sports Car Coolness: Action Photos From Virginia International Raceway!

(Photos by David Whealon) – Whether it is tractor pulling, drag racing, monster truck racing, mud bogging, or high end IMSA WeatherTech sports car racing, David Whealon is the man with the...

A New Track For The Pacific Northwest? The Proposed “Circuit Of The Northwest” Is Beginning An Engineering And Design Study!

The southern end of Kitsap County, Washington is normally a fairly quiet locale. It’s filled with dense fir forests, fields of scotch broom, shalal and blackberry bushes, and there seem to be...

2018 Houston Autorama: More Texas Hot Rods, Muscle Cars, and Trucks – Check Out The Images

(Photos by Charles Wickam) – Yeah, that’s a crazy Gremlin race car. What’s it to ya?! The Houston Autorama is not just all about some sort of collection of big dollars show cars,...

Money No Object: 1995 Ford Mustang Cobra R With Sincere Racing Pedigree

The fun thing about getting older as a car freak is that you get to see whether or not your suspicions on which cars would be great and which cars won’t be was an accurate guess or the ultimate...

2018 Pumpkin Run Nationals Photos: Our River of Images Keeps Right On Flowing – Photos Here!

(Words and photos by Doug Gregory) – So this gallery and the next are made up of the movers of stuff.  These days most of these rarely carry more than a cooler and a chair or two, but I...

Classic YouTube: The 1978 Ford LTD II, Sold By Ron Burgundy Himself

In the beginning, there was Fairlane. Fairlane begat Torino, Torino begat Elite, and Elite begat LTD II. Ford’s midsizer packed on the pounds almost in time with Elvis himself as the 1970s...

The Other Racing Long Car: Check Out This 1980s Film Of Jim Jet Nelson’s Jet Limo At Great Lakes Dragaway

With McTaggart showing us all the way to have big time fun with a germ infested, cast aside, potential rolling meth lab in the form of his Cadillac limo, it triggered a memory about another racing...

This Compilation of 1990s Monster Truck Crashes Captures The Wildest Era Of Monster Truck Competition

The other day I posted a photo on my Instagram account (@BrianLohnes) of an old monster truck and one of the responses it got was a guy saying, “They actually raced these?” At first I was...