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In-Buggy Video: Ride Along In The Pressure’s On Swamp Buggy As It Roars Around The Mile O’ Mud!

As the season of racing across American limbers up and gets great to start going great guns, we have been seeking out more and more cool in-car videos. In this case we got our hands on an in-buggy...

The Nicest 1973 Chevrolet Laguna in America is For Sale – This Thing Is Incredible

Our words, not the seller’s. The whole “nicest 1973 Chevrolet Laguna in America” part but we’re going to go ahead and challenge you to rebuke us on that claim once you check...

Money No Object: 1970 Chrysler 300H – The Last Real Banker’s Hot Rod, Courtesy Of Hurst

If you look at the musclecar era’s offerings relative to full-size cars, you can find that most of them offered up a little something that provided full-size space with the temperament of their...

The Way It Was: Watch The Green Elephant Funny Car Win The 1973 NHRA World Finals In Amarillo

To start, we should explain something that many people don’t really know or understand. Before 1970 there was no such thing as a funny car championship in NHRA drag racing. Then, between 1970...

Unhinged: Motorpool Daydreams Part Two – Putting The Big Trucks To Work

The last time I flashed back to what was in my head while roaming around the motorpool, we had a HMMWV absolutely killing the tires like I could only hope for. Every time I would hop into a HMMWV, I...

Flowmaster Rolls Out Three New Exhaust Systems For Silverado, F150, and Titan!

As manufacturers release new vehicles to the public, the aftermarket releases new products to make them even better. One of the biggest modifications that any hot rodder applies to a new vehicle,...

Swim For It: How Wrong Can Driving A Geo Tracker Underwater Go?

Ah, the Tracker. Sold as both the Chevrolet and the Geo Tracker, the Suzuki-built mini-SUV might have suffered an identity crisis when they were new…and most of them were that one color of teal...

Rare and Weird: These Former Marine M-677 Forward Control Kaiser Trucks Are Awesome Oddities

Don’t feel bad, we didn’t know that these things existed either! You are looking at two of the most weird and interesting trucks ever spec’d out and ordered by the US Military. By...

Rough Start, Kids Edition: Time To Teach The Kids About Kenny Bernstein’s Mercury LN7!

It’s easy to say that kids aren’t interested in cars, or that kids don’t care about cars. You know what else is easy? It’s easy to point out that dads working on the car at...

Great Read: How Dead Horse Hill In Worcester, Massachusetts Once Dominated National Racing Headlines

Today when we think about racing we immediately envision the vehicles competing in the modern palaces of speed that have been built to house the different forms of the sport. Well, 100+ years ago...

Coker Tire’s Chattanooga Cruise-In 2019: Our Last Blast Of Photos From The Southeast’s Sleeper Hit Car Show!

Sadly, we have come to the end of the line for our coverage of Coker Tire’s Chattanooga Cruise-In. This gallery is the last of the photos that were shot, and even though there is still plenty...

SAFE! Watch This No-Prep Racing Mustang Go Into A Top End Slide After Breaking The Tires Loose

No-prep style drag racing has brought an amazing number of young people into the sport and that’s a great thing. They are attracted by the unpredictable nature of the action, the cool cars, the...

Tech Video: What’s A COMP Camshaft Swap Worth In A Legit Boss 302? Find Out Here!

You CAN teach old engines new tricks, even the iconic ones. In this video, our pal Richard Holdener talks about waking up a Boss 302 engine, not a modern overhead camshaft version but the classic...