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Here Comes The Boom: Blake Alexander Had The Biggest Explosion Of His Career Last Weekend In Norwalk

If you are a funny car driver, this situation is not an “if” it is a “when”. The situation we speak of is a massive engine explosion followed by the body of the car taking...

Show Coverage: ALS Cruising For A Cure 2019 – They Came From All Over The Country To Be A Part Of This!

(Words and photos by Doug Gregory) –The ALS Cruising for a Cure is held in Lawrenceburg, Indiana and this series will cover the 3rdannual event held May 5th.  This charity event is the...

2019 Hot Rod Power Tour Coverage: A BangShifter’s Tale Of Triumph In The Face Of Challenge

(Words and photos by Mike Brooks) – 2019 marked the 25th anniversary of the Hot Rod Power Tour. Last year I was finally able to check that off my bucket list with my C10 pickup. It was one of...

Drag Photo Gallery: Th 2019 Mid-Atlantic Nostalgia Nationals At Cecil County Dragway Were Awesome!

(Photos by Joe Grippo) – We’re back with one final installment of Joe Grippo photos from the 2019 Mid-Atlantic Nostalgia Nationals which were held recently at Cecil County Dragway in...

HELP: Watch As Calum Lockie Drives A Burning Daytona Coupe To The Fire Truck At The Donington Historic Festival!

Fire is a solid motivator for human activity. When we’re cold, we flock close to it to warm ourselves. When we need to make or destroy, fire plays a part. Fire helps us be the best that we can...

Rough Start: No More Minivan Blues With This Plymouth Voyager Pickup Conversion!

Being born in 1983, the minivan boom and bust is the first automotive styling trend that I’ve seen the beginnings to and the end of in my lifetime. When they appeared right about the same time...

Morning Symphony: Small-Blocks Screaming For A Full Pull On The Dirt

When you think of sled pulls, certain images come to mind: tractors blasting near-volcanic levels of soot and ash out of a smokestack as a diesel engine gets boosted to the moon, old Cummins-powered...

Mental Machine: This Used To Be A Little Kid’s Power Wheels Jeep…Now, It’s Unruly!

We’ve been following the work of the guys at Grind Hard Plumbing Co. for a little bit, ever since the first time we saw what used to be a Power Wheels Ford Mustang ripping powerslides and...

No Muscle, No Matter: This 1973 Ford Mustang Ragtop Does Just Fine Without Breathing Fire

We can re-hash the same old trope about how muscle was nearly dead by 1973, or how the Ford Mustang had become an overweight draft horse form of it’s former self, or how Lee Iacocca was ranting...

Morning Symphony: Have A Listen To A Buick Stage II Turbo Six On The Dyno!

The Buick GNX was not the end-all, be all of the Buick V6 program. It was certainly a hot piece, one that would have it’s own legend, but as for Buick’s six, it was just the beginning of...

Project Bottle Rocket: Gears And Gas For The Lightweight Coronet Drag Car Project!

Work never ceases at Uncle Tony’s Garage. There’s lots going on…whether it’s detailing the Nashville Rash that Tony’s daily-driver Swinger received, taking care of the...

Thrown Back In Time: 1320Video Meets One Violent 1922 Ford Model T!

Just saying “Ford Model T” conjures up black-and-white images of old Tin Lizzies with wood-spoke wheels and tires only slightly wider than what you can buy on a mountain bike today...

Public Service Announcement: A Young Don Garlits Preaches On The Importance Of Proper Auto Maintenance

There have been public service announcements for all kinds of stuff over the years but we never knew that Big Daddy Don Garlits starred in any of them! In this video, which we suspect was funded by...

A Different View: This British Gaming YouTuber Bought Himself An Old Plymouth!

When I want to get away from writing about cars and I, for whatever reason, don’t want to be in the shop, I turn to video games. It’s not my only non-car hobby…I garden, and every...