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Wake The Neighbors: The Blower Whine From This 1970 Chevrolet Camaro Is Glorious!

During my teenage years in Colorado Springs (around the year 2000), I lived in a neighborhood filled with old people. Like, I’m seventeen, they’re mainly in their seventies kind of...

In Memoriam: Peter Fonda – The Easy Rider And The Aspiring Driver Has Left The Building

Peter Fonda’s career in Hollywood stretches back to 1962 and includes westerns and the like, but for the majority of readers who visit here, two characters stand out above the rest: Wyatt from...

More Bonneville Speed Week Photos From The Salt! Check Out What All We Found!

Here we go again. We told you we’d have more photos coming and we weren’t kidding. In fact, we have even more coming as we’ll be bombarding you with them throughout the week from this...

Snowmobile-Powered Triumph: Mating The Engine To The Car And Maybe A Test Drive

Honestly, we weren’t expecting you to take to this project as well as you did! It sounded like pure heresy: take a Triumph Spitfire, gut the original running gear out of it, and re-power the...

The Mongrel Project Goes For Paint! Will It Be Too Pretty To Race? We Sure Hope Not!

We love the Mongrel Project from Urchfab around here and have been going through a bit of withdrawals lately as the car has gotten minor tweaks while waiting to be ready for paint and body work. The...

Your Timeslip, 007: Take An In-Depth Look At That Street-Legal Aston Martin Drag Car!

Besides being the sports car of the well-heeled, the grandest of grand touring machines available today, and one super-Brit’s marque of choice, Aston Martin is known for luxury. Their cars will...

UMI Autocross Shootout 2019 Action Photos, Results, And More!

Words by Tim KingThis past weekend we were out at the UMI Autocross Challenge 2019 hosted by UMI Performance. This is the second year we were able to attend and one event we don’t want to miss!...

Prize Thoroughbred: The Bullitt Mustang Is Going To Be Auctioned Off By Mecum

At the beginning of 2019, the lone 1967 Shelby GT500 Super Snake became the world’s most expensive Ford Mustang, hammering at $2.2 million dollars at Mecum Auction’s Kissimmee 2019...

Jeff Arend, Mendy Fry, Dan Hix & Jeremy Hanger Take Nightfire Nationals Titles!

(Photos by Kim Fowler, Sandra Alberti and Darr Hawthorne) – The 48thPepsi Nightfire Nationals, held at Firebird Raceway, has an incredible history, but the New family, track owners don’t rest...

Vicious Dyno Action: Watch A PDRA Pro Boost Engine Get Pulled Over 8,000 RPM – Hellacious!

The PDRA Pro Boost category is not the place for cowards or sissies and this video proves that because we get to see a blown alcohol burning hemi get ripped at Rage Fuel Systems on their inertia...

Watch A Couple Of Goofy Kids Destroy A Subaru Engine With Nitrous And Nearly Kill Themselves In The Process

You know the old saw, “it is all fun and games until someone loses an eye,” right? This video is a living and breathing example of that adage but thankfully everyone’s ocular health...

Build Battle Two! Hoonigan Kicks Up A Drag Racer Battle Between An S-10 And An RX-7!

The Hoonigans are doing their second Build & Battle event! This time around, the discipline is drag racing, and this time around the vehicles aren’t near-identical options! Last time it was...

1,200hp Naturally Aspirated Pontiac Horsepower Dyno Power – McCarty Racing Ram Air V Headed Monster

If you’re a fan of Pontiacs, you need to stop, sit down, take a deep breath or two and then watch this video…400 times. You are going to see a Pontiac engine, built by the McCarty Racing...

Rub Some Dirt On It: Tractor Pull Carnage Compilation For The Win!

When you test the ability of your equipment at it’s maximum performance perimeters, you will find that when things go wrong, they go extremely wrong. There is no such thing as a minor...