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The Bikes Of Bonneville: Nothing But Motorcycles From Bonneville Speed Week 2019

There are a ton of different cars, trucks, lakesters, streamliners and roadsters at Bonneville for Speed Week each year. We’re talking about variety like you have never seen. But two and three...

Vintage Ad Watch: This Compilation Of Five 1985 Ford Truck Ads Rules But Bronco IIs Stil Suck

If there were certain constants in the 1980s, one of them was the fact that when an advertisement for pickup trucks came on TV, you were going to see some thrashing, some abuse, and some fun being...

The Leader Of The New World: Brian Wolfe’s 1986 Ford Mustang GT

This red 1986 Ford Mustang GT isn’t Genesis, but it is an instrumental car that led the charge into the 5.0L Fox Mustang performance era. While many were focused on 1987-and-newer machines,...

Under The Radar: Mitsubishi’s Forgotten AWD Turbo Terror, The Galant VR-4!

There is no doubt that the 1990s was Mitsubishi’s time to shine. After coming off of the 1980s, the Starion, and the successes of the Pajero in racing, they had the DSM cars that were co-built...

Motocross For Four Wheels: The Nitro World Games Rallycross Course!

Travis Pastrana has made a name for himself over the years. If it’s beyond mental and borderline deadly, he’s probably tried it. Motocross? He was on that before he was out of high school...

Morning Symphony: Porsche 904 Carrera GTS – Germany’s Best Italian Car

Porsche? At first glance, you wouldn’t think so. It’s shape fits the 1964-65 time period correctly, but not as a Porsche. Maybe an Alpine A110 with some work done, with it’s low,...

Classic YouTube: The Burndown Battle Of The Rotaries!

Some guys play checkers, others play chess. For some, the moves are simple: burnout, stage one, stage two, and go when your right foot and brain are in sync with the bulbs on the Christmas tree. Nail...

This Is An Amazing Compilation Video Of People Crashing Their Cars On The Nurburgring In 1970

This is a pretty amazing video. It was shot in 1970 at the Adenauer Forest section of Germany’s famed Nurburgring and it features a non-stop reel of amateur drivers wrecking their vintage junk...

Riding Up Pikes Peak on the Roll Bar of a Screaming Chevy Equipped Cobra Will Make You Want To Carve Corners Today!

Randy Schranz of Colorado Springs, Colorado won the Open class at Pikes Peak in 2012 with a propane fueled, Chevy small block powered, Cobra and in the process recorded his 37th finish up Pikes Peak....

Rough Start: 1967 Ford Thunderbird – Personal Luxury, Before Brougham

I can still picture it now: brown, flat tire, shattered glass bits on the carpet, with no hope of ever running again. But it was overall complete and nobody was there to tell me why it wasn’t a...

Ride On The Nose Of A Worked Up Peterbilt Truck At The Wild Canadian Big Rig Drags In Quebec

Since I missed another awesome rendition of the big rig street races up in Quebec, Canada last year and this year is looking bad, I have been trolling through video of the event watching all of the...

Grape Warhead: Mazda MX-3 With Dual Engines Because…Eh, Why The Hell Not!

Front-wheel-drive is wrong-wheel-drive. We know this. We have them, and outside of daily-driver status, we aren’t on board. And I speak about that from a performance perspective…you can...

Watch Rich Tuthill Take This Paul Smith Designed Porsche 911 His Company Built On A Sideways Trip Up Goodwood

I know I am a freak for Goodwood but I honestly believe that it is on the level with the great automotive events in the world. From LeMans to Daytona, to Indy, to Monaco, Bonneville, the US Nationals...

Abe’s Babe: Listen To This Group A Mustang Flex It’s Muscles!

We can’t say for certain, but we’re pretty sure that a Fox-body Mustang in New Zealand is like watching a Ferrari drive through downtown Des Moines, Iowa on a Tuesday...