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Historical Footage: The Infamous 1995 Dale/Barbazza Wreck At Road Atlanta

One of the most notable crashes that has ever taken place in IMSA racing was the incident at Road Atlanta involving Jeremy Dale and Fabrizio Barbazza during the Rain-X/Motorola Grand Prix of Atlanta...

Do You Want To Know What This Looks Like From In The Car? Formula Off Road Greatness

Formula Off Road is some of the most gnarly racing on the planet. In fact in some ways it’s the grandfather of the new Rockbouncing craze. These guys climb huge pea gravel piles, on courses set...

Historical Race Footage: NATCC At Lime Rock 1996-Touring Car Racing At It’s Best

Watching a few Hondas, Toyotas, Mercedes and a couple of Dodge Stratuses drive around might not initially sound like anything worth mentioning but take a look before judgement. This was the North...

Morning Symphony: A DZ302-Powered Chevrolet Firenza Can-Am Showing Off

Thought the 302ci small-block Chevy was a Camaro-only unit? Nope. See, in South Africa, touring car racing is very popular, and in the early 1970s, Chevrolet had a problem: the Ford Capri Perana....

Here’s How You Replace The Entire Floorpan In A First Gen Camaro. Watch This.

Rust, the nastiest four letter word in the hot rodders language. Ugh, fixing it is a pain in the ass. But, with the amazing availability of reproduction sheetmetal for all kinds of muscle cars,...

Unhinged: The Sunset Of Print Magazines

The starting point was a silver Hot Wheels C4 Corvette with the cream-colored interior tub and the red luggage case visible in the rear hatch. The ignition moment was when my uncle Benjamin and the...

It’s Cold Outside! Make A Wood Burning Stove From Car Wheels! Here’s How.

I live in Dallas now and can tell you that it is “colder” here during the winter than in Southern California, but not anywhere near cold like some of you folks get up north. If I lived up...

Classic YouTube: The NASCAR UPS Truck – Brembo Doesn’t Make Brakes Big Enough!

If I were to flip a coin between going to work as a service manager at a dealership or working as a delivery driver for UPS for the week, I’d simply start drinking. During the holiday season,...

Watch a Mi-26 Sling-load A Chinook Helicopter Like It’s A Toy

The Boeing CH-47 Chinook series of helicopters are big. The newest variant, the -47F, packs engines with 4,868 shaft horsepower and can cruise at 175mph with nine and a half tons of cargo aboard....

Anything Can Be A Racecar If You’re Brave Enough, Like This Chrysler Crossfire!

The Chrysler Crossfire…oh, lord, here we go. Where do you start, the Daimler-Chrysler merger, the fact that it’s a re-skinned Mercedes SLK that has one of the most unfortunate rear ends...

Please Shove An Engine Into This 1954 Nash And Make It Angry Again!

Every single time I see a car set up like this 1954 Nash Standard is, it’s at a dragstrip, it has a ton more power than what is even required for racing, and what will happen once the throttle...

Satellite Launch, Part 7: Enjoying The Fruits Of All Of That Labor

I’m genuinely jealous of Kevin and Luke’s summertime adventure. I was getting field updates as they worked. I was sent videos and pictures as things were going on. And with each video...

BangShift-Approved Tour Bus: The Foremost Terra Bus…Nothing Will Stop This Monster!

When Brian sent me a link saying that he found “the most BS approved vehicle manufacturer on Planet Earth” I will admit I had a moment of skepticism. BangShift has easily the widest...

Random Car Review: The Toyota 222D, A Stillborn Group B Rally Response From Toyota

We give lots of love to Group B rally cars here because they were, at the time, the pinnacle of engineering insanity, and because of homologation requirements, a certain amount of street-going...