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I’ll Give Ya A Dollar: Aussie Politician Offers To Buy Back Holden From GM For A Buck!

General Motors has made it clear that they want the Holden name shuttered by 2021. They have even seemed to have gone out of their way to eliminate the name out of existence. While there’s a...

The Sound And The Fury: Watching This Incredible Ferrari 312P Attack Goodwood Is A Speaker Melting Joyous Occasion

Good cars have some history. Good cars have raced, maybe won. Great cars have won a lot and they have done so on grand and historic stages. Brilliant cars? Shoot, lots of them have not so much as won...

With Authority: 1977 Ford LTD II With 460 And That Police-Spec Look

It’s very easy to see how Ford was losing market share in the later 1970s…everything looked like the Lincoln Continental! In the rush to chase the sales success of the Chevrolet Monte...

So You’re Craving Nitro, Right? Here Comes The National Day Of Nitro!

  So many of us crave the drag strip while much of the country is still on lockdown. There is a glimmer of hope with Arizona, Mississippi, Idaho, Florida and recently Washington State easing...

Insult To Injury: Watch This Street Racer Suffer A Manifold Explosion, A Fire, and Then A Visit From Johnny Law

There are bad days and then there are BAAAAD DAYS. The guy in the silver late model GTO suffers the latter in this video that was shot at some undisclosed street racing spot in Anywhere, USA. The...

Video – Unimogs, Cosworth, and Classic Chevys: This Collection Of Stuff Has A Little Something For Everyone

If you have not watched “Barn Find Hunter” on the Hagerty YouTube channel, you are missing out. The show is cool because it’s not just a string of amazing and wildly valuable cars...

Land Speed Controversy Video: A Cool Look At The Infamous Budweiser Rocket Car And It’s “Supersonic” 1979 Run

There have always been certain controversies in land speed racing over the years. Many of the early ones have been covered in our awesome Salt Beds of Salduro series, but none of them have ever...

Dwarf Adder: This 1978 Mustang Cobra II Is Small But Threatening

In total, there were three graphic setups for the Mustang II Cobra. The first one can simply be called the “Farrah”…the word “Cobra” runs long the low flank in one...

Skills and Danger: This Video Captures Hard Working Logging Truck Operators From Around The World – Wild Stuff!

If there is a job that we find totally awesome and yet completely terrifying at the same time, it is that of the logging truck driver. It does not matter what country you are in, what continent you...

Bird Bomb: James Wisdom’s Thunderbird Grenades At Bonne Terre

You hate to see it, don’t you? Nice car, sounds beefy, ready to take a rip down the strip, and just when the gettin’ is gettin’ good, there’s one loud report and shrapnel is...

Money No Object: 1969 Mercury Cyclone GT – Plain Vanilla, Please

Poor Mercury…always building slightly plusher Fords, never really getting much credit for it. Outside of the Cougar, which was different enough from the Mustang in it’s first couple of...

The Hyundai Trucklet Is Coming: Here’s The Goods On The Upcoming Hyundai Santa Cruz – We Don’t Hate It!

(By Tom Lohnes) – The crossover-based truck segment has not taken off. With the only contender being the Honda Ridgeline, possibly the most hated vehicle on the market, it’s hard to see why...

Playing With Jaws: Cleetus Gives The Jaws of Life A Testing

You’re hanging upside-down in your car, suspended by the belts. You’re head is fuzzy…did you hit something during the rollover or are you just needing to get your bearings back...