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Flight Of The Shadow: Jim Pace Suffers Incredible Crash At Wheel Of Shadow DN4 At Road America – Walks Away

We have shown you many videos over the years with Jim Pace at the wheel of any number of killer historic racing machines. Pace kind of became our “house driver” when it came to showing...

Dare To Be Different: This 1961 Chevrolet Corvair Rampside Pro Street Truck Is Awesome

Different can be cool, different can be weird, and sometimes different can be wrong. In the case of the 1961 Chevrolet Corvair Rampside pro street truck, different is radical! We’re kind of...

New Hypercar On The Block: The Murray T.50 Is An Active Aero Equipped, V12 Powered Beast

(By Tom Lohnes) – Famed Mclaren F1 designer Gordon Murray has decided to make his own supercar. This one however, might be the most mental one we’ve seen. The new Murray T.50 is insane....

Shock and Awe: How A Borrowed Yenko Camaro Became A Record Run At The Firecracker Mile

Borrowing the car…if that isn’t a phrase that will make a gearhead nervous, I don’t know what one is. We tend to view our four-wheeled contraptions as an extension of ourselves, our wards, the...

This WWII Video That Shows B-29 Bomber Crewman Inspecting Their Badly Damaged Plane After Returning To Base Is Amazing

I was cruising the Critical Past YouTube channel recently because it is chock full of amazing footage from the last 100 years of American history, particularly WWII. The video I found that really...

Czechmate: Jay Leno Shows Off His 1938 Tatra T87

If you go to the Lane Motor Museum in Nashville, you will find one of, if not the largest cache of Tatra automobiles in the United States. Name it, they’ve got it: a T-815 rollback truck, a...

Historical Footage: 1983 NHRA World Finals At OCIR Courtesy Of Diamond P!

What better way to kick your week off than with the voices of Dave McClelland and Steve Evans announcing some excellent drag racing action for you? Let’s go back to 1983, the year that the Ford...

TRAR Heaven: Odd Off Roaders At The First Deathwish Mud Buggy Adventure

Oh, lord…thank you, Josh Mazerolle, for giving us an idea that we didn’t know we needed to entertain. Look at the lineup…a Dodge Charger, a Volvo wagon, several Panther-bodied cars,...

Show Some Class: 1970 Buick Skylark GS 455 In Black

For 1970, GM had an A-body road burner for whatever your personality type happened to be. Straight-up, no frills and ready to kick ass? LS6 454 Chevelle. As wild and flashy as you wanted to be? GTO...

New Project Alert! Motion Raceworks Kick Off The Drag Week/Rocky Mountain Race Week Extreme Blazer Project!

Before too long everyone at Motion Raceworks is going to have a car ready to run on Rocky Mountain Race Week and Drag Week! They’ve been getting Novas and GTOs ready and now it’s time for...

Moonbeam: This 1965 Ford Ranchero Straight-Up Gets It!

Action might be a little thin on the ground once again, but the Southeast Gassers Association have had no issue getting around and making a bit of noise. Some of our favorite racing comes from this...

What Kind Of Crack Do You Have To Smoke To Think This 1967 Camaro Is Worth $5,500?

Sometimes I am truly dumbfounded by the pricing people put on cars. Having a finished and nice car that you think is worth $150,000 because you saw one go for that on one of those TV auctions, is...

Sure Is Pretty Out There: Gamblin’ Two Thrashed BMWs In Oregon

Two BMW E36s…one converted into a ute, the other a chopped-up open-roof car. The Gambler 500, the original version in Oregon. A bunch of friends bent on having a good time in the woods rallying...

This 1970 Cadillac Deville Convertible Will Get You All The Chicks!

Cadillacs rule. Period. Old, New, Caddys are just awesome as long as they weren’t built in most of the 1980s and 1990s. And they have always been the classy cruiser until the advent of modern...