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Hot Or Not? Dyno Testing The New Gen III Edelbrock Hemi Head Against Factory Stockers

Loads and loads of people in the high performance aftermarket have long been looking at the Gen III hemi as the sleeping giant in the room. Yes, the LS and now LT engines have a massive share of the...

Holley Is Giving Away A Nitrous Snorting 427 Ford And YOU Can Win It Here –

Do you have a Ford project that is desperately seeking an engine? Do you want it to be powered by a small block that thinks and acts like a big block? No you want nitrous as a larger part of your...

Bigger, Badder, More: Chevrolet Rumored To Be Counterpunching New Ford Excursion With Their Own Monster SUV

(By Tom Lohnes) – Nowadays, people drive giant cars. And by giant, I mean gargantuan. The average full-size long wheelbase Chevy Suburban, just entered it’s 13th generation, and weighs 6,016...

Hot Rodding Is Fun Video: The Hagerty Straight Eight Buick Build Get Attention – More Fun Around The Shop

Hot rodding is fun because of so many reasons but the main one is the small personal challenges that every hot rodder deals with along the way. When you get your nifty speed parts and they...

The Birth Of A new Car: How Things Were Done In 1939 As War Loomed On The Horizon

This is a fascinating video for so many reasons. For starters we get an in-depth and inside look at the conception, engineering, and construction of a new car from the ground up circa 1939. We also...

Shuttling The Boss: This 1989 Look Back At Presidential Limos Is Cool

Long before there was “The Beast” there were some pretty stock factory luxury cars hauling the President of the United States around. Really until the 1963 assassination of John F...

Classic YouTube: Rod Millen And Nobuhiro Tajima Running Pikes Peak In 1996

If you are sitting at the starting line for your chance to tear up Pikes Peak, have no doubt in your mind that you are either exceptionally talented or exceptionally brave. Or both. Without question,...

Beyond Block: DC Shoes Presents Robbie Maddison’s “Pipe Dream” – Who Thinks Up Surfing With A Dirt Bike?

“Necessity is the mother of invention.” Snow begat skis. The internal combustion engine begat more efficient ways of handling tasks than by hitching up Mr. Ed, who may or may not be...

This Hayabusa-swapped Peugeot 106 Is A Little Go-Kart With An Attitude!

By and large, tiny little city cars tend to be depressing. They are useful, yes. And they can be necessary. But that doesn’t mean that they are loved. They are appliances first…they fit...

Classic YouTube: The 2015 Touring Car Masters Race At Winton – Trans-Am Meets Aussie V8 Supercar!

The first thing we thought of when we saw the footage of the Touring Car Masters race at Winton Motor Raceway in Australia is, “This is the kind of racing we’d watch on...

Watch This Guy Crash His Honda S2000 At A Weird Autocross And Then Get Really, Really Mad About It In The Car

The Honda S2000 is a mean little car. In stock form they have small naturally aspirated engines that are capable of making incredible power for their size at motorcycle levels of RPM. We’re not...

Watch a Swedish Drag Racer Stand a Monza Nearly Up on End During a Drag Pass

Drag racers in Europe are hard core because they have to be. As we understand the scene, there aren’t a lot (or any) tracks that run weekly test-n-tune sessions, grudge nights, or most of the...

Watch This Diesel Drag Truck Make A Hellacious Top End Charge And Catch His Opponent

As impressive as the massive power gains made by diesel truck enthusiasts have been, the era of the straight up dyno queen performance seems to be coming more and more of a close. The power is being...

BangShift Tune-Up: “The Zephyr Song” by Red Hot Chili Peppers (2002)

In a change versus the majority of the last ten years for me, I’ve spent the last couple months waking up just before the sun driving just as the first few beams of light go bright. When the...