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This Awesome Video From The 1972 NHRA SuperNationals Highlights The Sport’s First 5 and Jim Dunn’s Rear Engine FC Win!

This is one of the neatest old drag racing films we have ever seen and it was shot by a fan on an 8mm video recorder at the 1972 NHRA SuperNationals which was an event that featured professional...

This 1966 Pikes Peak Video Focuses on Ak Miller and Bobby Unser Flying In The Dirt

Now THIS is amazing. You are going to watch this 1966 Pikes Peak video that features legendary racers Ak Miller and Bobby Unser hauling ass up the mountain. Of course back then the entire course was...

Video: Watch 1985’s Battle Of The Monster Trucks In Its Entirety! One Of The Best 80’s Monster Truck Videos Ever

I’m going to come right out and admit to still owning and occasionally popping the VHS copy of this video into our now decrepit VCR here at home. It is one of the coolest looks back a the...

Is This The Best Car Corral In The World? The Iron Trap Garage Crew Says YES!!! – 2024 Fall Hershey AACA Swap Meet

The AACA Swap Meets at Hershey are nuts. I’ve never been, but want to, and every time someone sends us video or photos from this place we about lose our minds. On multiple occasions, our friend...

I Love Mavericks, And Sleeper Dude Is Saving This Bitchin Grabber From The Forest, Where It Has Been Sitting For 30 Years!

One often questions one’s decisions when one is the kind of person to drag a car out of a stand of trees and then attempt to bring it back to life. One questions these decisions when a full...

40 Years Of Sport Trucks: Behind The Scenes With Belltech. The People, And Company, That Changed The Truck Scene Forever.

California has been in the middle of the car scene since anyone knew there was a scene. We all know that SoCal in particular has a particular infatuation with automobiles, and the car culture there...

THIS IS THE GREATEST MILITARY JUNKYARD EVER, and an Arizona Americana Road Trip With David Freiburger!

Freiburger is back at it, this time on a road trip that features some super cool Americana in Arizona and also one hell of a bad ass wrecking yard. I’ve never heard of this place, but after...

Love It Or Hate It? This Ford 289 Has 180-Degree Headers and Sounds…Different

When we saw the video below of a little 289 Ford V8 built to FIA vintage racing specs, we figured hearing the Ford small block sing to 7,500 RPM would be a fun exercise in mechanical music. We got a...

Watch Zora Arkus-Duntov Rip A Disguised 1956 Chevy Up Pikes Peak – Bill France Timed The Run Himself!

There are certain things that we really, really love around here and this video captures just about all of them. For starters we have great footage with classic narration. Then we have history being...

Muscle Bike Video: Check Out A Restored, Turbocharged 1974 Kawasaki Z1 Motorcycle!

It is not an uncommon thing to see old cars and motorcycle restored, right? Happens every day. Even the rare machines that history seems to have lost can be brought back to their gleaming, original...

Horsepower or Horse Powered: Who Wins A The Pull? A Team Of 16 Belgian Draft Horses Or A Tractor?

Tractors were developed to be mechanical horses. Ok, they were developed to be better than the horses that they replaced. While the mighty draft horse was a good right hand man for farmers spanning...

FREE LIVE Big Money Bracket Racing: The Great American USA $500K From Montgomery International Dragway – $40,000 Saturday

It’s $40,000 Saturday! Here’s another crazy money bracket race that is going to change someone’s life this weekend. But before the big money race on Friday, which pays $500,000 and is limited...

Free Live Drag Racing: All-Trucks, No Prep At King Of The Streets Challenge! Bad Beasts Taking On The Strip At US13 Dragway – Saturday

The King of the Street Challenge is on this weekend, featuring trucks of all shapes and sizes battling it out pulling sleds, drag racing on dirt, and throwing down on the dyno, along with No Prep...