Project Angry Grandpa: Our First Test With The New Setup At Beech Bend – How Close Are We To The 12-Second Goal?
You are damn skippy that I was going to take the new and improved Chrysler out to Beech Bend the first chance I got! After thrashing earlier in the week to give old Gramps a bit more get-up-and-go,...
Nearly Nine Seconds In Cadillac Comfort – This CTS-V Coupe Is Wicked!
The modern age of horsepower is the golden age of horsepower. It’s true. By the time you’re reading this I’ll be at Beech Bend, making the first passes down the dragstrip in a...
Watch The Iron Big Block Chevy Powered Metal Mafia Fuel Altered Take On Ozark Motorsports Park
We have told you about and showed you video of the Metal Mafia fuel altered before. These guys are awesome because the car has an iron big block Chevy engine. We’re talking all iron from the...
SEMA 2016: Will The Steel Bodied 1967 Buick Street Funny Car From SEMA 2015 Be Topped?
(Editor’s note: As the 2016 SEMA show is approaching with the speed of an asteroid coming for the Earth, we’re going to look back at 2015 over the next couple of days to show you our...
Race Everything! The Street Eliminator UK Has Some Quality Oddballs
The biggest place to go drag racing in the United Kingdom is the old air base-turned drag strip at Santa Pod Raceway. With a fairly bustling racing scene, that makes for a fairly packed schedule...
Weirdest Drag Car We Have Ever Found: A 1958 NSU Sport Prinz With An N/A Buick V6?!
The NSU Prinz was manufactured between 1958 and 1968 over in Germany. 20,000 of them (give or take) were sold during that decade. We are guessing a very small percentage of those cars traveled to...
MOVE IT, GRANDPA: The Old Man And His 215-MPH Twin-Turbo Lamborghini!
At the age of 71 years old, my grandfather Ken (the namesake of the Angry Grandpa Chrysler, by the way) was driving a 1989 Chrysler New Yorker that had the Mark Cross leather, the trick overhead...
Watch One Of The Quickest AWD Drag Cars In The World Get Wild On The Strip – EKanoo GTR
Bahrain’s EKanoo Racing has a fleet of cars that range from big nitrous engined Pro Mods to the insane GT86 Toyota which has made repeated five second runs with a 2JZ engine. The guys also have...
Watch The Golden Gorilla Actually Become One – The Behind The Scenes Story Of The $60,000 SGMP Win
There have been some great seasons put together by racers in the drag radial world over the last decade but it will be very difficult to best the effort put forth by DeWayne Mills and his entire crew...
eBay Find: Would You Pay $60,000 For 100 Four Speed Cores? Vintage Stuff And Lots Of It
This is an interesting eBay ad and question. There are 100 four speed cores for sale from this one seller and if you are in the restoration business it seems like this transaction may make sense but...
Say “VTEC” Again, I Dare You: Jeff Lutz, Jr.’s Wicked Twin-Turbo Small-Block Honda Is One Mean Little Bastard!
I have no shame in admitting it: Any and every Honda that claims to be wicked and fast has to prove itself to me before I nod my head in agreement. Case in point: during a test-and-tune night, a...
Watch Jay Payne Wipe Out The Tree In A Funny Car At Las Vegas Circa 2015
As I’ll be spending the better part of a month in and around the greater Las Vegas area starting on Wednesday, I have been thinking of some entertaining stuff that has happened at The Strip...
Answering The Call Of The Blower With A 1978 Chevrolet Camaro Type LT!
Normally, this is where I’d put some cheesy line about “Autumn is blower season”, but seriously…blower cars don’t have a season unless you live in a place where you risk...
