The Starting Shift: Ride Along In A Gear Jamming, Hard Pulling, Group B Audi On A Hillclimb
I wanted to bend some corners for this week’s Parting Shift so that’s why I went hunting in the world of hillclimb racing. These courses are challenging and fast with lots of corners,...
Airplane Engine, Chain Drive, And Tire Smoke – This Is What Racing Looked Like 100+ Years Ago
In our award winning (ok, it has not won any awards…yet) series Before Bonneville we have been showing you in still photos what the world of high performance cars looked like 100-110 years...
This In-Car Video Of A Muscled Up Porsche 911 Hauling Tail Around Spa Is Totally Awesome – TONS Of Sideways Action
There are in-car road racing videos and then there are in-car videos of dudes who are true masters behind the wheel and this is one of the latter. Through virtually the entire lap of the famous Spa...
Challenge Accepted: Watch Mark Higgins Pilot A Subaru Rally Car Down A Bobsled Course!
Mark Higgins has done many great things in a Subaru WRX STI, most notably his monstrous 17:49.75 lap at the Snaefell Mountain Course…you know, the Isle of Man TT loop that is considered one...
A Preserved “Day 2” V8 Vega? This Thing Is A Time Capsule!
Lately, I’ve had a thing for the diminutive Chevrolet Vega. Bone stock, they were boring and unreliable, and let’s face it: they weren’t very good at being cars. That’s why...
Dirt Power Wheelie: Watch Lachie Abbott Put An Aussie Sprint Car Near Vertical
Of all the feats that various race cars perform, few are more spectacular than a sprint car pulling a massive power wheelie. Why? Mostly because these things are happening on dirt, they have a...
This 1972 Monte Carlo Was Once Raced By A NASCAR Legend And Has Been Restored To Perfection
This 1972 Chevy Monte Carlo was once the property and steed of Jack “Ironman” Ingram. Ingram was one of the sport’s best racers in the Busch Grand National division. He racked up an...
Wild Video: Watch A Guy Attempt The First Motorcycle Parachute Jump In 1926 – Fails and Lives
That amazing moment captured in time above requires some explanation. The rider is a guy named Fred Osborne and what he’s doing is hurtling himself off the cliff atop a motorcycle with a...
Hate Boy Bands? The New Kids On The Block 1987 Camaro Convertible Will Solidify Those Feelings
The New Kids On The Block were a sensation in the middle 1980s all the way into the 1990s and frankly everyone reading this probably hated them. They were a Boston area group that all came from a...
This Commercial Featuring Legendary Driver Sir Jackie Stewart Cements His Place As One Of The Coolest Guys Ever
Sir Jackie Stewart was one of the best race drivers of his era, he was a tireless advocate for improvements in safety for racers, fans, and tracks, he’s a freaking knight, and he was also a...
Awesome Video: Watch A Rarely Seen McLaren M6GT Roar Around The Mt. Tremblant Course In Canada Circa 1970
The McLaren M6GT is an interesting study in how racing can be a fickle mistress to creative people like Bruce McLaren. The basic premise behind the M6GT was to build a run of 50 road going versions...
This 1967 Mustang Is A Legit Shelby Built, Trans-Am Raced Hunk Of Rolling Ford History
Shelby was a fan of Trans-Am, Ford were fane of Trans-Am and because of this, they both got along great. Shelby was building cars for Trans-Am classes in 1966 and he continued for more than a couple...
The Curious Case Of The Crumpled Star Chief – Check Out This Oddly Damaged Old Pontiac
(By Greg Rourke) – Why do I like living in northern Illinois? I have no answer for that. Snow, cold, road salt, prisons full of our former governors, rusty cars, tornadoes, hot humid summers,...
Watch Jim Rockford And His Trusty Firebird Out Fox The Gnarly Hot Rodded Corvette Of The Bad Guys
James Garner may no longer be with us but his legacy lives on. He was always a gearhead and a racer like Steve McQueen and he performed the majority of the driving stunts and action stuff during his...
