The Way It Was: This Video Profile Of A 1950s Era Frank Kurtis Indy Car Is Awesome On Every Level
Tomorrow some of the world’s best drivers will get in some of the world’s best race cars and do something that men have been doing for more than 100 years. They are going to race. Like...
Best Overtake Ever? This Go-Kart Racer Leapfrogs His Competition At A Race In Canada!
There are some things you never, ever want to see in the middle of a go-kart race: an animal on the track you weren’t expecting. A solid, non-moving object, like a racer that spun out. A banana...
Money Spent In All Of The Right Places: This 2JZ-Powered Datsun 260Z Is Loud, Fast And Capable, But Pretty It Ain’t!
If you are a purist hot rodder, then the basic premise of whatever you build should follow one mantra: speed first. How do you do that properly? Start with something that was thrown away or left for...
Ultimate Indy Debacle Video: The Kevin Cogan Wreck Before the Green Flag Dropped in 1982
Earlier we showed you some Indy 500 competitors spinning out their junk during the parade laps before the race started. That was comical, but this footage from the 1982 Indy 500 is downright wild....
Take a helmet-cam ride in a bike-powered sports racer up a Spanish hill climb course
Bike-engined hill climb cars are a bit of a European specialty with a number of companies like Wolf, Norma, and Osella producing what are essentially miniature Le Mans prototypes. With featherweight...
Here’s A $160,000 Camry That You May Want To Own And Could Be The Buy Of The Century
Put your weapons down. Drop the torches, the pitchforks, whatever that other thing is, and the bazooka. I have not lost my mind. I have not sold my soul to the devil, but what I have done is stumbled...
Quick Review: 2016 Chevrolet Camaro RS 2LT Four-Cylinder – How Does GM’s Pony Car Stack Up With Only Half Of The Deck?
In the fall of 1981, the new-for-1982 Chevrolet Camaro offered up an option that pretty much told you how bad the situation was: the LQ9, better known as Pontiac’s “Iron Duke”...
For The Ultimate In Entertainment Buy This Exo-Caged Former Cop Car Crown Vic – PIT Maneuver For Lyfe!
We’re not sure that there’s a better way to spend $3,500 than there is on this former cop car Crown Vic that has been outfitted with big steel bashers front and rear, likely for PIT...
Morning Symphony: Beating On New Chevrolet Camaro ZL1s around the Nurburgring Was Never Mentioned At Career Day
So far, I haven’t worked one single job that would line up with what my guidance counselor told me I’d wind up becoming. To be fair, most of the jobs I’ve had didn’t line up...
152 Miles An Hour At Indy, Semi-Autonomously – Watch As Sam Schmidt Run Indy Using Only His Eyes And Breath!
152 miles an hour around the Indianapolis Motor Speedway in 2016 should register much of a reaction normally, but in the case of this black Corvette Z06, it’s a milestone. Driving the car is...
Project Angry Grandpa: A Beautiful Day, An Open Racetrack, And No Reason To Hold Back
I needed an escape. There was no doubt about it…between work, the ongoing project that is BangShift Mid-West HQ (coming attraction: garage!), and weather that I wouldn’t wish on my worst...
James Hinchcliffe will start the 100th Indy 500 from pole just a year after a near-fatal accident at the track
Just a year after watching the Indianapolis 500 from a hospital bed, James Hinchcliffe has penned the first chapter of a fairy tale comeback story with by claiming the 2016 Indy 500 pole. He was the...
CraigsList: The World’s Nicest Chevette Scooter Is Up For Sale
There’s no point in sugar-coating this: The Chevette was a miserable car from a miserable era of American motoring. The 1973 gas shortage had sent automakers into a panic and Chevy had...
Somehow everybody survived this massive airborne Formula 3 wreck in Austria
If there’s anything to take away from this absolutely brutal crash in the European Formula 3 Championship last weekend, it’s that modern safety gear is entirely remarkable. Chinese driver Zhi...
