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Category Archive: RACING & ACTION, Videos

Question Of The Day: Has YouTube Influenced Your Automotive Leanings Any, And If So, How?

YouTube has been the world’s greatest drain on productivity since it appeared on the Internet in 2005. A majority of my day is spent surfing YouTube for work, never mind what I do on my time...

SEMA 2015: The Strangest Sights At The Show – From Cars To B.J. Baldwin’s Pet, It’s Here, And It’s Not Just Because Of Vegas

I’ve been to Las Vegas enough to know that even when you don’t get completely and utterly drunk and blackout that weird shit can happen. From the six-foot-five rental car agency clerk...

RideTech Debuts The New Street Grip System At SEMA 2015 – The Perfect Formula For Fun

As we have been telling you, this year’s SEMA show was completely wall to wall with people, vendors, cars, and passers by who probably should not have been there in the first place. Because of...

Crash And Burn: This 8-Second Honda Pile-Drives The Barrier Before Doing A Barrel Roll And Landing On It’s Roof!

At about 150 miles an hour, aerodynamic forces go from being an afterthought to being a concern for any automobile driver. Lift is a genuine concern, and any air that can get underneath a car can...

SEMA 2015: McTaggart’s Second Round Of Favorites From The Show!

It has been a few days since the hangover of SEMA has worn off, but I have yet to quit going through the photos. Picking favorite cars out of the myriad of vehicles that were present, however, is...

Trick Flow Specialties Brought A Massive Array Of New Products To SEMA! Tools, Heads, Cool Stuff!

One of the hallmarks of any SEMA show is “new stuff”. We have showed you new parts ranging from dash pads to cylinder heads for diesel trucks at this point and we’re just getting...

Rough Start: This 1988 Isuzu Impulse RS Is Packing A V8 Punch And A Bit Of Body Lightening, But The Price Makes It A Winner!

A thousand dollars does not buy a whole lot of car anymore…it has been decades since it has. But what if I could honestly sell you a restomodded car based on a rare vehicle that you would be...

SEMA 2015: And Now, An Intermission Featuring Pro 2 Trucks And The Parking Lot Out Front!

Had I known that at some point in time Pro 2 trucks were going to be raising hell in the Ford Out Front drift pit/arena, I would have sectioned off a set of time to go see it. You see, watching the...

SEMA 2015: OPGI Announces RestoParts, Has Cool Cars, New Parts, Launches Sale

Our pals over at OPGI really pulled out all the stops for this year’s SEMA show. The company always does it right with a big display and cool cars to draw people into their area but in 2015,...

The South Shall Sink Again! Over A Dozen Cars Fall Into Sinkhole At A Brand New Mississippi IHOP’s Parking Lot!

It hasn’t been long since the last sinkhole to grace our presence, the Corvette Museum sinkhole, was filled to the brim and sealed off, but apparently there is something about the South that...

Trends From SEMA 2015: We Play “Good Idea, Bad Idea” With What We Saw At The Show!

As huge as SEMA is, we’re bound to be able to make a “good-bad-Oh My God” list in short order. It’s one thing to have our favorite cars or to have a list of must-see stuff,...

SEMA 2015 Debut: Ringbrothers’ 1965 Ford Mustang, “Espionage” – Carbon Fiber Body, 959 Horsepower And Over Three Years’ Worth Of Work

Jim and Mike Ring’s creations are well known for their high-end, high quality creations that start life as standard muscle cars such as the “Recoil” 1966 Chevelle and the...

This Skyline-Nosed Nissan Sunny Truck Was An Eye-Catcher At SEMA 2015 – Here’s The Scoop On It!

Throughout the entirety of this year’s SEMA show, I was stunned at how many Japanese imports were catching my eye…that isn’t something that is easy to do, but cars such as the BRE...

SEMA 2015 Gallery: Chevrolet’s Camaro Is Alive And Well, And Thriving!

“A small, vicious animal that eats Mustangs”. Hmm…while the sales executive might have been feeling a touch creative when he blurted out that gem at a press conference, the...