Category Archive: RACING & ACTION, Videos
These Taiwanese Racers Have Turned Scooters Into Screaming Racers
On the surface, it almost looks like a joke, doesn’t it? Two motor scooters, on thin tires, with small engines that have the angry wasp exhaust note, idling at the line with the riders suited...
Mini-Hack! This Chopped Up Fiero Is Ready For Summer Fun, On Or Off Road!
Hot Rod Magazine’s penchant for taking the almighty sawzall might have earned ire with the Caddy-Hack and Ponti-Hack stories from 1987 and 1997, but the one that really got people wound up was...
2015 Bay Area VW Club Poker Run – Shine, Patina, Customs, Even A Kit Car Or Two!
(Photos by Charles Wickam) – While the VW Beetle may have had some nefarious beginnings, it was (and continues to be) a worldwide icon of fun, freedom, and a blank canvass for anyone with...
Highway Creepers Show Coverage: Our Last Blast Of Photos From The Event
(Photos by Scott Liggett) – For about as long as there have been people messing with cars there have been car clubs serving as places for enthusiasts to gather, bench race, fight, talk smack,...
Naked And Love Autocross? RideTech’s New Shirts Can Fix Your Problem And Share Your Love Of Cone Killing
Outside of court appearances, weddings, and funerals, you we live in t-shirts. Ok, in New England there may be a couple of months where the t-shirt is a secondary layer but you get what we are...
This Jaguar F-Type Will Be The Pace Car And Emergency Vehicle For The Bloodhound SSC
The Bloodhound SSC is being designed to max out at 1,000 MPH on land. And the team behind it is damn serious about that goal. But the team has to have support for when they run. A myriad of vehicles...
Rough Start: This 401-powered AMC Spirit AMX Is Another Slight Stretch Of The Budget Worth Making
If there is one car above all the others that has been eating at the back of my mind lately it is any of the AMC Spirit models. They are a good sized car, they are unique, they are a fairly handsome...
Show Coverage: 2015 Bay Area VW Club Poker Run – One Awesome Texas VW Gathering!
(Photos by Charles Wickam) – The old saw is that “everything is bigger in Texas” and our own Charles Wickam lived up to that adage last weekend when he managed to attend multiple...
Takata Airbag Recall: Takata Admits Airbag Inflators Are Faulty, Recalling Nearly 34 Million Vehicles
In what may become the largest nationwide recall ever of a product, Takata, the automotive safety manufacturer who has been in the headlines for airbag inflators that can explode into shrapnel,...
Highway Creepers 2015 Car Show Coverage: More Photos From The Fun Nebraska Get Together
(Photos by Scott Liggett) – When Scott Liggett told me he had plenty of photos from the Highway Creepers show, I wasn’t exactly sure if I should thank him or call the cops. After asking...
This Green Dream 1970 Road Runner Time Warp Is Up For Sale!
There was one magazine in my collection as a kid that wasn’t 1993 or newer. It was one I swiped from my stepfather’s collection, a collection of custom muscle cars, vans and T-buckets...
Random Car Review: 2004 Buick Rainier GNX – Was Buick Sincere About Trying To Build A TrailBlazer SS Competitor?
The Chevrolet TrailBlazer SS was the bright light that shone from the otherwise perfectly avoidable GMT360 platform. With the 6.0L LS2, an optional all-wheel-drive system and enough power and noise...
Rick’s Tanks Releases Resto Mod Tank Line – Video Takes You Through The New Tanks And What Makes Them Great
Rick’s Tanks reputation for quality and fitment is nearly unrivaled in the industry so when Rick told us that he was working on something big at his El Paso based business we knew it was going...
Rough Start: This Clean 1968 Imperial Barely Breaks The Bank, But It’s A Lot Of Car For The Money
The dream for any car hunter is to find a vehicle from yesteryear that offers a lot of bang for the bucks that are spent. It doesn’t matter if it’s the fastest, or the prettiest, or the...