Category Archive: ENGINES, FUNNY STUFF, Videos
Will A One-Inch Cordless Impact Gun Start This Ancient Tractomotive? Will It Start At All?
Have you ever looked at something sitting in the weeds and with a sigh, thought to yourself, “Yup…that sucker ain’t ever running again”? The car that is up to it’s hubs...
More Photos From Bonneville Speed Week 2019: We’ve Still Got Hundreds More Photos To Share
Bonneville is a very special place. It is historic, it is beautiful, it is a natural wonder. And it is the home of horsepower in so many ways. We told you we’d have more photos coming and we...
The Caddy That Kicks Ass Is On The Market! Nitrous SBC, And Plenty Of Fluffy Comfort Too!
A couple of years ago I met Arthur Petry and his 1983 Cadillac Coupe deVille, a car that I dubbed “The Caddy that Kicks Ass”. My first note was that I was seeing a super-clean box Caddy...
This 50 cc Bonneville 2-Stroke Motorcycle Build Is An Exercise In Home Grown Machining And Building Worth Watching
Sometimes it surprises me the things that people can make with the simplest of tools. We’re so used to CNC machines and high tech tools that we sometimes forget just how good the right saw,...
Morning Symphony: The Burnyard Bash At Irwindale – When You Just Need To Unwind The Steel Belts!
It’s been a long damn week. Meetings that should have been emails at the best of times, traffic jams that would drive the Chinese nuts, and if your cell phone goes off one more time, something...
Billy Morris Wild Top End Ride In “Problem Child” Camaro at Spokane!
(Video by Darr Hawthorne) Billy “the Kid” Morris is in his second season driving a nitro funny car in the NHRA Heritage Series and United Nitro Funny Cars events. He was voted Legends of Nitro...
The Bikes Of Bonneville: Nothing But Motorcycles From Bonneville Speed Week 2019
There are a ton of different cars, trucks, lakesters, streamliners and roadsters at Bonneville for Speed Week each year. We’re talking about variety like you have never seen. But two and three...
Vintage Ad Watch: This Compilation Of Five 1985 Ford Truck Ads Rules But Bronco IIs Stil Suck
If there were certain constants in the 1980s, one of them was the fact that when an advertisement for pickup trucks came on TV, you were going to see some thrashing, some abuse, and some fun being...
The Leader Of The New World: Brian Wolfe’s 1986 Ford Mustang GT
This red 1986 Ford Mustang GT isn’t Genesis, but it is an instrumental car that led the charge into the 5.0L Fox Mustang performance era. While many were focused on 1987-and-newer machines,...
Under The Radar: Mitsubishi’s Forgotten AWD Turbo Terror, The Galant VR-4!
There is no doubt that the 1990s was Mitsubishi’s time to shine. After coming off of the 1980s, the Starion, and the successes of the Pajero in racing, they had the DSM cars that were co-built...
Motocross For Four Wheels: The Nitro World Games Rallycross Course!
Travis Pastrana has made a name for himself over the years. If it’s beyond mental and borderline deadly, he’s probably tried it. Motocross? He was on that before he was out of high school...
Classic YouTube: The Burndown Battle Of The Rotaries!
Some guys play checkers, others play chess. For some, the moves are simple: burnout, stage one, stage two, and go when your right foot and brain are in sync with the bulbs on the Christmas tree. Nail...
Rough Start: 1967 Ford Thunderbird – Personal Luxury, Before Brougham
I can still picture it now: brown, flat tire, shattered glass bits on the carpet, with no hope of ever running again. But it was overall complete and nobody was there to tell me why it wasn’t a...
Grape Warhead: Mazda MX-3 With Dual Engines Because…Eh, Why The Hell Not!
Front-wheel-drive is wrong-wheel-drive. We know this. We have them, and outside of daily-driver status, we aren’t on board. And I speak about that from a performance perspective…you can...