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Category Archive: ENGINES, FUNNY STUFF, Videos

Your Machinists’ Nightmare: This Caterpillar D2 Engine Is Beyond Salvation!

I haven’t been playing with the internals of engines long. I’ve done head swaps and stuff like that since I was a kid, but getting into the deep internals of an engine has been a recent...

Classic YouTube: Tanner Foust, Shredding The Cheese With A Drift Car

Did you ever hear of the show “Masters of Champions”? Probably not…only a small handful of episodes were aired by ABC before the plug got pulled. I never watched it, but from what I...

Classic YouTube: Dr. Yes And The 1966 Chevrolet Chevelle SS-396

Oh, what’s a hero to do when his extremely well-worn 1957 DeSoto kicks the bucket in a pile of bright orange smoke? He heeds the urging of a road sign that couldn’t be more clued in if...

Lame Off: 1972 Nova vs 1977 Olds Omega. Which Nasty Example Is The Lamest?

The guys at Holley are awesome! When they decide to do something fun, they don’t mess around. So what the hell is a Lame Off? Take one 4 door 1972 Nova and one two door but still horrible 1977...

Braver Than Most: The Many Faces Of The One-Time Rally Passenger

Be honest with yourself for one moment: if, by sheer luck, you got an invite to ride in the empty seat next to Sébastian Ogier on a rally stage in his WRC race car, would you honestly have the...

This Is Awesome: A Complete, Soup To Nuts Pro Mod Run Tutorial Hosted By Stevie Fast Jackson – So Great

There are videos out there that talk about how to drive a drag race car but there has never been a more in-depth video made about making a run in a supercharged pro mod than this one. Literally every...

Completely Insane Video: Dude Spins A 360, Does Not Cross Center Or Hit Wall, WINS THE RACE!

The “No Guts, No Glory” grudge event at Orlando is one of the most wild and wooly races in drag racing every year. All of the biggest grudge racers come from around the country and lock...

Thunderstruck: Cleetus’ Auction Corvette Has One Hell Of A Backstory! Hear How The Truck-Engined C6 Came To Be!

Every car has a story. Someone built it, someone bought it as a brand-new car and from the moment it rolled out of the dealership, the chapters unfold. Some cars have nice, boring lives of just...

Great Idea Office, Nitrous Division: Cleetus And Crew Hit The Dyno With The Auction Corvette

Credit to Cleetus for making lemonade out of lemons here. We told you last week about how, in a moment of full impulse, he bought a C6 Corvette that had taken a mild tap up front from an auction for...

An Auction Screwup Or A Surprise Score? Cleetus Gets Suckered On An C6 Corvette!

I’ve only bought one car at an auction. The truth was that I was looking to get my then teenage brother a car, I had a budget…and after I got out-bid on everything else I tried to score,...

Legends Video: The 2018 NHRA SEMA Breakfast Assembled Amato, Prudhomme, Bernstein, and Force – The Stories Flew!

There’s something awesome about getting legendary racers together and letting them yak. At the 2018 NHRA SEMA breakfast, four of the greatest drag racers ever were put on stage and effectively...

The Hoonicorn Was Supposed To Be A Maverick? Hoonigan Tells Some Secrets Behind Gymkhana!

After ten different Gymkhana videos that require tons of back support, lots of details and tons of planning to pull off properly, there’s bound to be some stories that haven’t been told...

It’s Ford vs Plymouth vs Chevrolet In This 1966 Station Wagon Showdown – Narration By Lorne Green

Remember the good old days when car companies actually made cars? We live in an era now when seemingly every week we see news that car companies are discontinuing the production of, well, cars. Back...

Happy Holley Days! Holley’s Year-End Sale Is On Now Until The End Of The Year!

As we enter that time of year simply known as “the holidays”, lines of thought tend towards deciding what to give others for the year. You might have to figure out what to get the aunts,...