Category Archive: MISC, MOPAR, TRUCKS, Videos
STAMPEDE! Hundreds Of Dodge Rams Take Over The Nurburgring For A World Record!
When I was traveling through Ireland and the UK a couple of years ago, I noticed one thing among all others in regards to cars: American cars of any kind are such a rarity that it actually catches...
Check Out The Current Projects In Jay Leno’s Garage: Stitching A 100-Year-Old Block Together, The Cunningham, And More!
The one thing we dig about Jay Leno is that he’s very open about his garage and what’s inside. It’s always neat to see what’s going on behind the scenes when he puts out these...
Sorry, But There Is Not One Pic-A-Nic Basket In That Subaru Wagon, Yogi!
It is never a good day when you come out to your car and find something occupying it that you didn’t leave in there in the first place. For the owner of this Subaru Outback, that...
Best of BS 2016: Ice Racing With Chainsaw Propulsion Makes Running With Scissors Look Like Amateur Hour
There’s not enough recreational activities that involve chainsaws. Sure the felling of trees, the occasional dismemberment, and scaring the hell out of innocent kids on Halloween are fine uses...
Watch As Friends And Fellow Racers Pay Tribute To One Of Their Own At Shakespeare County Raceway
You often hear and see racers talk about people they know at the track as “a family”. We do it all the time here as well, but what does that mean to you? Are you just used to seeing...
Sunday Movie Day: Cledus Snow Saves The Day In His Big Rig At The End Of Smokey And The Bandit I
In a recent conversation with friends, we talked about how Smokey and the Bandit may have become the largest grossing movie of 1977 had it not run into another small sci-fi flick with the title of...
Cool Metal Fabrication Video: A Master Blacksmith Makes Real Wolverine Claws And Then Mangles Stuff With Them
As you might have surmised from the title, this post has absolutely nothing to do with cars, but it has everything to do with awesome fabrication and metalworking skills and those are things that...
Jay Leno Shows You What Is Being Worked On In His Shop: A Hemi-Powered Cunningham, A Porsche Restoration, And More!
Jay Leno is a car guy, through and through, there is no doubt about it, and he has the money to do whatever the hell he wants to do. But the reason we like what he does is that he didn’t...
Morning Symphony: The Gumpert Apollo S Is As Snotty And As Powerful As The People Who Can Afford Them!
There is a phrase that I’ve only recently become familiar with that has an, to me at least, an interesting context: “F___ you money”. If you’ve seen the movie “The Wolf...
Watch A Wheel For The Bloodhound SSC Get Spin Tested To 1,100 MPH In A Huge Test Rig
One of the things we have long admired about the Bloodhound SSC project is that the organizers and builders have managed to turn the whole venture into a huge source of national pride and teamwork...
Insanity on Ice: Unlimited Sleds of the Golden Age of Snowmobile Speed Runs, With Video
While winter has not gotten here in the technical sense of the date, the worm has turned for us in northern climates and it is cold, grey, and occasionally flurrying here and there. We know a guy in...
Unhinged: The Six New Presenters Of Top Gear Have Been Announced. Will The Show Be Worth Watching? Let’s Look At The New Faces And Find Out…
Finally, we seem to have a resolution to the TopGear “fracas” that started when Jeremy Clarkson decked assistant producer Oisin Tymon over a missing steak dinner about a year ago. While...
Best Of 2015: Plowing Snow Like A Boss Using An Old Honda Three-Wheeler!
A fairly hidden fact is that before I got deep into cars I was deeper into bikes and trikes. I loved my dirt bikes, but without question the one ride that I adored above all others were early 1980s...
Dyno Video: This AMC Spirit Is Kicking Out 433 Horsepower At The Wheels – Bet It’s A Lot Of Fun On The Street!
When you review the history of American Motors, it becomes apparent that making it to 1987 was actually nothing short of a miracle. After reaching their height about 1971 or so, AMC took a steady...