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GEN 2 LT1-THE OTHER GUYS SMALL BLOCK-HOW MUCH ARE PORTED HEADS & TPIS ZZ409 CAM WORTH ON THE LT1?

I’ve got a Gen 2 LT1 in a 1956 Chevy, and it has always been a fun engine. It’s mostly stock, but when we put a stand alone EFI on it and significantly improved ignition, we were able to...

The Aztek 200 Part 2! O’Reilly Auto Parts, Vice Grip Garage, Tony Angelo, Alex Taylor, And Tate Morgan Drag Race Pontiac Azteks In Tucson

Here is Part 2, where we’re drag racing Pontiac Aztek’s at Tucson Dragway, before really putting them through their paces in the desert. Oh, but not before some careful...

GEN 2 LT1 INTAKE TEST-CARB VS EFI! STOCK LT1 EFI VS GM DUAL-PLANE & EDELBROCK VRS CARB. WHO WINS?

I’ve got a Gen 2 LT1 in a 1956 Chevy, and it has always been a fun engine. It’s mostly stock, but when we put a stand alone EFI on it and significantly improved ignition, we were able to...

Sick Summer Day 2 Video From 1320Video And Alex Taylor Racing: Carnage, Unique Rides, Big Numbers, And So Much More Going On!

Sick Summer, the latest event from the folks at Sick The Magazine, just started up this week and we’ve got video to share from our friends over at 1320 Video and Alex Taylor Racing. They are...

Weird Car On A Dead Track: 1985 Plymouth Colt Turbo Tested At Bridgehampton

The magic of the 1980s was that there were weird cars kind of falling out of the sky on a regular basis. Today, that does not happen anymore. There are very few surprises out there. People have their...

Sick Summer Day 1 Video From 1320Video And Alex Taylor Racing: It’s Time To Start Racing! Who’s Surviving Day One? Wheelies, Engines, More!

Sick Summer, the latest event from the folks at Sick The Magazine, just started up this week and we’ve got video to share from our friends over at 1320 Video and Alex Taylor Racing. They are...

Watch TV Tommy Ivo Race The Green Mamba Jet Car Circa The Late 1960s in Texas!

Ahhh, match racing. The fabled way for so many stars of the drag racing world to pay the bills and make cash with their hot rods. It is vaudeville on four wheels with a schedule that’s 10-times...

Video: Gentle Giants – Big Horsepower Tractors Of The 1970s From Minneapolis-Moline and Oliver

While passenger cars and trucks were being stripped of their manhood by government regulations in the early 1970s, farmers across America were transitioning into an era where horsepower was king....

Vice Grip Garage’s Chopped Top 1935 Ford Truck is Back, But It Is Time To BUILD IT BETTER This Time!

Who doesn’t love a chopped 1935 Ford pickup truck? Well whoever owns it when it doesn’t run or drive well enough to be fun, that’s who. And in this case it’s Derek from Vice...

Finnegan’s New Mystery Drag and Drive Project Car Needs Major Surgery Already! What Has He Done?

In typical Finnegan style, something in the new race car is just not going to work and requires some surgery. But it’s fine. I mean it will all be fine, right? This project is something...

Alex Taylor, And The Rest Of The Taylor Clan, Are On Sick Summer. But What Mistakes Did They Make Before Even Starting?! Day 0

We shared 1320Video’s first video from Sick Summer as well, and Alex Taylor and the crew are also on the trip. They are sharing their own videos from each day of the event and this is the first...

1320Video Is Back With A New Drag And Drive To Cover: 300 Racers, 5 Day of Racing, at 4 Tracks= Sick Summer

Sick Summer, the latest event from the folks at Sick The Magazine, just started up this week and we’ve got video to share from our friends over at 1320 Video. It’s the shortest Drag and...

Iron Trap Garage Is Chopping The Windshield On Mike’s 1934 Ford Cabriolet, And It Looks So Rad! He Is Thrilled!

Chopping a top, regardless of the car or truck, takes some real work. And the bigger and rounder the roof, the tougher it is to chop and make look right. That means that if all you have to do is chop...

The Big Test: This 1980s Film Touts GMs Testing Procedures Of The Day – Did No One Tell Them That The Cars Sucked?

The video you are about to watch was made by General Motors in the early 1980s to show the world just how serious they were about testing their products before they went to market. It shows off the...