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Nitro Time Machine: Watch Jim White Bust The 290mph Barrier In Funny Car and Chat Up Steve Evans Behind The Scenes!
This right here is some prime-cut goodness for those hardcore NHRA fans of “back in the day”. One of the neatest parts of my job with NHRA is the fact that I have the keys to the massive...
Listen Up: The Story Of The 1927 Dole Air Race Is One of The Most Tragic And Insane Missives In American Aviation History!
The 1927 Dole Air Race stands as one of the most bizarre and tragic events in the history of flight. Paid for by James Dole, the pineapple magnate, the race was designed to capitalize on the fame...
Demonic Dyno Session: Watch Ryan Tuerck’s Judd V10 Touch 10,000 and 11,000 RPM On The Pump
There are pretty high stakes whenever an engine is put on the dyno for testing, right? No matter if it is a 350hp engine that you made yourself in the garage or whether it is some whiz-bang creation...
No Fear Whatsoever: The Trash Can Bronco Takes On The Cheap Truck Challenge
Nobody is going to confuse Kevin’s Bronco with any kind of showpiece. Not one person. It’s living one last time before the body completely and utterly bails the program, the engine gets...
Hater Maker: This Stock Looking Beetle Is Subie Swapped And Makes 300+ Wheel Horsepower On The Dyno
There are few things that we love more around here than an honest to God sleeper and when you see something like this Beetle you know what those words mean. Yes, once the guy hammers the pedal it...
Technically Proficient: The Vietnam-era Gun Truck
Around the time I was hopping a 767 to fly over to someplace hot and sandy, an issue was becoming a hot-button topic in the media: the lack of armor on military vehicles and the resulting casualties...
Nitro Time Machine: The End Of Eddie Hill’s Career In Top Fuel Came In Back To Back Monster Explosions – See Them Here
It was a very rough end to not only the 1999 season for Eddie Hill but his top fuel career which had spanned the decades. Two weeks in a row, the cast aluminum engine blocks his top fuel race motors...
Begrudgingly Good: Looking Back To The 1994 Chevrolet S-10 And GMC Sonoma
I will tell anybody who will listen that, to date, the biggest pile I’ve ever owned was a 1999 Chevrolet Blazer three-door. Not even the Chevrolet Cruze that ate about half of it’s value...
Engineer The Quit Out Of It: This Tour Of The Optima Battery Manufacturing Plant Is Amazing
This is one of the coolest videos that highlight the manufacturing end of a product that we have ever seen. Not only do we get a peek behind the curtain of the manufacturing process for Optima...
Killer Coyote: Watch As A 315ci Ford Coyote Engine With A 3.8L Whipple Blower Makes 2,000+ HP On The Dyno
Chris Holbrook is known far and wide in drag racing circles as a guy who can build basically any combo of engine into a beastly class mangler. I have personally seen his work in a multitude of drag...
Not A Supercharger: This All-Billet Four Rotor Engine Build Is Awesome And Wild!
It was 1991 when Mazda won the 24 hours of Le Mans with their famed C787B race car which was powered by a four rotor version of the company’s rotary engine called the 13J (also built as the...
Spin Cycle FTW! Check Out This Collection Of AWD Donuts!
Up until the last couple of years, the only AWD vehicle that I had ever spent a good amount of time actually driving it was a black Mitsubishi 3000GT VR4. It belonged to an aunt, and every now and...
Meet The Man Who Built A Replica Of An Audi Quattro S1 E2 So Well That Racer Who Drove It Got Goosebumps
In late 1985, Audi unleashed the Sport Quattro S1 E2. Or, in simple terms, the wildest, most violent form of the Audi Quattro rally car to be set loose in World Rally, period. After having endured a...
