Category Archive: CAR FEATURES, Videos
This 1/5th Scale Dodge Challenger R/C Is A Little Demon With A Ton Of Details And The Ability To Do Burnouts!
Tell me this isn’t cool…go on, I dare you. YouTuber “Hemistorm RC” is one of the many remote-controlled vehicle fans out there in the world, and his works are top-notch. With...
Historical Footage: Follow The Build Of A 1955 Plymouth Belvedere With “Wishes On Wheels”
Automotive assembly lines have pretty much been the same ever since Ransom E. Olds filed the patent in 1901 and Henry Ford powered it with conveyor belts twelve years later. Pieces and parts are...
Shop Tips Video: This Awesome Piece From The Guys At QA1 Shares Some Great Quick Tips From Their Shop
We’re hoping that as you are keeping your social distance these days you have gotten the chance to wrench on your stuff and maybe spend more time in your shop on your projects than you had...
Awesome Video: Watch Near 100-Year Old Cars Run Full Bore And Battle For The Lead At Goodwood
There’s just something magical about watching ancient cars being driven as hard as they will go in competition, right? Whether it is vintage drag racing iron, old stock cars, or even old...
The Brightening, Part 1: Getting A 1980 Chevy Big 10 Auction Ready
When I get rid of a car, it happens in one of three manners. For the newer vehicles, usually it gets traded in for another newer vehicle. For older vehicles, usually I name a price and it sells as it...
What Does It Take To Rebuild The Infamous Cannonball Run Ambulance? Here’s The Story From The Man Who Did!
What would pass as typical highway/interstate speeds today was bona-fide illegal during the heyday of the Cannonball Run. Not the movie, the stealth race that spanned coast-to-coast. Devised as a...
Quarantine Piece Theater: 1960’s Drag Racing Film Is The Coolest! Indy, Pomona, Bee Line
Kalitta vs Garlits at the US Nationals, Ohio Geoge Montgomery vs Stone, Woods, and Cook, coverage of loads of class eliminations, the biggest races of the year in 1964 and early 1965 covered in...
Watch A Garden Tractor With A Hot Rodded 300hp VW Diesel Engine Hook To The Sled And Pull!
When the word “Outlaw” gets thrown into any sort of motorsports competition, things always get better. Seriously. World of Outlaws? Bad ass. Outlaw 10.5 racing? Was bad ass. Outlaw Garden...
Theoretical Fun: How The Bloodhound LSR Car Would Do In A Drag Race Against An F1 Car, A Bugatti, and A Normal Road Car
We’re a few weeks into this whole lockdown deal and one of the impressive things that’s happened is that people in the automotive media world have gotten pretty freaking creative on how...
QuarantinePiece Theater: BURNOUT – This 1979 Drag Racing Movie Is So Awful It Rules
I have to sincerely thank champion NHRA top alcohol dragster crew chief Adam Rhodes for the tip to a movie that I had never heard of let alone seen. The name of the movie is Burnout and it was...
The Story Of Dieselgate: An In-Depth Look At How Volkswagen’s Hot Air Came Back To Choke Them
In September 2015, we shared with you the report that was flying around the world with supersonic speed: Volkswagen had somehow managed to go past the Takata airbag recall by a mile. After some...
NHRA Insider Podcast: Bob Frey and Jon Lundberg Talk About Their Lives and Careers In Drag Racing – Dave Mac Tribute As Well!
This is a pretty special episode of the NHRA Insider Podcast. Why? The guests are Bob Frey and Jon Lundberg two of drag racing’s greatest announcers. The guys talk about their lives in the...
Watch An 88-Year Old Man Drive A 1926 Dodge Brothers Touring Car He Bought When He Was 16 For The First Time Since The 1950s!
Everything about this video is awesome and exactly what we all need as we’re stuck inside waiting this virus deal out. Why? Well we have good people in the form of the Fat Fender Garage guys....
