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Classic YouTube: The First Recorded Automobile Racing Incident? Louis Chevrolet’s 1919 Fire At Coney Island

The man whose name is one of the most famous in the world thanks to it’s associations with a brand of automobiles was more racer and engineer than he ever was a “car company”...

Watch Robert Hight’s Crazed Trip Into The Net At The 2017 NHRA World Finals

Robert Hight enters the 2018 NHRA World Finals as the second runner in the fuel funny car points chase. If you think that worries him one bit, you missed the memo on what he did in 2017. The murky...

Seems Legit: Watch This Wheel Horse With a CBR 1000 Motor Run 12s At Santa Pod

Now THIS is awesome. A a proud former Wheel Horse owner, I can tell you that they are great little tractors that can do a myriad of jobs around the house but I can also tell you that a fast walk is...

Morning Symphony: One Beefy Biscayne – All Guts, Glory Comes Naturally

Have you ever looked at a car and without hearing it or seeing it in action, you simply know that you’re looking at something absolutely beastly? For some reason, the Chevrolets of the late...

Watch The 1980 NHRA World Finals From Ontario Motor Speedway Right Here – Top Fuel, Funny Car, and Pro Stock

The 1980 NHRA season was one for the books and the World Finals that year, held at the cavernous Ontario Motor Speedway was a real hum dinger of a drag race. Coming into the event the top fuel race...

Tough Landing Video: Watch Mike Freeman’s Ultra Street Mustang Have A Concrete Meeting At No Mercy 9

Radial tire drag racing is an exciting thing for many, many reasons. The performances are one, the monster wheelies, are another, and the unpredictability is a strong one as well. The fact is that in...

Wild Drag Racing Video: This Pass From The Fall Coffeyville Street Drags Event Is Nuts

We love the Coffeyville Street Drags. The events in the small town happen with the blessing and support of the local government and they have started to draw out some of the wildest cars in the...

Ever Want To See A Food Truck On A Road Course? Well, Here You Go!

Ah, the food truck. A set of headlights, a set of taillights, and in between the kind of delicious bites that my doctors would have fits over. Name it, you can find a food truck of it. Mexican food,...

Over 1,200 Horsepower In A Car Most People Threw Away! This AWD 4G63 Colt Is Violent!

Some cars earned their “throwaway car” status by being a crappy car. Others simply had that stigma attached from the word “go”. In the case of the car that originated as the...

Vintage NHRA Video: The 1993 Winston Finals At A Revamped Pomona Were A Blast

Auto Club Raceway Pomona which was known in 1993 as Pomona Raceway stands as one of the great pillars of drag racing in the USA. Yes, the track’s usage is severely limited because of how the...

Nitro-Splosion Video: Watch A Blown, Fuel Burning Big Block Explode With Fury At The Top End

There’s no more efficient way to level an engine than using high volumes of nitromethane fuel. Seriously, nothing else will do the job as properly in terms of speed and absolutely destruction...

Double-Time: A 12-Second HMMWV That Can Shock Like None Other On The Strip

Critical of the AM General HMMWV? Yep, I sure am. I had to deal with these machines for the duration of my time in the Army, and while I’ll sing praises about how this super-size rig can...

The Barra-Powered Bedford Van Is Alive! Catch Up On The Skid Factory’s Latest Installment Here!

What would make a well-worn Vauxhall-designed van palatable? Power. That’s just about the only answer that works in this regard. When in doubt, you add power and if you can add reliability,...

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This Insane, Flame-Throwing Russian Hot Rod Is Proof That Cars Are The Universal Language

We have to thank the ever vigilant Matt Cramer of AMP EFI for pointing us onto this awesome video from Russia that shows one of the weirder hot rods we have seen in a long, long time. Basically what...