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Big-Block Delete: Finnegan’s Ramp Truck Loses It’s 454 For A 12-Valve Cummins From An Air Force Tug Dodge!

It isn’t everyday that you can understand someone yanking the 454 out of a perfectly good square-body GM truck. Besides the immediate “but…big-block!” argument, there’s...

Mud-Romping! Check Out The Fun You Could Have Had At Mud Fest 2018 In Oregon!

I don’t mind technical rock crawling and I had a blast running down desert trails a couple of weeks ago, but when it comes to off-roading, my heart is still stuck on mudding. The great...

Dad, Meet My Mistress: Nothing Quite Like Scaring The Wits Out Of The Old Man, Is There?

It should probably be considered a blessing that my dad didn’t get to see the laundry list of stupid things that I’ve done with vehicles over my lifetime. He saw enough in just a couple...

The Last Gasps Of Winter At Goodwood’s 76th Members Meeting Didn’t Stop The Cars From Coming Out! Listen To The Legends Here!

With temperatures unseasonably cold over the United Kingdom and the threat of snow always just around the corner, it is impressive that Goodwood’s 76th Members Meeting event went down at all....

Blowing Off Steam: Why Cut A Volvo In Half? To Have Fun…Why Else?

Every now and then, I get to the point where I just need to blow off some steam. I’ve done it, you’ve done it, we’ve all done it. Stress relief is a healthy thing, and it never...

The Eye-Opening Experiences: Check Out This Collection Of Psycho Rides From Sydney Jamboree 2018!

If it was a perfect world, everybody would line up, make a good burnout, back up, stage, and go straight down the track as fast as they can at the strip. There would be no oildowns, no wall-to-wall...

The Cure For A Bad Day: Banger Racing At It’s Most Violent…European Cars Against A Cadillac Limo!

The only way you know what is good is to experience the bad. That’s something that was instilled in me years ago. If you only knew good, how would you know what “good” really was?...

Watch The Insane Robert Hight, Matt Hagan Double Explosion Run From The 2018 NHRA Gatornationals – Both Walked Away

This is something that even the most salty, grizzled, drag racing veterans at the Gatornationals had never seen before. Two funny cars exploding on the same run within a second of each other. Below...

Big Vicky: Check Out This Lifted, Gambler-Tested Crown Victoria!

Events like the Gambler 500 series of events and the LeMons Rallies have encouraged people to just get their beaters up and running well enough to drive and enjoy, and then encourages the owners to...

Showstopper: Michael Britt’s Monte Carlo Came Out Swinging At Shut Up And Race!

Michael Britt’s 1982 Chevrolet Monte Carlo isn’t a race-only machine. And it’s not a recent build, though looking at it, you’d swear it was. He’s had the car since the...

Morning Symphony: The Mighty Roar Of The Upper Crust Race Car, The Bentley Continental GT3

Unless it’s kissed a concrete wall head-on at speed, anything with the Bentley badge is meant to be two things: sporty and expensive with a capital “F”. From the days of the 4 1/2...

These Motocross Riders Are Insane – Like Rockbouncers, But Without The Rollcage!

Rockbouncers just might be the most unhinged, insane form of off-roading. Purpose-built tube-frame monstrosities packing four-digit horsepower levels, flying up hills and over just about everything...

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Morning Symphony: An Oldsmobile Cutlass Supreme That’s All About The Launch

Outside of my weird Mopars, the next prolific vehicle type I’ve got in my back catalog is the GM G-body. I’ve owned one Monte Carlo SS, two 1979 Cutlasses, and have worked on various...

Over 200 Horsepower Per Cylinder: Scott Forrester’s Holden Gemini Runs A World-Class Four-Banger!

In 1957, Chevrolet hit the goal of one horsepower per cubic inch from their 283ci V8 by way of fuel injection. Back then, that was a hell of a goal to achieve. But that was over sixty years...

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