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Old School Norwalk Video: Watch Eddie Harris Suffer A Bad Pro Mod Wreck At The IHRA World Nationals

The IHRA get credit for debuting the category during their 1990 season after flirting with it by running top sportsman quick eight shootouts during previous years. The new heads-up eliminator was as...

Classic YouTube: Danny Bagwell’s 1999 Fire Sale Crash At Daytona

What happened, exactly? There isn’t much on record to the cause, but the aftermath was caught on video: during a Goody’s Dash race, Danny Bagwell’s Ford Escort ZX2 ricocheted off of...

Rhinoplasty, Stat: Foose Takes On The Challenge Of Making The Pontiac Aztek Pretty

In 1991, Homer Simpson learned he had a half-brother who ran a car company. The company wasn’t doing great, so they put Homer in charge of building the kind of car that he’d like to have...

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Classic YouTube: Selling Binders On The Television

In one advertisement, the voice hawking the International Harvester line of light-duty trucks notes that they are competing against two big companies. Um…small correction: they were competing...

Fantastic FE Video: Watch A 482ci All-Aluminum Ford FE Big Block Get Built From Beginning To End

There’s nothing like a good engine assembly video to make us happy and this is a GOOD engine assembly video. Our pal Jeff was at Prestige Motorsports when the shop was building a 482ci...

Beautifying The Buick: The Hagerty Straight Eight Redline Rebuild Heads For The Paint Booth

We have been following the saga of the Hagerty Redline Rebuild of a Buick straight eight engine for a while now. This thing has been a bear in more ways than one and at seemingly every turn the...

Good Or Bad? The Car And Track Tests Of The 1974 Olds Cutlass And Mercury Cougar!

Throughout the 1970s, the Oldsmobile Cutlass ruled all. One of the best-selling cars of the decade, the Cutlass was the right mix of comfy, sporty, durable, and that final dash of what they were...

Classic YouTube: Reviewing The 1982 Pontiac Firebird, Pre-KITT

Super-sleek, lighter on it’s feet and moments away from becoming a pop icon thanks to a television role, the new-for-1982 Pontiac Firebird lineup was needed. The second-gen car had done well...

Speedy Delivery! This Chevrolet C10 Flatbed Is Giving Us Really Good Ideas!

Work truck…yeah, I remember my first one. Later 1980s Dodge D-50 Ram 2wd, baby blue, stick shift, dead stock and had only been towed behind somebody’s recreational vehicle prior to the...

Historic Drag Racing Film: Awesomeness, Craziness, and Badness From Fremont In The 1960s and 1970s

This right here is some GOLD. If you love old drag racing footage you’ll be on the edge of your seat for the 10:00 duration of this video. Why? You are going to see famous cars, wild runs, guys...

Get That Lean Going: The Brutal Test Of The 1969 Chevrolet Impala 396!

Seeing how Car and Track skewered the 1974 Chevrolet Camaro Type LT during testing is one thing. The Camaro was at the end of any acceptable form of the Musclecar era, and had cowed into a soft, slow...

Watch Spencer Pigot’s Monster Wreck At The 2020 Indy 500 – This Was The Crash That Effectively Ended The Rae

The 104th running of the Indy 500 was apropos for the year 2020. It was bizarre with no fans, it was at times akin to a wrecking derby with a runtime of nearly 3.5 hours, and just when an incredible...

Christmas List Item #1: The 100 Horsepower Power Wheels Jeep In Action!

When I first started messing around with dirt bikes and ATVs at the age of ten, my goal wasn’t to emulate Travis Pastrana or Ricky Carmichael. I wanted to emulate every possible scene from the...

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BangShift Question Of The Day: Thoughts On The Opposed-Piston Design?

Take a look at the lead photo of this article. That is a still from a rendering of the Advanced Combat Engine, a collaborative effort between Cummins and Achates Power that is meant for military use...