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Category Archive: ENGINES, Videos

Dyno Video: Watch A Brutal 650ci Hemi Pulling Truck Engine Scream To The Moon On The Pump!

Goodwin Competition Race Engines is a big Wisconsin outfit that builds big power for guys in drag racing, off road racing, truck pulling, and virtually anything else that requires blunt force trauma...

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Classic YouTube: The Car And Track Test Of The AMC Gremlin for 1971 – Nice Car Up Front, Lost Interest In The Back!

We’ve shown you many clips of Car and Track, complete with the iron of old that people pay good money for nowadays and the level-headed, straight-talking Bud Lindemann giving you the...

Check Out This Behind-The-Scenes Look At How The Actors Were Trained To Drive For The Movie “Baby Driver”!

Ok, Jalopnik got a good one here. “Baby Driver”, once you choke down the name of the flick, looks like it’s going to at least have a couple of good car chases…the movie is,...

Running a Flathead V8 Without a Cylinder Head!

This video cracked us up and had us pressing play multiple times just to gawk. It starts with a closeup shot of a running Ford flathead V8 that sounds as though it has a big time miss. As the camera...

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Classic YouTube: Burning The Hides Off Of A Clean ’57 Plymouth!

Lawn chairs? 1960s pop music? Oh, great…a lawn show. Every once in a while it’s nice to check one out, especially when you haven’t seen the same cars twenty times beforehand, but...

Classic YouTube: The AMC Hornet X Jump From “The Man With The Golden Gun”

On May 23, 2017, Sir Roger Moore passed on at the age of 89. An actor, a World War II veteran, and a humanitarian, Moore might best be remembered for his time spent in the role of the most famous spy...

Timeless, Gorgeous, And Rare: Petrolicious Checks Out This Stunning BMW 850CSi

Meet one of my guilty pleasures, the BMW 8-series. Whether you are a fan of anything Bavarian Motor Works has ever cranked out or not, you have to hand it to them…there’s a lot of people...

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North American Touring Car Championship Racing From Lime Rock In 1996! Wheel-To-Missing-Wheel Action!

The North American Touring Car Championship series was a guilty pleasure of mine growing up. Family sedans I saw by the hundreds, slammed to the ground, looking like remote-control racers and howling...

We Went On The Internet, And Found A 604ci Rear-Engined Third-Gen Firebird That Is Mimicking A Ferrari!

In the world of internet meme jokes, “That’s enough Internet for one day” means that you’ve finally come across something so surprising and shocking that you feel the need to...

Watch a Blown, Dual Carb’d, Ardun Headed Flattie Grunt Out 450+ Horsepower on the Dyno

We were chatting up a gearhead buddy recently who is into the old stuff…like the real old stuff. This dude has real vintage parts like a Kong ignition,a pile of ancient Thicksun intake...

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Awesome Historic Drag Video: Tommy Ivo Squares Off Against the Green Mamba Jet Car at Houston International Speedway

Boy, this is a killer video! Shot in 1968 at Houston International Speedway, it shows Tommy Ivo in his fuel dragster taking on Doug Rose and the Green Mamba jet dragster. The coolest part is that...

This YouTuber Had “The Cheapest AMG Mercedes” Stolen And Recovered In A Week – Check Out His Story!

Thieves suck. Period. Doesn’t matter what they took, doesn’t matter why they took it. Though, it must be said: stealing an Internet famous Mercedes in a rare color from a guy who knows...

This Collection Of Australian Burnout Carnage Has It All: Fire, Wrecked Metal, And Dead Engines!

You know what’s safe? Sitting still holding a stuffed animal for comfort. You know what isn’t safe? Australian burnout contests. Nothing says “injury waiver” quite like...

Vintage Drag Videos: Topeka’s Kaw Valley Dragway Circa The Early 1960s

Today the Topeka, Kansas area has the sprawling Heartland Park racing facility to take care of its need for speed, but that hasn’t always been the case. Before that huge complex became a...