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Category Archive: AMC, TECH, Videos

This Guy Wants To Hemi-Swap This AMC Hornet, But First Wants To Pump Nitrous Through It…Finnegan Can Help With That!

It’s a faded green American Motors project in Finnegan’s garage…but calm down, it’s not the infamous Gremmie. No, this is a 1972 AMC Hornet Sportabout wagon, chock full of...

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The ETL Overland 5.7 LMTV RV: Camp Out Wherever You Feel Like Parking For The Night!

I’ve made no bones about my love for the LMTV series of military vehicles…after all, for years, they were what I relied on while I was serving. They might look tall and awkward, but trust...

EPIC Engine Failure Video: Blowing Up A GM 216 Straight Six For Fun. Throws Rods, Catches Fire!

This video is so epically bad ass that we watched it multiple times, and so will you. It’s awesome. The little GM Straight Six was running at wide open for several minutes before the video...

Crash And Burn: This Mud Racer Went Over Two Guardrails And A Fence After Losing Control

The waiver form you sign when you go to a track might as well be the “terms and conditions” you read when you go to download an update for a video game: instead of clicking the box and...

Roadkill! Chasing Wheelstanding Glory With A Rear-Engined Stubby Bob!

At the start of the adventure that is Roadkill, the guys bought a Pontiac Catalina that would best qualify as a “standard beater”, drove it back to California on a budget when...

See Rocky Mountain Race Week From 1320Video’s Perspective!

If you thought a week’s worth of good, competitive drag racing was going to be missed by the 1320Video crew, you were mistaken. Chad isn’t the only tireless worker that has been running...

CLOSE CALL! Doug Cline Just Barely Misses A Deer On Rocky Mountain Race Week Drive!

When we say that anything can happen on Rocky Mountain Race Week, we mean it. Case in point: during a section of the drive earlier tonight, as the cars were driving along through fields, Doug Cline...

Sorry, But There Is Not One Pic-A-Nic Basket In That Subaru Wagon, Yogi!

It is never a good day when you come out to your car and find something occupying it that you didn’t leave in there in the first place. For the owner of this Subaru Outback, that...

MORE: MISC, Videos

Question Of The Day: Where Is The Line Between Hating And Liking A Car?

Do you remember making fun of Geo Metros? How about AMC Gremlins? Maybe you were the guy who picked on the kid who drove a Mopar to school way back when because that was just a little bit weird....

Take A Closer Look At The Lancia Delta S4 – Utter Insanity By Any True Gearhead’s Definition

Five hundred horsepower, courtesy of a sixteen valve, four-cylinder engine that sports both a supercharger and a turbocharger, sitting in thimble of the car. A full steel tubular space frame, draped...

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BOOM! The Black Hawk Firehawk Finds The Nitrous Oxide Limit For An LS1 At Ozarks Raceway Park!

“Too much power…did not enjoy.” That brief but accurate summary of what happened to Joe Hunt’s Pontiac Firehawk doesn’t do justice to what really happened. The Firehawk,...

Dropping Jaws 101: Watch The Reactions This Kid Got When He Drove His Viper To School For The First Time!

This is probably one of the most common high-school fantasies out there that doesn’t involve a cheerleader or the captain of the football team: in a parking lot full of hand-me-down cars, used...

Jay Leno Breaks Out Another One Out Of His Collection, This Time A 1961 Chrysler 300G!

When did the muscle car appear? 1949? Mid-fifties? 1964? While the standard recipe of mid-size body with biggest motor possible was created by John Z. DeLorean and his Pontiac GTO, truth be told that...

MORE: MOPAR, Videos

Take Your Sides, It’s The Battle Of The 408 Cubic Inch Small Block Strokers! Ford Versus Mopar!

There’s nothing quite like a head-to-head comparison between two manufacturers to stir up the masses, is there? The fastest way to get sure-fire results in the comments section of a video that...