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Category Archive: MISC, Videos

Roadkill VS Gas Monkey Garage? Yes, This Is Happening And Richard Rawlings (Profanely) Says So

If you have been paying attention to the automotive social media world recently you may have seen the series of Tweets and FB postings that have been volleyed back and forth...

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This 1,036hp Toyota Supra Is Legitimately Nasty, Well Engineered And Violent – 780RWHP On The Safe Tune!

Do not see “Supra”, think “Fast and the Furious”, and skip to the next story…you will miss out on one hell of a build. From the front, it looks like most any other...

Getting To Play With Hurst’s 500hp Small-Block Stroker 1967 Plymouth Barracuda Is Next To Impossible…Unless You Are Jay Leno

I have a special place in my heart for a black-and-gold second generation Plymouth Barracuda, and it’s purely because of Bob Riggle’s Hemi Under Glass wheelstander. That car is the only...

More Formula Offroad Mishaps – Tons Of Horsepower Can’t Save You Once You Start To Roll

Formula Offroad, the certifiably insane off-road sport found in the Scandinavian countries, just might be the only thing that could cause Lohnes to walk away from a passenger seat ride (something...

Watch An Old Minneapolis Moline Pulling Tractor Launch Parts And Completely Puke Its Guts Out During A Pull!

When the announcer has to start asking if anyone in the crowd was hit by “shrapnel” from an exploding engine at a tractor pull you know it is a good one. While this engine failure lacks...

One Week’s Worth Of Motorsports Crashes! From Goodwood To Gravel Rallies And More, It Is All Here!

Crashing is a part of racing, and with today’s technology, when a fender gets wrinkled or a car goes airborne, there’s usually a spectator standing nearby with a smartphone ready to...

Reaction Video! Watch As A Couple Of Gearheads From Isreal Meet Insanity Racing’s Jeep Grand Cherokee SRT-8!

The side of me with the twisted humor loves these reaction videos: plant some sucker into the passenger seat of a car that has unholy amounts of power and train a camera onto their face. Then take...

Intake Tech: Edelbrock Drops The Knowledge On Single VS Dual Plane, What May Be Best For You

While we all fantasize about building some full-kill engine that can swallow all of the competition whole, ordering your parts by using the “bottom of the page” method of decision making...

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Fred Williams Gets To Take A Brand-New Toyota Tundra TRD Pro On An Off-Roading Road Trip Vacation That Anyone Can Do!

Ok, so you might not get the keys to a $44,000 Toyota Tundra TRD Pro to tool around in, and yes, this episode of Dirt Every Day is mostly a Toyota advertisement. Fine, but if it is going to be an...

How Are People Allowed To Be This Close To A Rally Stage? This Video Shows Just How Insanely Close Rally Spectators Really Are

It is sincerely amazing that we don’t hear about rally racing spectators getting mowed down every week, considering how close spectators tend to get to the cars, especially in locations around...

Regular Car Reviews Get To Drive A 1974 Plymouth Scamp And He Refers To It As Chrysler’s Low-Water Mark…What?

I’m not a Mopar fanboy. Let’s get that straight now. And I’m certainly not a big fan of A-bodies. I’ve always thought that they were nothing more than basic transportation...

Burnout Monday: Our Favorite NASCAR-Engined Mopar From Down Under Hazes Out Brashernats Sydney!

Are your ears still ringing from all of the explosions of the Fourth of July? Are you still cleaning up all of the firecracker debris, or looking for the duds that didn’t go off? Maybe you just...

Watching An M1 Abrams Tank Extract Itself From A Mud Pit Is Hilarious For Everyone Except The Driver

The bigger they are, the faster they sink to the bottom and the harder it is to free the damn thing from the mud. And they don’t get much bigger than a 68-ton M1A2 Abrams battle tank, which are...

A Top Speed Run In A Yugo? Watch As The Guys From Edmunds.com Take Their Lives Into Their Own Hands!

(Photo: Edmunds.com) The automotive punchline of the 1980s: Yugo. A car that has more in common with a large USPS drop-box than it did with the rest of the automotive world. Two-digit horsepower...