Category Archive: FUNNY STUFF, Videos
Great Idea Office, Nitrous Division: Cleetus And Crew Hit The Dyno With The Auction Corvette
Credit to Cleetus for making lemonade out of lemons here. We told you last week about how, in a moment of full impulse, he bought a C6 Corvette that had taken a mild tap up front from an auction for...
Dick LaHaie Has Died At Age 76 – Relive A Top Fuel Win With He and Kim From 1985 – A True Legend
He was one of drag racing’s true gentlemen. Dick LaHaie was a racer that it was nearly impossible to root against. He and his daughter Kim were sentimental favorites during their rise to top...
Racing Action From King Of The Heap! Are $1,000 Crapcans Good At Racing?
Alright, I’m going to cop to a failure: I was planning on getting videos and much more photos from the first King of the Heap event of the year at NCM Motorsports Park. What ended up happening...
From Death To Demonic: This Chrysler 300C Went From An Insurance Total To A Six-Speed Ripper!
A couple of days ago I found video of a ProCharged Chrysler 300C with a manual trans swap that had been built to race in Australia. The words “manual swap” attached to “Chrysler...
Morning Symphony: Giving The Turbochargers That Afterglow!
Aussie burnout contests are akin to a rock concert: you aren’t going there for any technical aspect, nor are you there to learn something. You’re there because loud noises, a crowd in a...
Takeoff Is Approved: 1/8th Mile Airport Runway Racing From Ballarat
If you go back into the early days of drag racing, you will find that World War II had a strong influence on the motorsport. Don’t just blankly stare the screen, it’s the truth: GIs who...
Look To The Sky: Free Life Films Shows Off The Wildest Rides Of 2018!
December is the start of many things: holiday music, wrapping paper hell, the time when your kids bring you lists of stuff that need to be decoded and checked to see what your budget will allow....
The Family Hot Rod: Petrolicious Tells The Story of A Spanish Racing Mini That Has A Legacy
People who don’t get cars or racing or competition or engineering or work tend to dismiss the rest of us and our obsession with the machines that we create, watch, operator, or observe....
Classic YouTube: The 1978 Ford LTD II, Sold By Ron Burgundy Himself
In the beginning, there was Fairlane. Fairlane begat Torino, Torino begat Elite, and Elite begat LTD II. Ford’s midsizer packed on the pounds almost in time with Elvis himself as the 1970s...
The Other Racing Long Car: Check Out This 1980s Film Of Jim Jet Nelson’s Jet Limo At Great Lakes Dragaway
With McTaggart showing us all the way to have big time fun with a germ infested, cast aside, potential rolling meth lab in the form of his Cadillac limo, it triggered a memory about another racing...
This Compilation of 1990s Monster Truck Crashes Captures The Wildest Era Of Monster Truck Competition
The other day I posted a photo on my Instagram account (@BrianLohnes) of an old monster truck and one of the responses it got was a guy saying, “They actually raced these?” At first I was...
This ProCharged, Manual-Swapped Chrysler 300C’s Hillclimb Story Is Too Cool!
First off, I’m happy that I get to add another manual-swapped Chrysler to the list in my head. This car joins the V-10-swapped drift machine in the U.K., and both of the Chryslers that...
Unhinged: The Difference Between A Simple Project And Mechanical Hell With Boxes Of Parts
My first project car was my fourth car, a 1979 Chevrolet Caprice coupe. I was at the younger end of fifteen years old and I had this image in my head for how I wanted the car to look, act and feel....
