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Category Archive: RACING & ACTION, Videos

This Dirt Bike Is GSXR 1000 Powered! And As You Might Expect, It Hauls Some Ass And Throws Dirt

Modern dirt bikes are fast. I’m talking wicked fast. With the advancement of 4-stroke engine technology in dirt bikes over the past decade or two the bikes have gotten insanely fast, even...

Conduire Énervé: The Drifting Charger Is Back For A Full Video In An Old Factory!

It takes solid stones to take on an icon like a 1960s Dodge Charger and go your own way with it. This is a car that Hollywood movie makers fantasize about when they lay their heads down to sleep at...

Not Quite The Holiday Road: Caravan Racing In Britain Is Pure Mayhem!

It’s not like regular short-track amateur racing is dangerous enough. Everybody is looking out for Number One and only Number One, and everybody else can either pack it up and go home or...

Father’s Day on Fuel: Tii Tharp’s Career Season In NHRA Mickey Thompson Top Fuel Harley Continues With Romp In Bristol

(Photo and video by Tim Hailey) – If you love the NHRA’s Mickey Thompson Top Fuel Harley Davidson class you certainly know the name Tii Tharp. This is a guy who has been soaked in nitro...

Morning Symphony: The Little Red Mud Monster Shaking The Trees In Michigan

Yeah, we know, everything’s all wrong for this Dodge to be a Little Red Express truck. It’s not a 1970s D-series, there are no chrome stacks, whatever. You have straight-up exhaust...

Classic YouTube: Check Out This 1961 Footage Of A Giro Boat – Helicopter, Meet John Boat!

At what point during the construction of this contraption did 26-year-old John Hofstetter bypass the question, “Is this a good idea?” Just look at the creation for a second: a tiny boat...

Watch Rod Millen Attack The 2002 Goodwood Festival of Speed Hillclimb In His Insane Pikes Peak Celica

Rod Millen is one of the baddest engineers and wheelmen who has ever strapped into a race car. The dude has won in all kinds of different equipment. In different formats, on different continents, and...

This 1966 Video Shows A Weird Form Of Stock Car Racing At Brands Hatch In England – A Yank Wins!

While America may have invented “stock car racing” the product has gone global over the decades with each area of the world and even separate countries putting their own spin on the...

A True Modern Sleeper: A Honda Insight That Can Worry Legit Supercars!

“Sleeper” just might be the most overused adjective to describe a car known. Everything is a sleeper nowadays. That 1993 Ford F-150? It’s a sleeper because it came with the 351...

Can You Imagine Owning A Car Over Fifty Years? Check Out The Case Of This 1934 Ford!

Until the last couple of years, I was a turn-and-burn kind of car owner. I went through cars within months, maybe a couple of years if I really liked them. Up until this year, the longest I had owned...

MORE: FORD, Videos

Morning Symphony: An Early Celica That Acts Like The Musclecar It Looks Like

Early Celicas look like stylists at Toyota were thrown pictures of the Ford Mustang circa 1968 and told, “Copy that.” Not a bad play, actually…the Celica’s popularity as a...

I’m Not Too Sure What A British Bedford Truck Is, Nor Do I Care Much About An RB25, But This Thing Smokes The Hides Awesomely!

I really want to build something to go out and do fun Australian style burnouts. Or I want to go to Australia and get behind the wheel of one and get my burnout on. Either way. But this particular...

Bending And Notching Tubing: Keys To A Successful Chassis Or Roll Cage Build

It seems like two of the top reasons people hesitate to build their own roll cage, roll bar, or tube chassis is because bending and notching tubing require specialized tools. This is why companies...

MORE: TECH, Videos

In The Feels: Kyle From 1320Video and Sketchy Vert Visit Fans For A Good Cause!

When my father passed on in 2005, I had just completed my first deployment in the Army and had started to make strides towards being a functional, independent human being. I was working on...