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The Ultimate Pucker Moment: The Eckmann/Harnagel Mid-Air Incident At The Reno Air Races
The Reno Air Races have a legacy, and it’s not quite tied to the unbelievable speed in which pilots do their best to whip planes around a course. No, the legacy has more to do with safety...
It’s Not Just The Cage: How Seam Welding A Unibody Car Can Significantly Strengthen The Entire Chassis
Modern road race, rally, and drag race cars, that are based on any new unibody chassis will see significant torsional strength improvements by seam welding them. After all, all newer cars are built...
Cardboard Template Metal Fabrication Just Got Easier And Cheaper! Ramboard To The Rescue!
(We used screen captures from Project Binky videos to show their use of cardboard aided drafting as examples.) Car builders often joke about using CAD, Cardboard Aided Design, to build hot rods,...
Classic YouTube: Buick’s Identity Crisis Of About 1989 – RWD Reatta And Regal, Turbo Six Electra Wagon?
Another day of my sickness over Buick Reattas has led me to this gem from MotorWeek, one that showcased just how much of an identity crisis that Buick was having with itself. Buick, much like Mercury...
Drive Angry: Competitive Racing From The Land Of Touring Cars!
If you were to compare racing to fighting styles, drag racing is like a one-on-one boxing match. Two fighters enter, one leaves, and generally, you know how it’s going to work out. The NHRA is...
LIVE Half Mile Racing From New Orleans: 200 MPH Street Cars?
The number of half mile and mile land speed races going on around the country just keeps growing. But seeing this kind of racing live usually requires you to actually go to one of the races in...
The Grimy Climb: Racing For The Cash On A Muddy Hill In Tennessee
The dry gravel and sand that I encountered at Gravelrama earlier this year might have been tricky to handle, but a hill composed of slimy thin mud, chunky, dusty earth underneath the slime, tree...
Classic YouTube: The Lap 148 Battle During The 2007 Bathurst Race Was One For The Books!
Rain falling on the track in certain areas, many cars on slicks, and everybody wanting to drive the front splitter square up the rear bumper of the guy in front of ’em. It’s Australian...
If You’re Gonna Break Stuff, Break It As Bad As Cleetus Broke The Rearend!
How many times have you found the weak link in your vehicle the good old-fashioned way? Let’s see…I shattered three U-joints in my old four-speed Diplomat, roasted a transmission out of...
Gutsy Driving Video: Here Are The Top Five Passes From The 2018 Goodwood Revival
The most exciting move in racing is the pass. The ability to out wit, out muscle, or simply out drive your opponent is an awesome spectacle to watch and it has kept racing fans glued to their seats...
Morning Symphony: The Burnout Contest From LS Fest East 2018!
We brought you photographs from the burnout contest from LS Fest East 2018, but let’s face facts: no photograph is ever going to compare to seeing the madness in action while hearing the...
Video: How Stevie Fast Jackson Won The 2018 NHRA US Nationals – An Amazingly Improbable Victory
It was ugly. It was worse than ugly. This was embarrassing. Stevie Fast Jackson was cruising toward his third DNQ in a row as part of the E3 Spark Plugs NHRA Pro Mod Series. This was after building...
Turn 6, The Car Crusher: Some Of The Strongest Impacts From Sandown Raceway’s Infamous Corner
Sandown Raceway in Melbourne, Victoria is effectively two drag strips connected by a few corners. You’d think that for a road racer, that’d be heaven. Here’s the truth, though: when...
