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Category Archive: HISTORIC, Videos

Best of BS 2016: See How A Student Crew Landed A B-58 Hustler With Damaged Landing Gear After Fourteen Hours In The Air!

If there is one thing that will put the truest icy spike of fear into your spine, it is when something breaks on the aircraft you are operating. I once had the cable that operates the rudder on a...

Best of BS 2016: Remote-Controlled Toyota Hilux Drives Underwater, Under The Ice!

  A lesson I learned as a kid playing with electric-powered remote-controlled cars: electrical components plus water and mud equals shortened lifespan of the remote-controlled vehicle…and...

Hot Rod Garage Jams A Supercharged Mill Into The Crusher Camaro – 700+ Wheel Horsepower!

It only seems like yesterday that the Crusher Camaro, that other bright yellow GM product that has been in the magazines forever, was getting a new engine courtesy of Mast Motorsports. In fact, it...

More High-Powered Street Machines From Sweden – Check Out The Action From The Birka Cup!

The machines that prowl the motorways of Sweden are legendary, and the scenario behind races like the Birka Cup show why no-prep racing and street racing have the following that they do. Birka Cup is...

This 1967 Ford Fairlane 500 Sedan Is A Great Take On A Dirty Moonshine Car! Check This Thing Out!

It’s visually rough, partially cooked, plenty rusty and it is freaking awesome. I don’t care that it’s a four-door, that most of the car is “young secretary” blue, or...

MORE: FORD, Videos

Morning Symphony: Footage From The 2016 World Stratos Meeting – Celebrating The Legend!

It’s the little Italian wedge that could. Packing 2.4 liters of Ferrari Dino V6 that could possibly make better noise than a passionate Italian themselves, weighing in at just about a ton (a...

Watch As Friends And Fellow Racers Pay Tribute To One Of Their Own At Shakespeare County Raceway

You often hear and see racers talk about people they know at the track as “a family”. We do it all the time here as well, but what does that mean to you? Are you just used to seeing...

MORE: MISC, Videos

Think Six-Cylinder Mustangs Are Worthless? This Pressurized, Barra Six-Powered Ford Mustang Might Change Your Mind!

It’s the golden rule of Mustang ownership: if it has a six-cylinder under the hood, just keep on walking, that’s not the one you want. Doesn’t really matter the year, doesn’t...

Can Your Mother Drift The Ford Focus RS? Carfection Set Out To Prove It’s Possible…

“It’s so easy your mom could do it.” That tagline is a bit cliché, if I must be honest. It’s 2016…and I know plenty of mothers who could run rings around plenty of...

Regular Car Reviews Takes A Look At The Cadillac XLR, The Almost-Corvette That Could Have Been Much More

An Army buddy of mine, Joe, a good friend, has two cars in his background that I got to enjoy due to his ownership: a 1993 Cadillac Eldorado and a 2001 or 2002 Chevrolet Corvette Z51. The Cadillac...

Leave It To A Comedian To Collect Gremmies – Jeff Dunham Brings Two Clean AMC Gremlins To Jay Leno’s Garage!

They are the butt of jokes and have been for years, but honestly, if you look at what American Motors was facing down in the early 1970s, the cars that they cranked out were actually genius. The...

MORE: AMC, Videos

Classic YouTube: Check Out This Vintage Footage Of A Corvair Owner’s Club Gymkhana Meet At Riverside International!

If Ralph Nader was to be believed, an event like a club meeting for Corvair owners at Riverside International Raceway Park in southern California should have ended in a mass of tangled, twisted...

The Ultimate Red Flag: Watch As This Burning Lotus 2-Eleven Roll Back Onto A Live Racetrack!

It’s a bad enough day when your track-only special car decides to commit suicide by conflagration in a spectacular show on the racecourse. Anthony Fournier is the unlucky owner of this...

The Revenge Of The Junkyard Mercedes! This Well-Abused E-Class Pays Back These Hoons!

I’m of the mindset that if the car is in the junkyard and is still running, then the kind of fun you see these guys having isn’t so bad. Thanks to a “connection” with a yard,...