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Category Archive: FORD, FUNNY STUFF, Videos

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...

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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,...

Morning Symphony: The Top Ten Machines Laying Down Rubber In The Open Class At Gazzanats!

A haze in the air that can be seen for miles around, the hints of vulcanized rubber and racing gas, and the cheering of an audience that sounds well entertained…yep, it’s another burnout...

Would You Rather, Strange Australian Burnout Machine Edition! Which Badass Old Merc Floats Your Boat?

The normal Aussie burnout machine is usually one of two makes: it’s either a Ford of Australia product, or it’s General Motors’ Australian division, Holden. It never fails…you...

Driving A Fully-Restored (Smog Pump And All!) 1969 Ford Mustang Boss 429 – Is It As Rowdy As Legend Says?

It’s considered one of the rarest muscle cars out there, is certainly one of the more valuable ones, and has one of the more interesting creation stories. The Ford Mustang Boss 429 isn’t...

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More Dare To Be Different: This 1988 Ford Thunderbird Is Testament To A Vision, A Unique Ride, A Budget And Some Talent!

A quick story: for Christmas one year, my brother and I got remote-controlled New Bright cars. I’m not 100% what he had…I think his was a third-gen Firebird because he missed our...

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Horrifying Video: In-Car Video Of The Scariest Race Car Blaze We Have Ever Seen – DRIVER ESCAPES OK

Of all the race car videos we have ever posted before that involved fire, this one takes the cake for heart stopping terror. Why? Well as you’ll see the driver is piloting some sort of circle...

Morning Symphony: “Bloky”, The NASCAR-Powered Valiant, Performing Yet Another Ear-Splitting Show!

I don’t care how many times I see footage of this green Valiant Regal in action…I love it. I love the fact that it doesn’t have a massive, honkin’ blower sticking up out of...

Roadkill! The Olds-Powered, Rear-Engined Mazdarati Hits Drag Weekend In The Search For 10-Seconds…Or More Dry-Sweep…Whatever!

It’s back….the Olds 455-powered Mazda REPU that the dynamic duo of Roadkill have dubbed “Mazdarati” has returned, and this time they have a goal: to get the 10-second timeslip...

Classic YouTube: Vaughn Gittin, Jr.’s WFO Drifting At Road America In 2010

Many writers like to wax poetic about drifting. They liken it to driving art: it’s completely unnecessary, but there is a certain skill to it that not everybody has, and you can’t deny...