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Category Archive: FUNNY STUFF, Videos

Been Caught Hoonin’: This Aussie Shows Why You Should Keep It On The Track…Twice!

Didn’t I just bring up the subject of that moment you realized that you were flat-out busted by a cop? It’s a sinking feeling when you do it, but if you want to see the most busted driver...

Crash And Burn: An Entire Year’s Worth Of Dirt Bike Wrecks From Enduro KeX!

If you choose to hop onto a bike and go running through the woods, climbing up hills, and splashing through streams, sooner or later you will crash. It’s not a matter of if, it’s a matter...

Hydraulic Roller Or Solid Lifter…Which Cam Works Out Better? Engine Masters Flogs The Dyno To Get The Answer!

This is a fun comparison: which camshaft will perform better in a Chevrolet 454 that is wicked up to hang easily in the 600 horsepower range and provide the power you crave? On one hand, you have a...

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Add Cylinders And Go: Check Out This LS-Based V-12 Engine On The Dyno!

In 1966 the last General Motors-built twelve cylinder engine, the famous 702ci “Twin Six”. Based upon the GMC V6 family of engines, the Twin Six utilized a good amount of parts from the...

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Morning Symphony: A Fine Collection Of Skids From Gazzanats – How Long Can You Keep The Rubber Burning?

Have you ever just wanted to stop everything that you were doing and just scream as loud as you possibly can, for as long as you possibly can, in the hopes that once you are done you will feel much...

Morning Symphony: A Solid Hour Of Australian Cruising From Gazzanats!

Australia. Land of unique animals, vast empty areas, an entire state where there is effectively no speed limit (as we Yanks understand it, anyways) and some of the most stringent, panic-driven...

Morning Symphony: Rally Cars Cutting Loose At Monza – Tire Smoke And Turbos Are A Wonderful Thing!

Decry burnouts and stunts that turn tires to vapor as wasteful all you want to…some days, it’s the only sort of thing that will scratch the itch every gearhead I know gets every once in a...

Twin-Turbos, The Curb Weight Of A Feather, And Room To Run: This SuperLite SLC Kit Car Stomps!

I’ll be straight-up honest: the reason that I wanted to show off this SuperLite SLC running at the WannaGoFast event in Georgia has nothing to do with what the car is. That’s a pretty...

Regular Car Of The Past Review: A Look Back At The 1960 Ford Falcon (Before Mr. Regular Started Wrenching On It!)

“Compact” had a connotation in 1960. If you owned a “compact” car you were bucking the long, low and wide trend that had been all the rage in Detroit for at least a decade....

Handbuilt By A 17-Year-Old, Driven More Than It Should Have Ever Been And Restored By Everybody’s Favorite Rich Car Guy: The 1931 Shotwell!

Here’s a fun question: what were you doing when you were seventeen years old? Give it some thought. I’ll speak for myself: I was already moved out on my own, with a car and a full-time...

Fun At The Track And Just A Little Bit Of A Concussion: Carmageddon Show’s Crash Compilation!

It takes guts to strap yourself into a car, fully intending on crashing it. You risk life, limb, mental capacity and more, but for a professional stunt driver, that’s just another paycheck to...

Gear Banging Insanty in a 1980s Era Turbocharged F1 Car – Amazing Footage

Today’s F1 drivers use paddle shifters and have steering wheels in their cars with more buttons and functions than a lap top. Back in the 1980s though, things were different. The driver still...

Video: Watch The Biggest And Baddest Ford Production V8 Of All Time Shoot Fire And Sound Pissed! 1100ci!

That’s right, the biggest and baddest ass production Ford built V8 in the company’s long history was an 1100ci, all alumimum, dual overhead cam, 32-valve piece that made over 1,000 lb/ft...

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Sunday Movie Day: Cledus Snow Saves The Day In His Big Rig At The End Of Smokey And The Bandit I

In a recent conversation with friends, we talked about how Smokey and the Bandit may have become the largest grossing movie of 1977 had it not run into another small sci-fi flick with the title of...

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