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Category Archive: RACING & ACTION, Videos

LS Fest 2015 Preview: A Collection Of Burnouts From Last Year!

We are only two days away from the kickoff of LS Fest in Bowling Green. One city, two tracks and thousands of gearheads will all come together to celebrate an engine. We will see Fords, Nissans,...

Toyota Celebrates The 1,000,000th Hilux Built In South Africa By Hot-Rodding One! Forget The Diesel, Jam In A V8!

We love it when manufacturers do an in-house hot rod, and oddly enough it is Toyota who, for the second time in nearly a year, who have shocked us with something we totally dig. First was last...

Check Out This Time-Lapse Video Of The Restoration Of The 1 Millionth Corvette – From Sinkhole To Stunner!

Once the team from the National Corvette Museum had extracted all of the Corvettes that were swallowed up by the sinkhole, the task began of determining what cars would and would not be restored. The...

Aussie Burnout Oddity: A Rambler Hornet Having A Go On The Skidpad!

If you have been following any kind of Aussie automotive news we’ve put up, you’ve seen the local flavor. Ford Falcons, Holden Toranas and Monaros, Valiants, and imports of both the JDM...

This Polaris RZR’s Backflip Antics At Dunefest 2015 Are A Hit…And A Miss…And A Rollover….

The backflip. There is something about it that awesome as a spectator and terrifying as all hell for the one in the middle of the action. On the ground, it’s a graceful movement. In reality,...

Diesel Swap! Hot Rod Garage Takes A 12V Cummins And Jams It Into A Dodge D200

Making the kind of power with an oil-burner that would have been unbelievable years ago is stupid-easy nowadays, and while the diesel community have the lines drawn in the dirt, for us, our choice...

Check Out This Huge Remote-Controlled MH-53 Pave Low Helicopter – You’d Swear It Was Real

In a past life, I was an Army helicopter technician, and I worked closely with other military branches, units, and helicopter crews from other countries. Out of all of the stories I gained in those...

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Joe Rogan Tosses The Keys To His Pure Vision-built 1965 Corvette Restomod To Jay Leno – Supercharger Whine For Days!

Joe Rogan…host of Fear Factor, UFC commentator, comic, martial artist, and apparently a car nut. Who knew? Rogan is the owner of this beautiful 1965 Chevrolet Corvette Sting Ray roadster, and...

Check Out This Aerial Footage Of A Huge Roll At Rally Zlin…The Roll Cage Works!

The amount of engineering that goes into roll cages for racing vehicle is staggering, and it all boils down to the idea that no matter what happens, the human or humans that are inside of the...

Burnout Mondays: The “Trophy LTD” Crown Victoria Prerunner Hazes Them Off

John Baker’s 1990 Ford LTD Crown Victoria prerunner is the kind of wrong that is oh, so right in our eyes. The GM-powered Ford was converted into full desert-runner form after Baker had pretty...

This Lamborghini Gallardo Superleggera Set A World Speed Record In A Half-Mile: 234.8 MPH!

Do you see those wide eyes in that helmet? They belong to Gidi Chamdi, a man who is, by his own admission later on, scared out of his head but on a mission. You see, Gidi wants to break a speed...

The Bugatti EB110 SS: The Forgotten Supercar That Has Somehow Aged Very Well

When the Bugatti EB110 first appeared in 1991, I couldn’t stomach it’s looks. I was eight years old, too, and I did not know about things like it’s four-wheel-drive system,...

This Restomodded Mazda RX-3 Is A Fun Little Screamer! Good Looks And That Rotary Noise…

Mazda’s RX-3 is like the early Toyota Celica: they look like a miniaturized Japanese take on an American muscle car. Powered by the 12A 1.2L Wankel rotary engine, they were the most popular...

And Now It’s Time For A Junkyard Trip With Your Host, Mr. Regular! Will He Find A New Powertrain For His Falcon?

In case you were unaware, Mr. Regular of Regular Car Reviews bought himself a 1960 Ford Falcon. It’s a nice car, but when he tried to drive the Falcon from Tennessee to…well, wherever in...