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Category Archive: CHEVY, RACING & ACTION, Videos

Haulin’ Ass Without Gas: Watch As The Genovation GXE Corvette Z06 Runs 186.8 MPH In A Mile!

The beauty of an all-electric powerplant is that all of the torque is available immediately. Hit the button and whatever the number is hits the drive wheels right now. Cars like the “White...

Freiburger And Dulcich Rip Apart A Mercury Cougar’s 351 In The Pilot Episode For “Roadkill Garage”!

Can you rip out an engine after work on Friday, rebuild it in over the course of the weekend, and dump it back into the car so that you can drive the car to work on Monday morning? That’s the...

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Video: Forty Two Years Ago The Most Spectacular Fire In The History Of Dirt Track Racing Took Place In Kansas At The Hutchinson Nationals

Thanks to BangShifter Don McGinnis we have this incredible video to show you today about a catastrophe that happened 40 years ago and has largely been lost to the unrelenting march of time. This is...

What Does It Look Like When Two Grandmothers Take A Lamborghini Murcielago On A Trip To The Shop? It’s Great Fun!

On one side of my family, my grandmother owned a third-gen Pontiac Trans Am and used it daily, with no qualms whatsoever about opening it up when the mood hit her. Many, many times she’d take...

Classic YouTube: Pro Stock Eliminator Footage From The 1988 Australian Drag Racing Nationals At Willowbank Raceway!

I love 1980s Pro Stock footage. You have screaming engines that the drivers are willing to rev to the moon, dry hops, burnouts in excess, yet you still have cars that are basically the cars you see...

Ka-Boom! Watch As The GEMWAR Holden Gemini’s Fuel Tank Explodes During A Burnout Contest!

The car is “GEMWAR”, a Holden Gemini that is everything that you would expect an Aussie burnout car to be: Flashy, loud and when the gas pedal is matted, exceptionally violent. Built by...

March Meet Video: What It’s Like To Be The Driver Of An Exploding Front Engine Top Fuel Car

The boys on the crew of the Mr Boston nostalgia top fuel car had a rough go of it in Bakersfield during the 2013 March Meet. The car never did what they wanted it to do and ultimately they suffered a...

The Registration Plate On This V8, RWD Hyundai Excel Says It All: “WHY NOT”

I don’t want to hear one word about this Hyundai Excel being LS-swapped. Not even from the LS hate crowd. Using the logic that it’s wrong to LS-swap a car that didn’t originally...

Corrupting Power Levels! Check Out The Finalists From Powercruise’s Powerskid Competition!

There isn’t one of the cars you will see in this video that I would not do bad things behind the wheel of. Not one. Not even the Mitsubishi sedan…I would gladly plant my carcass behind...

The Mighty Car Mods Are Doing A Cheap Car Challenge…And Marty Might Have Shot Himself In The Foot With His Choice. Yikes.

While we are probably still a ways away from seeing the Roadkill/Mighty Car Mods episode that both sides have agreed to, it seems that Marty and Moog are getting prepared for what Freiburger and...

Classic YouTube: Tuff Truck Racing From The Pacific Northwest, Complete With Thrills, Spills, And A Celebration Injury!

We joke about thrashing the life out of a beater often, but how many of you have actually done it? We’re not talking a mild romp on a dirt road, either…we mean thrash, with extreme...

If You’ve Got It, Flaunt It: This Porsche 918 Spyder Owner Puts The Hypercar To Work!

It’s easy to shrug off supercars and hypercars as nothing more than six and seven-figure rolling testaments to obscene spending and the like, and that may be true, but let’s be real for a...

Jay Leno Meets One Of The Biggest Stars From The 2015 SEMA Show, SpeedKore Performance’s “Tantrum” 1970 Dodge Charger!

In an event like the SEMA show, there are cars that grab your attention and do not let go, regardless of what you see. This year’s event left me with a short list of cars that were highlights,...

An Aussie Burnout For For The Underdog Crowd, Complete With A Blower Off To One Side! This Screaming Six-Cylinder Holden Ute Rules!

There is something so sweet about Ben Falk’s Holden HG ute killing it on the skidpad. Is it the burnout itself…no, that seems to be a skill every Aussie gearhead learns as they grow up....