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Category Archive: MISC, Videos

Watch A Wheel For The Bloodhound SSC Get Spin Tested To 1,100 MPH In A Huge Test Rig

One of the things we have long admired about the Bloodhound SSC project is that the organizers and builders have managed to turn the whole venture into a huge source of national pride and teamwork...

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This 1965 Ford Mustang Fastback Is The Genesis Point For An SCCA Spec Mustang Racer!

There is always a starting point to any car enthusiasts’ sickness, whether it was a car they spotted as a kid, a project worked on with family or friends, or the moment they realized they were...

What Is Fred From Dirt Every Day Doing With A Beat Up Volkswagen Vanagon, Besides Killing His Spine?

“The Volkswagen van may not be what most people think of when they’re looking for something to hoon around in,” according to Fred Williams. No kidding. Unless you are someone who...

Insanity on Ice: Unlimited Sleds of the Golden Age of Snowmobile Speed Runs, With Video

While winter has not gotten here in the technical sense of the date, the worm has turned for us in northern climates and it is cold, grey, and occasionally flurrying here and there. We know a guy in...

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Check Out The Wild Ride That Brandon Pesz Goes On In Keith Haney’s Nitrous Camaro – Nearly Flips It Before Riding The Barrier!

Depending on how you view this, Brandon Pesz is either one hell of a driver or had enough luck on his side to take care of a good-sized city, because the run he made in Keith Haney’s...

This Guy Knows His Machine! Watch As He Pulls Off Stunts With His Yamaha MT-07 Like It’s A Bicycle!

Do you remember mastering the J-turn on your bicycle by locking up the rear wheel and swinging the tail around? Remember how awesome you thought you were for being able to master the perfect...

Didn’t Expect This: Watch As Takeshi Kimura Takes His Ferrari F40 Camping In The Snow!

Ferrari’s F40 is an automotive legend. At the risk of having a couple of men in suits show up at my house, I view the F40 as the Italian take on the formula that the Dodge Charger Daytona...

Chevrolet Camaro Versus BMW M4? Can Chevrolet’s Legend Compete With The Bavarian Legend?

Camaro versus Mustang. Ever since the fall of 1966, the Chevrolet Camaro’s main nemesis has been Ford’s pony car, and that’s pretty much because the Camaro was GM’s knee-jerk...

The Smoking Tire Checks Out A 575 Horsepower, Built To The Nines Jaguar XJ8L!

I don’t care what Karl, the owner of this Ipanema Brown Jaguar XJ8L says, thirty-five grand is not a budget build. If it is to him, so be it. But that is the only thing that I can nitpick about...

Classic YouTube: Behold, The Granborghini! Whipping The Snot Out Of A Nissan Skyline R33 With A Riding Scooter!

A Nissan Skyline R33 can hustle, even if it is the GTS-T and not the GT-R model. Your average riding scooter does not. Not even if a horse jockey who might blow away in a slight breeze is riding on...

Petrolicious Catches Up With The Lucky Owner Of Renault’s Little Rally Monster, The R5 Turbo!

Bring up Renault in America, and the imagery is enough to make most gearheads sick: the dysfunctional marriage to American Motors. The Renault Alliance, Fuego, and “Le Car”. Renault had...

Wild Ride: Watch As Augusto Scalbi Goes Barrel-Rolling In His TC2000 Renault After Mechanical Failure!

When you see a car that is as torn up as Agusto Scalbi’s Renault Fluence TC2000 race car is in this video, the first question is usually “What the hell did he hit?” The answer:...

Hot-Lapping: This Half-Mile Corvette Catches Fire After A 180+ MPH Run!

Everything about this C6 Corvette Z06 is awesome: the stance, the 1,000 horsepower supercharged mill under the hood, the exhaust note that could wake the dead, the ability to run 181 in the...

Easter Egg: This Radical Geo Tracker Is A Mudding Machine! Watch It Shred The Earth In Michigan!

Here’s a fun riddle: what’s tiny and sketchy, roars like a hungry lion, and rips up more turf than a box full of gophers on caffeine? This little Geo Tracker, nicknamed...