Category Archive: RACING & ACTION
Burnout Insanity Videos: The Americans Have Spoken. Apparently We Weren’t Listening!
In our efforts to strengthen the bond between American and Aussie hot rodders, we started a bit of a pissing contest with regards to burnouts. For horsepower hounds the only thing more sacred than...
Nitro Is Back! Saturday Night Nitro Under The Lights At Famoso Raceway In Bakersfield
My plan was just to post a blog item that Darr Hawthorne sent us about Famoso Raceway’s new for 2012 Saturday Night Nitro Series along with a video from Les Mayhew, but I just couldn’t do...
Video: Ridetech Shows You How They Can Evaluate Your Suspension And Improve It
We spend a lot of time on the road with hot rodders, racers, and fans and can tell you that for every car that is at a show or race and gets driven 100 miles or more per month there are literally...
Aussie Vs. American Burnout Video: We Fuel The Fire In Search Of Truth, Conflict, and Video!
On Monday this week we ran yet another great Australian burnout video. On Tuesday we ran an American burnout video. The comments, bashing, and bragging started up immediately and we love it. So today...
Motorized Freak Of The Week Video: DARPA Captive Air Amphibious Transporter (CAAT)
Brian is so going to hate me for having all the cool stuff to write about this week! He is going to want to add one of these to the Lohnes family driveway for sure, and will enjoy blasting by the...
Tuesday Burnout Video: We Americans Know How To Make Smoke, But Are The Aussie’s Better?
I think it depends on your definition of burnout. In Australia they do donuts and all kinds of stuff and it is a riot to watch. Here we are about lots of tire smoke, and not as much movement. I do...
Ebay Find: Doritos JACKED El Camino “Monster Truck” Can Be Yours If The Price Is Right. Bring More Than $10K!
It’s famous! And with enough money you can be the new owner of the one an only Doritos JACKED El Camino that was in the commercial jumping busses, doing burnouts, driving through China shops,...
More Australian Burnout Video: We Can’t Get Enough Of These Crazy Bastards and Why Aren’t Our New Cars Rear Wheel Drive?
I can’t help myself. I love the Australian burnout competitions. They seriously kick our asses, and I consider myself to be an expert in the area of smoking tires. And how in the hell is it...
1320 Video TX2K12 3-Hour Blu-Ray DVD: 1600 HP On The Street And On The Track!
The guys at 1320 Video have been bringing you the coolest on the edge, I can’t believe this is really going down, high horsepower video for years now, and have just released their first one,...
Crash Test Video Bonanza: A Bunch of early 1980s Junk Gets Smashed to Bits
They don’t build ’em like they used to. Well actually they do, but only in China. This crash test footage from 1980 shows a Renault Le Car being walloped from behind at 35 mph. Pay close...
Watch Larry Flynt’s Attorney Paul Cambria Run 8.88 In A Brand New COPO Camaro
Due to our Bonneville fixation this week we’re late on the trigger with this one. Paul Cambria may be the finest First Amendment lawyer in the United States, having argued several cases in...
Video: That Last Great American Jet Car Show As You’ve Never Seen It Before
Jet cars have been and will forever remain the drag strip owner/promoter’s greatest ally in the war regarding butts in seats. Simply put, nothing draws the general public into a strip like...
Watch Paul Dallenbach’s 1400hp Unlimited Pikes Peak Car Launch Off the Course With A Stuck Throttle – Driver Banged Up
Paul Dallenbach was driving one of the most hair raising machines at this year’s delayed Pike’s Peak Hill Climb. The 1,400hp open wheel car is a little larger than a go kart and packed...
Watch a Pikes Peak Racer Launch Their Car Over a Cliff, Suffer One of the Most Horrifying Wrecks We Have Ever Seen and Survive!
The footage you will see below is not an outtake from a movie or some specially altered special effects piece. This is footage of Pikes Peak racer Jeremy Foley and his co-driver launching their...