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Category Archive: FUNNY STUFF, Videos

Instructional Video: Don’t Put Your Face There Kid

Being a gearhead, especially a young one, means living through many rites of passage. The first time you push a wrench with a closed fist and rip all the skin off your knuckles, the first time you...

Cool Video: A Guy Tests Out His Homebuilt Quarter-Scale Jet Dragster!

We’ve seen lots of neat miniature race cars, engines, and tractors in our day, but we’ve never seen a freakin’ home made jet dragster! This thing rules all and is even capable of...

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Cool Video: Let’s Ride Motorcycles

So if we led off by telling you that the below video is an advertisement for a Taiwanese bank, we’re not sure you’d get far enough to check it out. It would be your loss of course,...

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Cool Video: 101 year old Margaret Dunning Still Cruises Her 1930 Packard!

Margaret Dunning is 101 years old, which is pretty damned impressive in itself. Add the fact that she still cruises her 1930 Packard, changes its oil and spark plugs as well as the other maintenance...

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Cool Video: A Vintage Ford Pro Stocker Rumbles Back To Life

There’s a slowly emerging crop of vintage Pro Stock drag race cars emerging around the country. Some, like this car were truly competitors back in the day, while others, like Brian...

Chad Reynolds

We all know the Australians kick ass when it comes to burnouts. They put on the craziest shows full of tire smoke, blower whine and donuts you have ever seen. The only reason I have for why they do...

Video: Australian Burnoutapalooza! Burnout Mayhem 3 from Sydney Dragway

The Australians rule all when it comes to burnouts and burnout contests. I hate to admit it, but it is true. Take this video for example. Are the cars really that small? Or are the blowers really...

Video: Super Sexy Goodguys Columbus Show Coverage

The Goodguys PPG Nationals show in Columbus is the biggest of the year. The Street Rod and Street Machine of the Year awards are presented, every area of town is like a car show each night, and it...

The True Story Behind The Fake Racetrack in Chrysler’s Latest TV Commercial

Dodge’s latest television commercial is a spot plugging their Durango SUV. Rather than showing the vehicle backing over a flower bed or slowly ambling up a crushed stone driveway, the spot...

The Parting Shift: Pulling Lenco Levers With the Front End in the Air!

Steve Clukey is a long time New England drag racer. He’s owned his Duster since it was brand new, and he has been beating it like a rented mule from day one. It has always been a stick shift...

Killer Video: Mike Ryan Wheels His Freightliner Up Mount Washington!

Jason Lewis has done it again. The first time we saw Lewis do his thing with Mike Ryan we fell in love with the video, called “Size Matters”. It is Ken Block meets a hot rod Freightliner...

20 Minutes of Engine Pornography: A Look at 25 Motors from Nelson Racing Engines

No matter what you think of Tom Nelson and his engines, there’s no denying that the man understands how to promote his business. His “NRE TV” channel on YouTube draws tens of...

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Crash Video: A Motorcycle Racer On a Weird Bike Wipes Out the Christmas Tree!

We bet the guy riding the bike in this video is an experienced rider that has really hauled some ass in his day. Unfortunately, no one had a camera out during those good times, but they were front...

Cool Video: A Chute’s-Eye View of an 8-second drag car run

It is tough to really illustrate the speed of a bad ass drag car through video. Actually, it used to be hard to do that. Before killer little cameras became commonplace, industrious racers would...