Category Archive: RACING & ACTION, Videos
Truckin’ Awesome Video: True Monster Truck Drag Racing at Englishtown
We can hear the hate mail now. “MONSTER TRUCKS ON A DRAG STRIP?! Like our condoning or celebration of such a kick ass event is out of place. The whole sport of drag racing, especially on the...
One of the Greatest Wreck Videos Ever: 12-Minutes of Urban Hillbilly Drag Race Wreckage
Sean Melton and his crew at Urban Hillbilly Videos were really trailblazers in door car drag racing video coverage. They were there “before it was cool” and have been pumping out awesome...
Thursday Bonneville Video Bonanza: More Great Footage From the Salt
We could sit and watch cars launch off and power down the short and long courses at Bonneville all day long. Luckily for us, there are lots of fans and racers out there now carrying video cameras...
Wednesday Bonneville Video Bonanza: More Cool Video From Speed Week 2011!
Yesterday we brought you the freshest video we could find from Bonneville Speed Week 2011. Today, we’re back with the same thing because the sweet video footage keeps rolling in from the...
Update: The Hot Rod Magazine Special Camaro With a Supercharged Two Cylinder Big Block Chevy Runs 32.414 MPH – Qualifies for Record
Well this is oddly cool! When Keith Turk and Hot Rod Magazine’s David Freiburger fragged the 1100hp blown big block Chevy in their Camaro at Bonneville, all hope seemed lost for the week. The...
Bonneville 2011 Video Bonanza: Launches and Fly-Bys (Some Featuring the Handiwork of BangShifters!)
The videos are starting to roll out of Bonneville now, and we’ve scooped up a bunch of them to show you. Most are long distance fly bys but man, the sound is totally worth the price of...
Cool Video: Dr Jamie Meyer of GM Shows Six Significant Performance Cars From Chevy’s History
Chevrolet turns 100 this year and the company plans to celebrate that fact loud and proud during the 2011 Woodward Dream Cruise in and around Detroit. In this video, Dr. Jamie Meyer, one of the...
Pro Mod Disaster Video: The Tindle/Cagle Uber Wreck
There are drag racing crashes and then there are drag racing CRASHES. This is the latter. The wreck involves the blown Mustang Pro Mod of Tim Tindle and the nitrous Camaro of Tori Cagle. From the...
The Parting Shift: A Regular Guy Shows GM How Powershifting Really Goes
In the blog item just below this one, we showed you a video from GM on how they test their manual transmissions “Woodward Ave” style. Those tests are designed to recreate the kind of...
Funny Video: Eight Minutes of Pace Car/Safety Car Fails
One of the great gearhead movie exchanges of all time went down between Robert Duval and Tom Cruise in, “Days of Thunder”. Duval tells Cruise to pull out on the track and hit the pace...
Big Fire Video: A Mustang Blows a Transmission Line and Lights Up Like a Roman Candle!
This video, shot at the currently dormant Gateway International Raceway just outside of St Louis does a great job of depicting the volatility of transmission fluid when it hits red hot exhaust parts!...
Bonneville Video: Amir from Spectre Talks Us Through a 350mph Streamliner Run
The Speed by Spectre ‘Liner will be running at Bonneville next week and we’ll be there to cover it. Chad will be bringing the fight to the salt starting on Monday. But we digress. If...
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...