Category Archive: HISTORIC, Videos
Killer Historic Stunt Video: The Astro Spiral Jump Circa 1972!
Yesterday we asked what the coolest car related stunt you’ve ever seen was. One reader tipped us off to a rather legendary jump made back in 1972. Using the appropriate AMC Javelin, American...
KaBOOM Video: The Spectacular End to a Cummins Powered Dodge Pulling Truck
If truck pulling has an equivalent to cars like Larry Larson’s six second street legal Nova and other of that ilk, it’s the street legal pulling classes. With advancements in diesel...
Awesome Video: 27 Minutes Inside a Chevrolet Plant Circa 1936
Recently, a nine-minute video of life inside a Chevrolet plant in 1936 has been making the rounds on the internets. You know what we say about nine minute videos? Screw ’em! Why? Because...
Hard Landing Video: What Happens When the Wheelie Bar Breaks While Launching Your Fuel Altered
Our pal Kyle Loftis was at the World Fuel Altered Nationals in Eddyville, Iowa last weekend. The event normally draws some of the wildest short wheelbase, front engined, nitro burning iron that North...
Cool Video: The Most Artistic Drag Racing Video We’ve Seen In a While
We’re usually bringing you videos of stuff wrecking, exploding, and generally self-destructing on the drag strip. Today, for this brief shining moment, we’re going uptown, kids! The guys...
Kick Ass “Redband” Trailer For Car-Centric Movie Drive Released: Movie Looks Killer
You’ve undoubtedly heard some stuff about the upcoming movie, “Drive” starring Ryan Gosling. The premise of the movie pretty much rules. A Hollywood stunt driver supplements his...
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...