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Drift Video: How COMP Cams and Taylor Hull Racing Have Teamed Up With Big Results
May 08, 2019Brian LohnesComments Off on Drift Video: How COMP Cams and Taylor Hull Racing Have Teamed Up With Big Results
The world of drifting continues to evolve here in America. It is a motorsports that began on the fringes, captured a generation of sideways loving, tire smoke admiring kids, and continues to refine...
Violent Outburst: Dean Kearney’s Drift Viper Going Balls-Out At Hoonigan!
May 08, 2019Bryan McTaggartComments Off on Violent Outburst: Dean Kearney’s Drift Viper Going Balls-Out At Hoonigan!
For the most part, I’m a team player. I follow traffic laws. I open doors for others. I try to be as neutral as possible…partly because I’m fully aware that I can be intimidating to...
Mired Down In The Bog: Buried To The Frame At The Buck Motorsports Mud Bog
May 05, 2019Bryan McTaggartComments Off on Mired Down In The Bog: Buried To The Frame At The Buck Motorsports Mud Bog
Ah, mud, the final frontier for keeping your foot buried to the floor for as long as you dare. The only thing stopping you from redlining your engine until the fuel is gone is the threat of blowing...
All The Blower: Watch Carl Scott’s Whipple-Charged Honey Badger Take Care Of Business
May 02, 2019Brian LohnesComments Off on All The Blower: Watch Carl Scott’s Whipple-Charged Honey Badger Take Care Of Business
We have known Carl Scott since 2005 when he won the first Hot Rod Magazine Drag Week ever held. At that point he had a Chevy Nova with a nitrous engine in it and for all intents and purposes it was...
Wait…what? This Video Shows A 1986 ASC McLaren Mercury Capri Getting Tested – Remember These?
May 01, 2019Brian Lohnes9
Ok, now this is a new one on us. We knew that ASC McLaren got in on the Fox body convertible game but we had not idea that they basically had their own version of a Saleen Mustang in the form of the...
WTF Video: Watch This Vintage Combine Packing A 500ci Turbocharged Caddy Engine Run 15s at 80+ At The Digs
May 01, 2019Brian Lohnes8
Just when you think you have see it all…literally. This video from Finland is stunning because it depicts a hot rod that is so weirdly awesome we do not have words for it. This 1967 model year...
Watch The 1989 NHRA Southern Nationals – Wreckage, Upsets, Unscripted Fun!
May 01, 2019Brian LohnesComments Off on Watch The 1989 NHRA Southern Nationals – Wreckage, Upsets, Unscripted Fun!
The first NHRA Southern Nationals were held in 1981 at a track that had originally been designed as an airport and lived a pretty sleepy life before hosting one of the biggest races on the NHRA tour...
This 1958 Kendall Motor Oil Video Called “Competition Driver” Is Perfection From 60 Years Ago
May 01, 2019Brian LohnesComments Off on This 1958 Kendall Motor Oil Video Called “Competition Driver” Is Perfection From 60 Years Ago
For many people who love the history of racing in America, the 1950s are considered one of the greatest eras of road racing this country has ever seen. Returning GIs who were about 10 years out of...
Video: The Crash Testing Procedure For A $2 Million Koenigsegg Hypercar Is Painful And Amazing
Apr 30, 2019Brian LohnesComments Off on Video: The Crash Testing Procedure For A $2 Million Koenigsegg Hypercar Is Painful And Amazing
When we think of the ultra-exclusive world of hypercar builders and owners, we sometimes forget that beyond all the glitz and glamor is the fact that these cars are required to comply with all the...
Top Fuel Pro Mod Video: Scott Palmer’s Studebaker May Not Be Perfected Yet, But It Sure is Amazing
Apr 30, 2019Brian Lohnes3
To know Scott Palmer is to love Scott Palmer. Not in a weird way, but in a drag racer/hot rodder way. In the kind of way that any awesome person you’ve ever seen do cool things is. Scott is one...
Funny Car Chaos: Watch Ron Ooms Suffer A Bizarre Crash During A Burnout That Broke His Leg In Five Places
Apr 30, 2019Brian Lohnes10
Now this is a weird one. During the Funny Car Chaos event at MoKan Dragway last weekend racer Ron Ooms was beginning a burnout in his beautiful Camaro bodied funny car when things went wrong in a way...
Not Good: Watch This Racer Suffer A Nitrous System Failure, Filling The Car With Gas!
Apr 25, 2019Brian Lohnes7
This is a crazy one right here. During a recent grudge race in the Carolinas, the driver of this Mustang quite literally got a face full of the very nitrous that was supposed to be headed into his...
The Sound Of Passion: This Mario Andretti Short From Magnaflow Is A Miniature Masterpiece
Apr 25, 2019Brian Lohnes4
He is among the greatest race car drivers that has ever lived. He was part of a generation of racers that were skilled, hard nosed, and fearless in ways that people have seemingly forgotten how to...
Attack Of The Mom Buggy: Watch This 5,000lb, Turbo Six Powered, All Wheel Drive Barge Run 9s At 140+!
Apr 25, 2019Brian Lohnes2
This is one of those cars that we have always wanted to know more about because it has evolved right before our eyes on the internet. Thanks to that same internet, we now know the full story behind...