Category Archive: RACING & ACTION, Videos
Morning Symphony: Giving The Turbochargers That Afterglow!
Aussie burnout contests are akin to a rock concert: you aren’t going there for any technical aspect, nor are you there to learn something. You’re there because loud noises, a crowd in a...
Takeoff Is Approved: 1/8th Mile Airport Runway Racing From Ballarat
If you go back into the early days of drag racing, you will find that World War II had a strong influence on the motorsport. Don’t just blankly stare the screen, it’s the truth: GIs who...
Look To The Sky: Free Life Films Shows Off The Wildest Rides Of 2018!
December is the start of many things: holiday music, wrapping paper hell, the time when your kids bring you lists of stuff that need to be decoded and checked to see what your budget will allow....
The Family Hot Rod: Petrolicious Tells The Story of A Spanish Racing Mini That Has A Legacy
People who don’t get cars or racing or competition or engineering or work tend to dismiss the rest of us and our obsession with the machines that we create, watch, operator, or observe....
The Other Racing Long Car: Check Out This 1980s Film Of Jim Jet Nelson’s Jet Limo At Great Lakes Dragaway
With McTaggart showing us all the way to have big time fun with a germ infested, cast aside, potential rolling meth lab in the form of his Cadillac limo, it triggered a memory about another racing...
This Compilation of 1990s Monster Truck Crashes Captures The Wildest Era Of Monster Truck Competition
The other day I posted a photo on my Instagram account (@BrianLohnes) of an old monster truck and one of the responses it got was a guy saying, “They actually raced these?” At first I was...
This ProCharged, Manual-Swapped Chrysler 300C’s Hillclimb Story Is Too Cool!
First off, I’m happy that I get to add another manual-swapped Chrysler to the list in my head. This car joins the V-10-swapped drift machine in the U.K., and both of the Chryslers that...
Morning Symphony: 10,000 RPM Track Attack With A Group B Mazda RX-7
Mazda’s place in rally wasn’t well established in the early 1980s. It didn’t take long to realize that the company had effectively brought a knife to the kind of gunfight where an...
History In Motion: This 1922 Video Shows The Paris Fire Brigade In Action – Gutsy Frenchmen!
This is an interesting video for many reasons. The first being the fact that it was made about 100 years ago, the second that it shows mechanized fire fighting in that time period, and the third is...
Hoonitruck Test Footage: The Twin-Turbo V6 Screamer Was Wild From The Start!
Without question, there is plenty of hyping up going on involving the Hoonitruck and the upcoming Gymkhana X video. Without a doubt, some of you might already be rolling your eyes at the thought of...
Tires By The Truckload: SMOKNRAT Dusts Off The Rears At The West Coast Nats!
I don’t know what’s worse for this whole flatbed work truck kink that I’ve had going for the last month or so: watching Dylan McCool dig through a warehouse full of 1960s-1990s era...
Video: Here’s What Drag Racing In England Looked Like 40 Years Ago – Snetterton Circuit Action
I’ve always been fascinated with drag racing in places like England and Australia because the populations share the love of speed and internal combustion but as the sport is basically...
Old School Drag Video: Here’s The 1999 IHRA Winternationals From Darlington Dragway!
From top fuel to mountain motor pro stock, this is a show that’ll have you smiling. For many, many years the IHRA opened their season with the Winternationals at Darlington Dragway in South...
