Category Archive: RACING & ACTION, Videos
Next Up On The Australian Burnout Stage…A V8 VW Bug Convertible?
Jun 07, 2015Bryan McTaggartComments Off on Next Up On The Australian Burnout Stage…A V8 VW Bug Convertible?
We’ve seen a lot of cars participate in Aussie burnout contests…from typical Australian and American muscle, to engine-swapped Japanese pieces…but this might be the first Volkswagen...
The Owner Of This Grand National Experiences The Highest And Lowest Feelings In Less Than A Minute!
Jun 05, 2015Bryan McTaggart6
We can argue for eons on all of the things related to hooning in public, but at the barest minimum, one thing we cannot emphasize enough is that there is always a time and place for it. If you want...
Watching This 1990s Buick LeSabre Get Thrown Around Off-Road Makes Us Wonder If Grandma Regrets Loaning Out Her Car
Jun 04, 2015Bryan McTaggart2
It started out with an innocent question: “Can I borrow the car?” Since you knew that your parents wouldn’t fall for that line of crap, you went to your grandparents. You said that...
Watch A Four Door Cadillac Thump A Full Race Looking Camaro At Byron Dragway
May 30, 2015Brian Lohnes1
Making big Cadillacs run hard isn’t a new thing, but it never gets old either. This drag video, which we believe was shot at Byron Dragway in Byron, Illinois, is awesome. It shows a claimed...
Wild Video: An Aussie Burnout Contest Competitor Launches The Bed Off His Truck And Nearly Flips When The Driveshaft Fails!
May 25, 2015Brian LohnesComments Off on Wild Video: An Aussie Burnout Contest Competitor Launches The Bed Off His Truck And Nearly Flips When The Driveshaft Fails!
We’ve seen guys blow cars up, get into fist fights, crash into barriers, and other stuff at Aussie burnout contests before but we’ve never seen a truck launch its bed off and nearly roll...
This Off-Road Romping Cadillac Is Awesome…The Team Name, However, Needs Work
May 22, 2015Bryan McTaggartComments Off on This Off-Road Romping Cadillac Is Awesome…The Team Name, However, Needs Work
After yesterday’s prerunner-style Crown Victoria, I didn’t think that I would find another big American barge playing off road competently. I was wrong…while digging through YouTube...
These Taiwanese Racers Have Turned Scooters Into Screaming Racers
May 22, 2015Bryan McTaggart2
On the surface, it almost looks like a joke, doesn’t it? Two motor scooters, on thin tires, with small engines that have the angry wasp exhaust note, idling at the line with the riders suited...
Nothing Caps Off A Neighborhood Party Quite Like A 6,000+ RPM Burnout In The Driveway
May 19, 2015Bryan McTaggart7
The Raschke family has turned what I used to do when I was a teenager into a block party event. For the last several years, they have hosted a get-together that includes food, music, and at some...
Ill Handling Beast Video: A Crazy Lister Corvette On the Road Course
May 17, 2015Brian Lohnes4
First things first, Lister Corvettes are not really Corvettes at all. The name came from the late 1950’s when the Lister chassis started making their way to US shores from Europe and racers...
The Mighty Car Mods’ “Mod Max” Nissan Silvia Is Everything Australian Insanity Should Stand For
May 14, 2015Bryan McTaggart5
For those unfamiliar with Mighty Car Mods, they are two guys (Blair “Moog” Jocylene and Martin “Marty” Mulholland) who are, for all intents and purposes, Australia’s...
This Snotty 6.9-powered Ford Flatbed Sings A Big-Block Song With A Diesel Accent
May 07, 2015Bryan McTaggart2
The 420ci International IDI engine found in 1983-87 Ford trucks was Ford’s first shot at a light-duty diesel engine for their F-series trucks and E-series vans. While they were beat to the...
Mater The Tow Truck Moved To Australia And Picked Up A Smoking Habit
May 07, 2015Bryan McTaggartComments Off on Mater The Tow Truck Moved To Australia And Picked Up A Smoking Habit
We run a lot of Australian burnout footage here, we know. It seems like a one-trick show, but it’s an excellent way to see how much hell an engine can put up with while turning the burnout into...
A Medley Of Sounds From Goodwood’s Festival Of Speed: Pure, Unadulterated Automotive Music
May 06, 2015Bryan McTaggart1
Sometimes, it is the simplest things in life that are the best. And around here, it doesn’t get much simpler than seeing and hearing a good racing car that is putting in some work....
Historic Drag Video: Awesome Early 1970s Footage From Oswego Dragway – Funny Cars, Wheelstanders, Doorslammers Galore!
May 03, 2015Brian Lohnes1
Boy is this some awesome video! This five minute Super 8 time travel trip back to the early 1970s was original shot by (apparently) by someone named Marvin King. The video depicts what seems to be a...