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Universally Cool: This Quick Look At The Vintage Hot Rodding Scene In England Is Perfect
There’s an interesting element to the automotive world that we love to talk about around here. Something that is almost primal and universal about the appeal of cars and trucks to enthusiasts...
25 Years Later: Here’s The Final Rounds Of The 1993 NHRA Winternationals LIVE
It was youngsters vs older guys at the 1993 NHRA Winternationals. It was Warren Johnson vs Scott Geoffrion, John Force vs Del Worsham, and Joe Amato vs Kenny Bernstein. It was wreckage, it was green...
The Dirty Cougar: The Moment Of Truth – Would The $400 Mercury Survive King of the Heap?
If you missed the last update on the Dirty Cougar project, click here to check it out! So let’s recap on the progress we’ve made with the 1987 Mercury Cougar LS that has become a...
Kill It Like You Mean It: Rallycrossing A Beater LTD Until It Blows Up!
Come this Saturday, the Dirty Cougar will face down NCM Motorsports Park for Round 3 of this season’s King of the Heap series. I’ve had fun bringing the forlorn Mercury up to snuff, and...
Watch Chris Economaki Cover The 1980 NHRA Winternationals For ABC’s Wide World of Sports
There are certain faces and names that we automatically connect to the world of auto racing. Voices, too. Chris Economaki is one of them, perhaps the best of them. The guy was everywhere and he was...
Hustlin’ HUMVEE Video: This Military HUMVEE Has A Hot Rod Duramax Swap And Runs 12s!
Ok…ok…Ooooook. This is awesome. There’s always something great of taking a slow vehicle and making it fast, right? The more slow the starting vehicle and the faster the end product...
Haulin’ Plenty: Trucks, Trucks And More Trucks From Urban Hillbilly’s Archives!
The split was explained early in my life: The car was for family trips and the truck was for work. That was that…if you didn’t need to haul anything around or didn’t need to tow...
Blown To A T: A Holden Gemini With A Screaming Six Rips It Up At Motorvation 33!
Ah, the lowly GM T-car. In America this platform got exactly zero respect…Chevrolet Chevette? Pontiac T-1000? No, thank you…too small and too underpowered. Nevermind the rear-drive...
WRC Rallye Monte-Carlo 2019 Shakedown Testing: Blowing Out The Cobwebs!
The holiday season is long past, and winter be damned, it’s time to get back into the swing of racing. Every form of motorsport is spooling up for the 2019 season and World Rally Championship...
World’s Angriest Cough Drop: This 500 Horsepower Toyota Starlet Is A Ripper!
Oh good lord is this thing angry. It’s a Toyota Starlet, a tiny little car that under normal circumstances is best left to MPG-touting types and frugal commuters. This particular example, on...
Morning Symphony: The Supercruise At Motorvation 33
While we’re dealing with Arctic blasts and icy, snowy conditions here in the Northern Hemisphere, in the Southern Hemisphere it’s the middle of summer and the fun only ramps up from the...
Morning Symphony: Sunday Drag Racing At Heathcote Raceway
Missing the dragstrip? Don’t feel alone. With everything around BangShift Mid-West soaked to the bone in never-ending rain showers, the only way that we will race anything in a straight line is...
What In The? That’s A Ford Ka Powered By A Barra Murdering Tires!
Here’s what you need to know about the Ford Ka: It’s a “city car” (read: damn tiny) that was running with Ford’s New Edge styling, prone to body rot, and was running...
