Category Archive: RACING & ACTION
If Viper’s Came Like This The Line To Buy One Would Look Like Walmart On Black Friday
I’ll admit, I am NOT a Viper fan in the grand scheme things. Well at all really. I’ve never been a fan of the V10 since stock it sounds like a UPS truck and it’s so small. I mean if...
Raging Rotary: Watch As This Twin-Rotor Mazda RX-7 Balances Wheelspin And Grip On The Quarter Mile
Traction is good. Remember that. As sweet as it is to leave skidmarks from a clutch dump that look like the “slippery ahead” sign’s suggestions, that isn’t the fastest or...
Morning Symphony: Ease Out Of The Turkey Coma With The Sounds Of Rally-Running Opels!
Raise your hands: how many of you ate way too much yesterday? Yeah, don’t feel too bad…we’re right there with ya. When the table is full and you’ve been waiting all day, your...
Angry Buzzing Thing: This Rambler Hornet Might Be The Nastiest Four-Door Version We’ve Ever Seen!
American Motors needed to do any and everything possible to bring in a cash flow during their years of production. They saved costs in production, rehashed instead of re-designed, and they exported...
So Wrong, So Right: The Turbocharged V8 Ford Focus Drag Car
I’m a total sucker for a front-wheel-drive car that has been converted to drive the proper set of wheels. Ask me about my fascination with any small-block powered Dodge Daytona, or the myriad...
Blame The Cool Air: Watch This Twin-Turbocharged Chevy Nova Point At The Georgia Sky!
If you can still get onto a track this late in the year, there’s only one reason to even go: cold air, the colder, the better. All that hot and humid summertime air isn’t helping the...
The Yetti: Watch This Twin-Turbo Ford Lightning Romp And Stomp At The World Cup Finals!
The Ford Lightning was always meant to be a runner of a pickup truck. A shortbed, stepside, supercharged beast of a pickup, it’d rock more than it’s fair share of competitors in...
Classic YouTube: The Finnish Drag Racing Oldsmobile Delta 88
I’m of the mindset that the spritual successor to the musclecar era Oldsmobiles isn’t the G-body Cutlass, but instead the Oldsmobile Delta 88. They are comparable in size to the old...
The Mouse That Roars: This Suzuki Swift Is One Evil-Sounding Machine…Super Light, Super Built And Very Pissed!
One of my first gigs ever involving a racetrack was working as a cone monkey for an SCCA autocross my junior year of high school as a volunteer deal for the JROTC I was a part of. It was a simple...
Morning Symphony: Launching Like A Jet Off Of An Aircraft Carrier
Sticking the launch might be the trickiest part of the run for a drag racer. Doesn’t matter if you’ve been running pro for decades or you’ve got your grandma’s 1997 Regal out...
Morning Symphony: This Hayabusa-Powered Autobianchi A112 Is Making The Donuts At Maximum Volume!
Like a manic kitten with claws fully extended in the middle of the “witching hour” every cat experiences, this Autobianchi A112 is noisy, quick on it’s feet, has traction for days,...
Pure Blooded: This Pontiac GTO Is All Naturally Aspirated Tin Indian!
Ok, purists, here’s your moment of zen. Fans of GM brands that aren’t Chevrolet tend to get a bit twisted whenever you mention the “corporate engine” deal. Here’s how it...
Fast Moving Bricks! Check Out This Compilation Of GM Big Boys Running The Strip!
Have we established that we are fans of GM’s B-body? Lohnes owns one. I’ve owned two, and would own another. Chad likes them, though he likes them just a little bit older, and...
Tough Truck Racing At Dennis Anderson’s Muddy Motorsports Park: Low Level Flight And High-Intensity Durability Testing!
When you don’t care one iota about your vehicle, when it’s time has come, you call someone with a tow truck to drag it’s sorry carcass off to the giant metal pancake maker. When you...