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Category Archive: MOPAR, RACING & ACTION, Videos

Morning Symphony: Cutting A Hemi-Powered 1970 Dodge Challenger Loose In A Drift Pit!

The Dodge Challenger may have been seriously late to the pony car party, but as the years have gone on the strange pony car from Dodge has become a sincere icon of the automotive world. With such...

This Ford Sierra Cosworth Is One Angry Little Bastard! How Does Four Cylinders Sound So Threatening? Anti-Lag!

It’s not a well-known thing for American Ford fans, but in the UK, if you say “Ford” and “Cosworth” in the same sentence, you’ll see the same glazed-eye expression...

More High-Powered Street Machines From Sweden – Check Out The Action From The Birka Cup!

The machines that prowl the motorways of Sweden are legendary, and the scenario behind races like the Birka Cup show why no-prep racing and street racing have the following that they do. Birka Cup is...

Think Six-Cylinder Mustangs Are Worthless? This Pressurized, Barra Six-Powered Ford Mustang Might Change Your Mind!

It’s the golden rule of Mustang ownership: if it has a six-cylinder under the hood, just keep on walking, that’s not the one you want. Doesn’t really matter the year, doesn’t...

Morning Symphony: The Top Ten Machines Laying Down Rubber In The Open Class At Gazzanats!

A haze in the air that can be seen for miles around, the hints of vulcanized rubber and racing gas, and the cheering of an audience that sounds well entertained…yep, it’s another burnout...

Would You Rather, Strange Australian Burnout Machine Edition! Which Badass Old Merc Floats Your Boat?

The normal Aussie burnout machine is usually one of two makes: it’s either a Ford of Australia product, or it’s General Motors’ Australian division, Holden. It never fails…you...

Morning Symphony: “Bloky”, The NASCAR-Powered Valiant, Performing Yet Another Ear-Splitting Show!

I don’t care how many times I see footage of this green Valiant Regal in action…I love it. I love the fact that it doesn’t have a massive, honkin’ blower sticking up out of...

Watch As This Duramax Chevy Puts All Of That Torque To Good Use: Punishing Tires!

From the start: this Duramax Chevrolet is a bad, bad sumbitch. The burnouts are epic, the driver unrelenting, and the fog bank created by just the tires alone was probably visible on weather radar...

Morning Symphony: A Fine Collection Of Skids From Gazzanats – How Long Can You Keep The Rubber Burning?

Have you ever just wanted to stop everything that you were doing and just scream as loud as you possibly can, for as long as you possibly can, in the hopes that once you are done you will feel much...

Morning Symphony: A Solid Hour Of Australian Cruising From Gazzanats!

Australia. Land of unique animals, vast empty areas, an entire state where there is effectively no speed limit (as we Yanks understand it, anyways) and some of the most stringent, panic-driven...

Morning Symphony: Rally Cars Cutting Loose At Monza – Tire Smoke And Turbos Are A Wonderful Thing!

Decry burnouts and stunts that turn tires to vapor as wasteful all you want to…some days, it’s the only sort of thing that will scratch the itch every gearhead I know gets every once in a...

Twin-Turbos, The Curb Weight Of A Feather, And Room To Run: This SuperLite SLC Kit Car Stomps!

I’ll be straight-up honest: the reason that I wanted to show off this SuperLite SLC running at the WannaGoFast event in Georgia has nothing to do with what the car is. That’s a pretty...

Gear Banging Insanty in a 1980s Era Turbocharged F1 Car – Amazing Footage

Today’s F1 drivers use paddle shifters and have steering wheels in their cars with more buttons and functions than a lap top. Back in the 1980s though, things were different. The driver still...

Morning Symphony: Hill Climb Close Range Fly-by Footage Courtesy Of The Hardest-Working HDD Cam Out There!

You know those awesome, close-up fly-by racing shots that make television shows like TopGear and racing footage look amazing? You like seeing a car bearing down on you on video just before it rips...