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Category Archive: BUICK / OLDS / PONTIAC, RACING & ACTION, Videos

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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!

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...

Success And Failure Are Both Options When Riding With Enduro KeX!

Lots of people asked me, when I was riding dirt bikes, if I freaked out at some of the stuff I rode on. The arena cross stuff, not so much. But some of the trail rides around Washington State...

This 1977 Cordoba’s Burnout Is Sweet Music To Our Ears And A Sight To Behold

Ok, maybe it is nothing more than sweet music to my ears, but whatever. This 1977 Chrysler Cordoba’s burnout at last year’s Mopar Nats is a stout shot at burning the rears off by a car...

This 6×6 ATV Goes For A Hard Roll At Ashtabula’s Dirt Course – And Rolls Away Just Fine!

I always wondered what it would be like to own one of these little 6×6 contraptions. I would see them advertised in the backs of magazines, where they were shown to be able to go anywhere, do...

This Burnout Was Brought To You By Hand Controls – Check Out The Wheelchair In The Ute’s Bed!

We’re starting to see a trend of wheelchair-bound individuals getting into motorsports, and frankly, we love it. Hand controls are leaps and bounds from where they were even ten years ago and...

A Lamborghini Takes On A Snowmobile In The Snow Of Sweden To See Who Will Win A Drag Race

Why don’t we get invited to stuff like this? Auto Express recently got to test out the all-wheel-drive Lamborghini Huracan in Sweden to see if the $237,000-plus supercar….well,...