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Category Archive: RACING & ACTION, Videos

A Romanian Kid Built A Lego Hot Rod And It Actually Drives! 500,000 Pieces!

Be warned people, be warned. I showed this video to my Lego obsessed 5 and 7 year old sons and they flipped out. More specifically they flipped out, ran upstairs and then I heard the noise. You know...

Watch Kris Foster And Other Dirtbike Free Riders Perform Incredible Stunts And Jumps Using The Land!

As best we know, dirt bike free riding is simply heading out into the countryside, mountains, etc with your dirt bike and eschewing roads and trails for the natural habitat and the cool obstacles it...

This Match Race In Thailand Between A Hot Rod Diesel Truck And A 125cc Scooter Is Nuts!

We have been harping for a long time on the idea that drag racing is not just something that happens between the Pacific and Atlantic oceans. There are strips on every continent aside from those...

This Paddle Tire Equipped Fox Mustang On A Puerto Rican Sand Drag Strip Makes Our Pants Tight (video)

Juncos, Puerto Rico was founded in 1797 and has a population of about 40,000 people as best my extensive research into the place can find. The extensive research was done while eating an extensive...

Awesome Videos: Watch And Ride On Board With The Green Monster 19 Front Motor Turbine Dragster!

We were among the first to tell you about Tim Arfons’ project in recreating the front engined, wheel driven, turbine dragster that terrorized drag strips nearly 40 years ago. Now we’re...

Watch Two Insanely Modified Puerto Rican International Diesel School Buses Do Burnouts And Drag Race! One Of These Runs 13s!

No joke, although you cannot see the scoreboards at the end of this video the “winning” bus is capable of running in the 13-second time zone. How do we know that? We’re including an...

This Twin Turbo 292ci Y-Block Powered 1962 Ford F100 Makes 721hp At The Tire And Looks Beastly On The Dyno

A year or so ago I made a sideways comment about Y-Block Ford engines and their ability to make power, which thoroughly pissed of the Y-Block community. The hate came in from all sides and quickly I...

The Parting Shift: Gear Banging Awesomeness in a 1964 Impala!

There’s nothing cooler than a full-boogie barge with a stick box. This in-car video, taken at Atco Dragway in New Jersey shows a really beautiful 1964 Impala race car getting hammered on the...

Ride In The Cockpit Of A Ferrari V8 Powered Spice Race Car On The High Banks Of Daytona!

It is Friday and that means the weekend is looming and fun is going to be had. This time of the year there are family holiday parties, office parties, drunken mall Santas, and people jumping into...

Watch This T-Bucket Run 6’s In The 8th: Driver Wearing Shorts And A T-Shirt. Brilliant!

By now all of you know how much I hate T-Buckets, which has been the subject of many “spirited” discussions between Brian and I. Well, here is a video of some dude in his 1927 T-Bucket...

Check Out This Awesome 1920’s Dodge Promo Video Of A Sedan Mud Bogging In An Oil Field

This video rules. Seriously rules! Watch as this 1920’s Dodge Brothers Sedan mud bogs like a mad man through all kinds of killer terrain that would leave your new Dodge Ram stranded axle deep...

Bitchin’ Video: A Look Back At The Glory Days Of Modified Eliminator! Famous Racers Talk And Small Blocks Scream!

Bobby Bennett at CompetitionPlus.com is a BangShifty kind of guy. How do we know? Because he’s as hung up on the awesome past  of drag racing as we are and he makes killer videos that...

Comedian Jay Mohr Makes Jokes At Danica Patrick’s Expense And She Ain’t Happy About It!

We think Jay Mohr is one funny bastard. He is one of those guys that doesn’t pull any punches at his show, and honestly was surprised when he was chosen as the host at the NASCAR Sprint Cup...

This Video Of Grain Trucks Racing At A Fair Is Hilarious

Classic medium duty trucks are my jam. I love the things and while the majority of them have rotted and broken in half up here in New England, there are still thousands of them pressed into service...