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Category Archive: RACING & ACTION, Videos

Detroit Power Video: The Greatest Truck Pull Footage Ever

If this were just a video of an International big rig pulling a weight sled it would be cool. If that International weren’t four wheel drive and equipped with what appear to be monster truck...

Video: Gary and Pam Beineke’s K&K Insurance 1971 Daytona Clone Flying at Maxton

Bobby Issac and Harry Hyde famously bombarded the Bonneville Salt Flats with a 1969 Dodge Charger Daytona stock car in September of 1971. Chrysler had chopped its racing budget and the wing car was...

Crazy Truck Video: Massive 8×8 Trials Competition From Czechoslovakia

Who knew such craziness existed in the Czech Republic? This video of giant trucks battling in an extreme off road competition is great. Seeing what an 8×8 truck powered by a big turbo-diesel...

Awesome Sleeper Video: An Aussie Plumbing Van That Goes Low 11s at 126 MPH!

There are lots of great sleepers out there. The amazing farm truck that surfaced a couple years back still leaves our heads shaking, but this plumbing van from Australia ranks right up there with it....

Killer Drag Video: A 1960 Impala Twisting Itself Up Like a Pretzel

The educated hard core racers who see this video will immediately say that the racer is leaving ET on the table by having his massive 1960 Impala launch like Shamu. To those smarty pants readers, we...

Doorslammer Drag Video: Pro Mod Action From the 1990 IHRA Fall Nationals

Since we’re on an obvious door slammer kick these last few days, the natural progression leads up to some awesome vintage Pro Mod footage from the first season that the class existed. In 1990,...

Road Racing Video: In-Car Action at the Rockingham Chump Car Race

Our pal Jeff Huneycutt, who is an ace freelancer and the operator of StreetMuscleAction.com sent us a cool video link of some in-car action at the Rockingham ChumpCar race. Huneycutt and crew won the...

Educational Video: Why Outlaw 8.5 Cars Rule

We’ve mentioned that the WCHRA race that we’ll be broadcasting live this weekend will feature an Outlaw 8.5 class. The great equalizer in this category is the fact that all competitors...

Preview Video: A Look at Some of the WCHRA Competitors You Can Watch This Weekend

We’re pumped up to bring you the live streaming braodcast of the WCHRA Spring Nationals this weekend. We’ll be bringing you live doorslammer drag racing action on Saturday and Sunday from...

Cool Video: A Top Fuel Sand Dragster On the Launch

Sand drag racing is a primarily west coast sport, but we’re still interested in it, and when we see videos, we just have to stop and watch. As cool as all the junk is, the nitro burning Top...

Crazy Video: A Turbocharged Camaro That Hates to Have the Front Tires on the Ground

This incredible video, showing Texan Kevin Cram in his twin turbo’d Camaro, beats all we’ve ever seen. Powered by a Proline Race Engines-built big block Chevy, and obviously dialed in by...

Crazy Video: 8-second passes on a small tire and only 200ci

While it’s kind of impossible to call a race car a sleeper, we’d never guess that a Cortina packing 200ci of straight six Ford power would be uncorking 8 second lap times all day long....

Cool Video: Big Wheelstand From Hemi-Powered Willys Gasser

There are few things more iconic in the halls of hot rodding than a blown Willys Gasser. With rolling curves, bulging fenders, and propensity to swallow large motors at will, the Willys went from a...

Killer Video: A Big 4×4 Ford Truck That’s Way Too Quick

What kind of lunatic builds an all-aluminum 511ci Ford FE engine and plugs it into a huge, lifted 4×4 truck for the purposes of drag racing it? A BangShift.com approved lunatic, that’s...