Category Archive: RACING & ACTION, Videos
The Parting Shift: Bumper Cam Footage of Bob Self’s 218mph Ford GT From Loring, Maine
Bob Self’s totally bad ass 2006 Ford GT can lay claim to being the fastest car at Loring, Maine during the 2010 LTA event. Bob ran this monster to a 218mph lap and it sounded as sweet as...
Video: In-Car Foootage of a Run Up The Big Eliminator at Gravelrama
If there is one event we’re going to commit ourselves to checking out in 2011, it is Gravelrama, held every year in Cleves, Ohio. A veritable orgy of horsepower, rock crawling, flat drags,...
Insane Carnage Video: Open-Wheel Cars Make Crappy Airplanes
The nightmare scenario for any open wheel racer is tire-to-tire contact with a competitor, especially at high speed. One not need be a genius to see why it is a problem for the tires of these cars to...
American Thunder Video: A 1964 Fairlane 500 Hauls Ass on the ‘Ring
This is some of the greatest footage we’ve ever seen. This is video of a (modern) Holman Moody built 1964 Fairlane 500 being raced in Germany on the famed Nurburgring. It is in some sort of...
Old School Carnage: Killer World-Wide Footage From the 1980’s
The 1980s were filled with lots of great racing. They were also filled with lots of great wrecking as this video shows. Taking footage from all over the world, you’ll see everything from NASCAR...
Video: More Mooneyes Summer 2010, With Cacklefest
We had a great time at the Mooneyes Summer 2010 show and brought you photos and video of the car show, cacklefest and drag racing action, but here is more! You’ll find cool customs, hot rods,...
The Parting Shift: Whiplash in a 4-speed Stock Eliminator Nova!
Check this out! During a charity event, they allow a passenger to ride along in a 4-speed, 283 powered, 11 second Nova. The Stock Eliminator car was a few hundred pounds over weight, but still...
In-Car Video: So You Want to Drive a Quick Altered?
Altereds are some of our favorite cars to watch go down the drag strip. The combo of far too little wheelbase and far too much horsepower makes for some spirited viewing. This video is great in the...
Video Bonanza: Loring Timing Association 2009 Meet Videos
By the time you read this we’ll be headed north to the uppermost portion of Maine to join a small band of dedicated speed freaks at the Loring Timing Association’s 2010 LSR Meet. The...
Video Bonanza: Evel Knievel, the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Evel Knievel is an interesting character study. On the one hand there is the guy with the panache, guts, and skill to fly a too heavy motorcycle over too far a distance in front of tens of thousands...
Crazy Euro Wreckage: A Spec Racer Flies, Flips, and Tries to Kill Turn Workers
While we generally hate the hell out of “spec” racing, it does provide very tight action, expecially on road courses. That tight action can often lead to wreckage, normally it is not as...
Event Coverage: Power Hot Rod Reunion in Malmby Sweden
When our favorite Swedish BangShifter, Jobergg, told us that he had photos and video from the Power Hot Rod Reunion in Sweden, we just couldn’t pass them up. When you look at the Swedes and...
Incredible Historic Drag Video: Ten Minutes of the 1959 March Meet!
This is some amazing stuff. The video we found is 10 minutes of 8mm footage shot at the 1959 March Meet. This event is one of the seminal events in drag racing history. Don Garlits was paid by the...
Video Bonanza: Great 1980’s TV Car Stunts
There wasn’t a better time in world history to be a stunt man than the 1980’s. Long before the advent of computer effects and complex filming processes, stunt men made it happen. If you...