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Category Archive: RACING & ACTION, Videos

Morning Symphony: The Call Of The Wild Two-Stroke

When I was riding, I wanted to try out whatever anyone had. Not that I didn’t love my Yamaha bikes, but I wanted a variety of reference points to validate what I was experiencing. I rode big...

This Chrysler Conquest Is Wicked – Dare To Be Different Done Right!

The Mitsubishi Starion/Chrysler Conquest sports cars have a cult following, but overall are the automotive equivalent of an endangered species. That’s a shame, because unlike the preceeding...

We Need These Gas-Powered Power Wheels To Play In The Snow! Check These Little Monsters Out!

Is the ultimate end for a Power Wheels toy destined to be down a dirt trail at high speed with an individual of questionable mental capacity on it? We love “Barbie Jeep Racing”, but we...

Getting Dirty In The Pit In Virginia! Who Knew A Lifted Mercedes Benz Could Be So Fun?

Going mudding should be simple and straightforward: get into some deep mud, drill the throttle and keep going until you are out of mud or you’re stuck up to your beltline in soil. It’s...

The Alaskan Army Truck! Dirt Every Day Builds Their CUCV Chevy Up For A Romp In The Wilderness!

Normally, Dirt Every Day’s Fred Williams builds some of the most insane, mental and questionable off-roading units around: a Plymouth Roadrunner with a diesel, a Jeep that goes full submarine,...

Reach For The Sky: Wild Wheelstands From Redemption 6.0 – No Prep Guys Hooking Better Than They Should Have!

It was cold as all hell during the first day of Redemption 6.0. That’s not hearsay or known by looking at an app – I was standing in the bucket of a construction lift with dew freezing to...

For Dessert: A Symphony Of The Sweetest Engine Sounds Man Has Ever Created…You’ll Want Seconds!

The sounds of Thanksgiving…let me see: there’s the football game on television that nobody is really paying attention to in my household…chasing the kids out of the...

Morning Symphony: Shouting The Arrival Of The Dawn With An Ex-SuperStars Mercedes!

At low speeds this monster sounds like a locomotive trying to get going, with the gears whining and the engine thumping out a percussive low bass. At speed these ex-SuperStars Mercedes C63s sound...

Morning Symphony: Rally Cars Tearing Up The Road Course!

“Adventure is taking inappropriate equipment to out-of-the-way places.” Outside of a meme that is probably ten years old or so, I don’t know who to attribute that particular quote...

Movie Car Chase: Two Scenes From The Movie “Brick Mansions”

Paul Walker might be immortalized with the “Fast and Furious” franchise but while Furious 7 was his final film role, the 2014 film “Brick Mansions” was his final...

This Dodge Aspen Has The Vinyl Roof, The Hubcaps, And Is Super Clean. And It Runs 11s…The Way You’re Probably Expecting.

If you didn’t know, from the moment I first got onto the Internet I was affiliated with Mopar FMJ forums. And if you don’t know what that means, FMJ is a grouping of three Chrysler body...

Morning Symphony: Listen To This Ex-SuperStars BMW M3 Bark Up A Hillclimb!

The SuperStars V8 touring car series had one major flaw, in our opinion: by the time we learned about it, the racing season had come to a close and the entire deal basically imploded, which was a...

Bring On The Fire! These Dirt Drag Racers In Mississippi Run All-Out!

Fire, rooster tails of flung dirt, auditory violence and speed. Dirt drag racing is a special kind of lunacy, isn’t it? We can applaud anybody who is willing to climb into the seat of a rail...

Watching A BMW E30 Drift Through A Lovely Autumn Scene Is The Perfect Farewell To Warm Autumn Weather

Yes, I know that winter, technically, is five weeks away. But I’m not bothered about that. As I’m writing this, the awesome Indian summer that BangShift Mid-West has experienced this year...