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Category Archive: RACING & ACTION, Videos

Video Alert: Stolen Race Car – 40K Reward Offered To Find It – Help Needed!

Thieves are the worst level of human scum. Unfortunately some struck recently and they stole an entire drag racing operation that was parked in Aiken, South Carolina. The brazen jerks made off with a...

In Car Video: The 680hp Lingenfelter Performance Engineering L-28 at the Optima Invitational

Over the next few weeks you’ll be seeing lots of awesome video from the Optima Ultimate Street Car Invitational. This is the opening salvo and we were tipped off to it by LPE’s Mike...

Bonneville Video: An ESPN Produced Video on The Mike Cook Yearly Bonneville Shootout – Must Watch Stuff!

Mike Cook’s yearly Bonneville Shootout normally brings out amazing performances from some of the fastest vehicles on Earth. This year it brought that and an awesome video, made by ESPN...

Epic Video: The Isle of Man TT Motorcycle Race at Full Speed

Since 1907 motorcycles have come to the tiny Isle of Man to compete in one of the most prestigious races in the world. The Isle of Man TT is unique in the fact that while the vehicles and riders...

Amazing Save Video: Vic Hernandez Keeps His Corvette off the Wall at the El Paso Motorplex

Now that we are back from SEMA we can start wading through all the great tips we got while working in Las Vegas at the show. One of the best ones we got came from MSD’s Robert Martin who set us...

The Parting Shift: Doing the Eighth Mile Boogie in a Gear Jamming 1978 Malibu

Just when you thought it was safe to go outside, we’re back with the Parting Shift. This week we take you to the lush greenery of Boiling Springs, PA and Quarter Aces Drag-o-Way. This is a...

Drag Video: A Day in the Life of Carl Tasca and his Cobra Jet(s)

In a scant few days we will be bringing your the low down on the Camaro drag package car from SEMA. That car will provide the first real competition for the Ford Mustang Cobra Jets that have been...

Mud Slingin’ Video: Bad Ass Mud Bog Action From 1987

The mud boggin’ scene in the 1980s was pretty wild. Horsepower was becoming easier and easier to find, trucks were getting larger, faster, and more capable and the Budweiser bowtie logo was...

Great Video: A 20-Minute Drag Week Retrospective from Hot Rod

This is the 2011 Drag Week video that tops them all. Put together by the guys over at Hot Rod it is a near 20-minute recap of the week, narrated by our old pal Freiburger. The video has some great...

Wild Video: A Monster Lane Changing Wheelstand From a Small Tire Mustang

Now this is some wheels up action! This Mustang dead hooks at the hit of the throttle and it is full sky, full time from there on out. The guy driving this car has some serious stones because he...

Crazed Video: Tasca Mustang Cobra Jet Goes 8.06 -170 in Testing

Carl Tasca and his lead wrench Ralph Porier have done it again and this video proves it. Last Wednesday, Tasca jammed the shifted through all the gears in a near picture perfect lap at New England...

Video: Rocky’s Evil Twin Dragster Makes Debut at Eagle Field Drags

Rocky Phillips is the guy behind the Eagle Field Drags in Central California, where old school rods and race cars run down the Eagle Field runway flag start style with tire smoke for the first 1/8th...

Chadmouth: 100MPH Couch? I’m not impressed. We could do better.

When we first heard about a speed record for a couch that was hit by a group of guys in Australia, we were intrigued. Once we saw the couch in question, we were not impressed. In fact so much so that...

Drag Video: The Lingenfelter Flat Plane Turbo Camaro Goes 8.71-162mph!

We’ve showed you the Lingenfelter flat plane crank engine on the dyno naturally aspirated, making about 700hp. We then showed it to you on the dyno with a turbo making over 1,000hp. As the guys...