Category Archive: RACING & ACTION, Videos
The Parting Shift: Beating on a 625hp, Four Speed, Big Block, 1968 Chevelle
This is one nasty car! The owner claims that it makes 625hp and by the sounds of the thing and the way it likes to run, we’re on board with that. The stir stick is attached to a Muncie M22 and...
Video: Wheelstanding Stock Eliminator 1969 Camaro
Let’s face it, we like a lot of racing. But since we grew up around NHRA Stock Eliminator drag racing, and one of the family racers was a 1969 Camaro, we have a certain soft spot for first-gen...
Video: Wescott Runs 8.221 @ 162.72 at the National Open in Valdosta in his Super Stock Hemi
Wayne Jesel of Jesel Valvetrain Innovation just sent us video of Charlie Westcott Jr. running 8.221 at 162.72 miles an hour during the Division 2 National Open this past week in his Warfish...
The Parting Shift: Coolest Gasser Video Freaking Ever Edition
After watching this video 10-20 times and still loving every second of it, we’re not sure if we’ll ever be able to find anything as good for our weekly Parting Shift blog item. In this...
Video of the Week: The Crappiest Drag Strip on Earth
We have to thank, or blame, our chassis builder pal Jon Sandahl for shooting us a link to the video below. It was apparently shot at a place calling itself a drag strip somewhere in the Caribbean....
Bill Caswell Baja Video Bonanza:Beating on the Baja Bimmer
It wasn’t all suck time for our man Bill Caswell in Baja. As we told you yesterday, Caswell made the start of the race by the skin of his teeth and managed to haul ass in the desert for a...
Crazy Race Video: Swedish Tractor Racing With Plows in the Ground!
Those crazy Swedish guys seem to find the best way to occupy themselves with cool mechanical mayhem. We were tipped off to this video featuring a race where tractors compete. The twist? The tractors...
Video Burnoutapalooza! ! ! ! ! ! ! Have the Aussies perfected the Burnout?
Burnouts rule. Let’s face it, if you are into cars, you like tire smoke. Granted, some of us enjoy blazing the tires more than others, but nothing stirs a crowd of car lovers up more than the...
Vintage Flopper Video Bonanza: 1980s Funny Car Racing From Englishtown and New England Dragway
Dean Papadeas is a name that many avid drag racing fans don’t know but they should. Papadeas was the man who single-handedly changed the way that drag races were filmed and presented on...
Freakshow Video: A Monster Truck and a Jet Dragster Duke it Out on the Strip
When Berserko Bobby Doerrer called us up and said that he was helping out with a jet car that had just matched raced a monster truck at Palm Beach International Raceway, we asked him to place his...
Twin-Engine Digger Video: A Retro-Awesome Slick Destroying Machine
The age of the twin-engine dragster has long passed. Sadly, there are very few exhibition runners out there to show the drag fans of today, just how bad ass they were. This video was shot at Beaver...
Awesome Wheelie Video: Super Slow Motion Footage, Graceful Launch – Death Wobble Landing
Super slow motion footage is really cool. This video shows exactly why. The killer 1974 Challenger featured in this piece comes off the starting line and hangs the hoops like a good Stock/Super Stock...
Pedalfest Video: Two Pro Fuel Dragsters Smoke the Hides and Get Crazy
The IHRA’s Pro Fuel class has provided some great action at the sanctioning body’s Nitro Jam events. The class features injected, nitromethane burning dragsters that are allowed more fuel...
The Parting Shift: Wheels Up and Screaming at Atco, NJ
We’ll leave you this week with some great footage from Atco, New Jersey. The two cars featured are super stockers sporting small block engines and crash boxes. The vintage Corvette is pretty...