Rough Start: 1973 Chevrolet Chevelle Laguna 454 – Do What Scares Others.
It’s hot rod black. It’s got the required 7.4 liters of thumping big-block Chevrolet under the hood. It’s got the rally gauges with the tachometer, as they all should have come....
Morning Symphony: Putting A 260ci LS Engine To Redline At Full Load For Five Minutes!
“You never know until you know”. That brand-new car that followed you home should work perfectly fine…it is brand new after all, right? What’s to say that the transmission...
BangShift Question Of The Day: What One-Off Engine Would You Like To See Reproduced?
Elsewhere today you’re going to see a video from Uncle Tony’s Garage on the A-925 dual overhead cam Hemi that Chrysler was putting together during the height of the NASCAR war with Ford...
Pressure-Cooked: Here’s What Happens When A Tire Explodes Inside Of A Lada
My introduction to split-rims came the first time I was in a motor pool with an older Deuce and a Half parked at the back. What I knew about truck I had: automatic transmission, closed cab. What I...
Woosh, Scream, Roar, Whine: This Video Shows Off A Load Of Differently Powered Pulling Tractors In Rapid Fire Action
This is a fun video that shows, in rapid fire, why people like us love tractor pulling so damned much. There’s no delays here, there’s no crashes, hangups, or miscues. Nope, this is a...
Photo Coverage: 2019 Highway Creeper Car Club Rock N Rods Car Show
(Words and photos by Scott Liggett) – Back in April, we attended the Highway Creepers Car Club’s 6th Annual Rock N Rods Car and Bike Show. This is one of our favorite shows to attend...
2019 NHRA New England Nationals Photos: Images From The Pits In Epping, Hard Work In The Heat
(Photos by Dave Nutting) – We often think about the drivers and the fans when temperatures at a drag race soar. That’s all well and good but the crew men and women who are working on...
ALS Cruising For A Cure 2019: Here’s Our Final Load Of Images From The Event!
(Words and photos by Doug Gregory) – This is the finale of our coverage from this event. If you get the chance come to this one in person and support a great cause. The weather is usually...
Smoked: This New Documentary Podcast Series About The Rise And Fall Of IMSA and Indy Racer Randy Lanier Rules
Yes, this is the summer of bad ass automotive podcasts. A week or so ago we told you about the killer documentary podcast called Larger Than Life which is about the street racing legend “Big...
Man vs Machine: Watch This 101 Year Old Mercedes Grand Prix Rumble and Slide Up The Goodwood Course
There’s just something awesome about seeing a guy like Ben Collings take the stick to a 101-year old car and give it hell on the course at Goodwood. The machine in this case is a 140hp Mercedes...
Neck Braces For Everybody: The Hoonigans Meet The AWD Hurst/Olds
It is the thing that should not be. On it’s own, before he went off-the-rails insane with carbon-fiber everything, his 1982 Cutlass Hurst/Olds clone was pretty radical. Namely, it was because...
Yard Master: The Origin Story Of The Terminal Tractor
I first saw one late one night while I was doing some not-so-legal driving around the Tacoma dock areas. On the waterfront, seeing semi-tractors hauling containers around was nothing new. You learned...
Cab Over, Cab Forward, Whatever. This 1965 Dodge A-100 Rules!
Remember Chrysler’s big push in the early 1990s about “cab forward” styling? When Chrysler acquired Lamborghini in the 1980s, they turned a styling exercise called Navajo into the...
