American Powertrain Parting Shift: Ride Along As A Guy Cruises To Work In A Detroit Diesel Powered 1963 GMC Crackerbox
We have told you the story of the GM “crackerbox” trucks with their short, stubby cabs and fairly impressive service life but we have not showed you what it is like to actually operate...
Cool Video: Watch Big MAN Truck Engines Get Assembled From The Block On Up – Inliners AND V8s!
While the German MAN brand of trucks may not be familiar to Americans, they are huge over in Europe. The company started making locomotives in the 1830s and has been an industrial giant ever since....
Vintage Drag Strip and Speed Parts Ads From The 1960s and 70s!
We recently dove face first into the BangShift east coast archives to dig up another pile or awesome match race, speed parts, and high performance ads from drag racing papers of the 1960s. These...
Watch This Backhoe Operator Deftly Lower Himself Into A Storm Runoff Channel
Backhoe operators come in all shapes and sizes. There are the guys who rent them from a local place to dig a hole in their backyard and end up hitting a gas main, there are the guys who run the...
Eargasm: Five Minutes Of Pure, Amazing, Unfettered Racing Noise – V8s, Bangers, V12s, Unreal
We often find killer racing videos that are effectively ruined by sound. Seems weird, right? How can a racing video be ruined by sound? As you well know out there, it is pretty easy. Do anything to...
Winning: This Guy Has An Engine Dyno In His Living Room And He Actually Uses It
Most of us at one time or another have done some sort of automotive job in a place where we probably shouldn’t have. Maybe we washed parts in the dishwasher, rebuilt a Holley on the dining room...
NHRA Top Fuel Champion Shawn Langdon Moves Into A Kalitta Funny Car In 2018!
(Photos by Mike Burghardt, Bob Wingfield and NHRA Media) It’s that time of the year called the Silly Season, where drivers in all forms of motorsport are rumored to be moving from team to team,...
This 1987 IHRA Pro Stock Video Features Rickie Smith and Period Pro Stock Tech!
Oh 1980s pro stock, those were the days! We seriously love the visual “trueness” that these cars had (outwardly, anyway) to the cars that fans drove into the gate to watch the race in....
Sand Thing Is Our New Favorite Third Generation Camaro Ever – Dirt Drags!
The third generation Camaro is about as versatile a car as we have ever seen in the performance realm. Drag racing, road racing, autocross, trar conversions, and now dirt drag racing have all be...
Video: This Electronically Fuel Injected, Dual Overhead Cam, Miniature V10 Is Incredible
We have showed off some absolutely killer miniature engines here before but this one may actually take the cake. You are about to see a 1/3 scale miniature V10 engine fire up, idle, and get revved on...
Watching This Massive CNC Machine Create A Crankshaft Out Of A Piece Of Billet Is An Amazing Study In Technology and Engineering
As gearheads we’re naturally attracted to machines and all things mechanical, right? Well for us there is no higher form of mechanical life form than the CNC mill. These things come in an array...
Hellacious Fiery Wreckage Video: A Chevelle Smacks Both Walls and Explodes Like the Hindenburg
We don’t know what the hell is going on this week, but we were tipped off to yet another frightening drag race wreck video that features what Brock Yates would have called, “a whole BUNCH...
Remember The 1997 Hurst Firebird? One Of The Coolest And Rarest Birds In The Flock
Every once in a while we’re reminded about a killer car that has somehow slipped between the cracks of our sieve like memories around here. In this case it is the 1997 Hurst Firebird which was...
This Video Profile Of The MadSam Aussie Drift Car Is Great – Ford Guys Rejoice!
Obviously the Australians are crazy about their skid cars. It is a pretty fascinating scene because we don’t have it up here. The guys at Street Machine Magazine recently profiled a car called...
