This Airliner Takeoff From the 1990s Teeters On the Brink of Disaster
For an airline pilot, most days see at least a couple of a takeoff and landing cycles. Nearly all of them are routine and fade to memory, but we’re guessing the pilots on this Continental Airlines...
This Solid Axle Swap GMC Safari Van Is Begging To Be Your Bugout Vehicle
Sep 01, 2016Chad ReynoldsComments Off on This Solid Axle Swap GMC Safari Van Is Begging To Be Your Bugout Vehicle
I know this is going to sound sick, but there is something about the Chevy Astro Van, and their brother the GMC Safari Van, that I dig. Laid out on air ride they are cool, and now that I’ve...
Watch Georgina Buckley Suffer A Massive Stuck Throttle Wreck At The NMCA World Street Finals
Sep 01, 2016Brian Lohnes1
There are few things more terrifying in the world of racing than a throttle that’s hung open at the end of the race. Unfortunately NMCA racer Georgina Buckley experienced this situation at the...
One-Off 1951 English Ford Custom Barn Find: Check This Thing Out Now!
Sep 01, 2016Chad Reynolds6
Our buddies at Stokers Hot Rod Factory always have cool stuff in the shop. And somehow they always seem to find really bitchin hot rods in barns, fields and at swap meets that nobody else pays...
We’ve Actually Got More Bonneville Speed Week 2016 Photos. No Really, A Bunch More.
Sep 01, 2016Chad Reynolds4
It’s amazing how many photos we took and put into photo galleries during Bonneville Speed Week 2016. In fact, we only used about half of the photos we took. Maybe less actually. There is just...
Do You Have A Tremec Transmission In Your Hot Rod? This Is How You Can Shift Like A Pro
Sep 01, 2016Chad Reynolds3
Do you have a friend that can shift their stick car way quicker than you can? Or are you tired of watching guys like Kyle Tucker and Smitty click through gears like their cars are paddle shifter...
Rough Start: This 1977 Dodge Power Wagon Has The Look And Is Ready To Roll!
Sep 01, 2016Bryan McTaggart2
The Dodge D-series truck…other than minor bits here and a facelift there, between 1972 and 1993, it’s pretty much all the same. Same frames, mostly the same bodies, and generally the same...
Dirt Every Day Gets Ambitious: Cummins-Swap A TJ Wrangler, Then Drive It Underwater!
Sep 01, 2016Bryan McTaggart7
We have to give credit to Fred and crew for creativity…not that driving underwater is a new thing (it isn’t, the military was doing that decades ago) but simply because it’s...
2016 Woodward Dream Cruise: The Cruisers Pour Out Onto The Streets!
Sep 01, 2016Bryan McTaggartComments Off on 2016 Woodward Dream Cruise: The Cruisers Pour Out Onto The Streets!
By ten in the morning Woodward was in about as full of a motion as I saw the entire day: cars were cruising down the street, heading to the Roadkill Nights drag race about a mile away, a helicopter...
Farmhand Favorite: This 1973 International 1110 Is Too Clean For Words!
Sep 01, 2016Bryan McTaggart7
I’ve lived in Pennsylvania once. I was very young, and my family stayed there maybe six months, but one thing always stood out: everybody had a work truck. Everyone. My dad used his...
More Swap Fun! This Sanitary Mustang Started Life As A Four Banger And Now Has Super Coupe Power
Aug 31, 2016Brian Lohnes2
This is one of those cars that makes you smile and perhaps rub your chin a little bit at the same time. Why? It is an amazingly clean and sanitary Mustang that has been professionally built and cared...
Thornhill Dragway Launch Action: A Day At The Drags On A Very Cool Old Track
Aug 31, 2016Brian Lohnes2
(Words and photos by Doug Gregory) – I am not sure why we shot most of the launches from behind the cars. Maybe we’re more comfortable shooting in that position at this track. It could...
Big Money Bracket Action: Wheels Up Fun At The Lucas Oil Mini-Million – GALOT Motorsports Park
Aug 31, 2016Brian LohnesComments Off on Big Money Bracket Action: Wheels Up Fun At The Lucas Oil Mini-Million – GALOT Motorsports Park
(Photos by David Whealon) – It was big money and big fun at Galot Motorsports Park in North Carolina recently as the Lucas Oil Mini-Million took place, drawing some of the best sportsman drag...
This V6-powered Chevrolet S-10 Has Us Thinking Of 4.3-Based Projects!
Aug 31, 2016Bryan McTaggart1
When General Motors removed cylinders 3 and 6 from the small-block Chevrolet V8 and stuffed it into the new-for-1978 Chevrolet Malibu, performance was the last possible thing on their minds. The...