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Our Final NHRA New England Nationals Photo Coverage: Top Fuel, Funny Car, Pro Stock, Sportsman, and Pit Photos From This Sold Out NHRA National Event!

Heres our final gallery of photos from Richard Pasley’s coverage of the NHRA New England Nationals in Epping New Hampshire. If you missed any of the previous photos, use the link below to check...

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Lost Buckeye Skips Day THREE Drag and Drive Photos! Our Second Gallery of Day Three On Track Action and Checkpoints!

Here’s our second gallery of lost photos from Day 3 of Buckeye Skip’s Drag and Drive, and we’ve got plenty more where that came from! Plus, if you missed the previous photos we’ve got a link...

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A Train Wreck! How DO THEY CLEAN ONE UP?! Watch Them Move These Locomotives On Site! Insane Lifting.

While we were on Rocky Mountain Race Week a couple of weeks ago, we passed a train derailment that had happened in the not too distant past. The tracks were repaired, and some of the train wreckage...

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The Dash COMES OUT! Vintage Air Installation – Installing Air Conditioning on this 1985 Mustang GT Build!

Vintage Air has been cooling hot rods, customs, and race cars for decades now and is continually reimagining and developing new systems. But that doesn’t mean they have forgotten their tried...

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The CHEAPEST Hemi Swap EVER Hits the Road! Will This Body Swapped Dodge Actually Survive The Drive?

He’s back at it, and because I’ve done a similar type of chassis swap myself, I can’t fault him for the idea or the execution. Would I do some stuff different, sure. But I guarantee...

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More NHRA New England Nationals Photo Coverage: Top Fuel, Funny Car, Pro Stock, Sportsman, and Pit Photos From This Sold Out NHRA National Event!

(Photos by Richard Pasley) – When the NHRA brought National Event Drag Racing back to the northeast a few years ago, the crowds at the New England Nationals in Epping were off the hook. More...

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Want To Make Your 2015-2016 Challenger Really Sing? Flowmaster Has You Covered!

Engineering a modern exhaust system to be factory fitting, factory quality, and also better than the factory in performance is tough work but the gang at Flowmaster has been at it for decades and...

Watch This Great Film From The 1957 NASCAR Daytona Beach Race

It would be simple to call this a video from an old Daytona 500 but that’s really not what it is. No, this is a video from the 1957 NASCAR Daytona Beach race which later became the American...

Watch As Nissan’s NV Cargo X Van Goes Off-Roading In The Wilds Of Arizona!

When it seems like every other full-size van manufacturer has abandoned ship for a European-style design, Nissan has actually embraced it with the NV-series, which is more or less a breadbox plunked...

Watch The Opening Four Minutes Of The 1965 Winternationals As Shown On Wide World Of Sports

If this isn’t the single coolest gem I have ever extracted from the mines of YouTube than it has to be damned close to the coolest. This is the actual footage from the 1965 ABC Wide World of...

Dodge Announces Durango SRT – 475hp SUV That We’ve Been Expecting For A While

This is not exactly shocking news that Dodge has announced the creation of the Durango SRT. McTag and others have been following this one for a while now and the end result is a 475hp SUV that will...

BangShift (Off) Road Test: The 2017 Ram 2500 Power Wagon

(Photos by Dave Nutting and Tony Sestito) – Athletes come in all shapes and sizes. From the string bean marathon runners to the brutes that power lift twice their body weight, there’s a...

And He Stuck The Landing: This High-Flying Chevrolet Lumina Just Might Be The Coolest One Out There!

When the description of the YouTube video of a car being jumped includes the phrase “KID LIVES!!”, you watch the video. It’s not because you want to see whether or not the uploader...

Fast Friends: Krista Baldwin To Race NHRA Winternationals In A/Fuel With Support From Baldwin Filters and McLeod

Our pal Krista Baldwin will be appearing at the NHRA Winternationals this coming weekend in an A/Fuel dragster for the second year in a row, which is awesome. Baldwin is the daughter of the late...

Wheelie Video! This Is A Collection Of Cool Wheelstands From The 2016 Season In Australia

While their toilets may swirl in the wrong direction, they may thoroughly enjoy Vegemite, and they steer their cars on the wrong side, Australians are as awesome and hardcore as American hot rodders....

Rough Start: A 1968 Pontiac Catalina Hardtop Is A Great Choice For A New Sled!

I wasn’t looking for anything in particular while searching for this Rough Start find. In fact, the field of finalists that I had located was nice and diverse: a $400 Chevrolet LUV truck that...

This 1960 Cadillac DeVille Convertible Is As Classy As It Is Cool

Both Chad and I love us some classic Cadillac action. The massive cars have a presence about them and for our money, the styling from the 1940s right into the era of the land barges of the 1970s was...

Ford Has Gone SUV Nuts: New Expedition Has Been Shown, And It’s Only The Tip Of The Iceberg!

(Photos: Ford Motor Company) Apparently the theme of the Chicago Auto Show is “new sport-utility vehicle”, because that’s all the news we’ve been seeing so far. Lohnes touched...

Project “Great Pumpkin” Mustang: Step Two Is Making A Sacrifice To The Pony Car Gods

We are a couple of weeks into work on the Great Pumpkin, our 1980 Mustang Ghia, and it’s been a bit of a rollercoaster ride, to be honest. We’ve had good days where we make progress and...

Awesome Historic Drag Footage: Home Videos From The 1972 NHRA Winternationals – Wild Willie, All The Great Heroes Of Yesteryear!

Wow, is this awesome stuff! I happened to stumble upon this 15-minute home video made at the 1972 NHRA Winternationals by a pair of Australian brothers who traveled over to take in the race. Their...