ECTA Ohio Mile Action Coverage: Cars, Bikes, Trucks, Records
(By Doug Gregory) – Only one more article left in our coverage from the last Ohio Mile at Wilmington Air Park. The third-generation GM F-body have been a fairly popular platform for land...
Project “Great Pumpkin” Mustang: Step One Is Getting Our Forlorn Fox Back On The Road
Our 1980 Mustang hasn’t had the most comfortable life in the last few years. It’s lived in a shed (the sketchy, wasp-filled number that was the home of our Imperial when I yanked out the...
Ever Wonder Why Cop Cars Have Push Bars? Here’s A Video Example
(By Greg Rourke) – I was a truck driver for a while. The perception is big semi trucks can drive through anything, but reality is it doesn’t take much to reduce them to 80,000 pounds...
South Georgia Motorsports Park Hit By Tornado – Luxury Boxes Annihilated, Tower OK
A day and night of wild weather in the southeast has left South Georgia Motorsports Park a mess but (thankfully) largely intact. A tornado struck the track and hammered the local area causing lots...
Great Save! Two PDRA Pro Nitrous Racers Seem Headed For Certain Destruction But Emerge Unscathed
The PDRA’s crazed brand of eighth mile drag racing has provided lots of hair raising moments over the years but few of them have looked as ominous as this one and ended as happily. In the video...
Tank Talk: Here’s a Look At Rick’s Tanks Sweet Second Gen F-Body Tank, Designed To Alleviate Modern Build Issues
The fuel tank business is really interesting because they are so much more than just vessels to lug your car’s fuel around in. Perhaps back in the days when carbs were gravity fed and the tanks...
During WWII The Germans Used Tiny Remote Controlled Tanks As Rolling Bombs (Video Of GIs Riding One!)
Just when you think that you have a pretty good handle on lots of the weaponry and innovations that came out of WWII you learn that the Germans were using small, remote controlled tanks packed with...
This Fox Body Mustang Sleeper Is A Roll Cage And Overdrive Away From Street Car Perfection
We can’t get over how clean the original interior is on this cool 1992 Ford Mustang sleeper, and we love the 6.0 LS swap that is super simple with a carb and some nitrous. It runs deep in the...
You Thought The Lil’ Red Express Was The Hot Ticket Truck In The Seventies? How About A Ford Indy Pace Truck – Half Ton And 460 Power!
The story of how the Dodge managed to turn the D-series pickup into some of the most exciting performance products of the late 1970s is well known: the company found a loophole that allowed trucks...
How Would You Build It? This 1976 Chevrolet Malibu Is Near-Stock And Ready For A Build!
They might not have jumped in value the way they were expected to about ten years ago, but the 1973-77 GM A-bodies aren’t any worse off because of that. In fact, if anything, now is an even...
ECTA Ohio Mile Coverage: More Cars, More Records, More Cool Photos!
(Words and photos by Doug Gregory) – Part 4 of our photo collection from the last ECTA Ohio Mile. One of the things we will miss most is Wilmington and the surrounding communities. They...
Classic YouTube: Pan American’s First 747 Flight Occurred On This Day In 1970
It wasn’t the Concorde, but the Boeing 747 might as well have been when it was rolled out of the hangar in Everett, Washington in September 1968. Compared to the Boeing 707s and Douglas DC-8s...
Watch A Crazy Irishmen Try To Keep His Car From Being Towed By Driving It Off The Truck!
(By Greg Rourke) – Sometimes I run across something blogworthy on Youtube, then find the vid that shows up next is even better. Today was one of those days. We showed some cats that...
