Best of BS 2016: This Naturally Aspirated Ultra Street Fairlane Thunderbolt Clone Run Five Flat In The Eighth
Jul 04, 2016Brian Lohnes10
One of the craziest races in all of 2015 was the Outlaw Street Car Reunion which was held in Memphis last March. This was the famous “3s in the freeze” race where Jason Michalek ran his...
Best of BS 2016: Heresey At It’s Finest As A Rotary-Powered Chevy Nova Rolls Down The Quarter-Mile!
Jul 03, 2016Bryan McTaggart7
I swear, I watched this video several times, trying to see if someone dubbed over the audio of a well-built rotary motor over a Chevy Nova’s dragstrip run, and for the life of me, if it was,...
Best of BS 2016: Video – Everything Perfect About Vintage Racing – Sideways, Historical Awesomeness
Jul 03, 2016Brian Lohnes2
(By Eric Rood) – The SportsCar Vintage Racing Association (SVRA) has quietly put together a tremendous little YouTube channel with great video recaps from their events, but this...
Best of BS 2016: An E-Mail Manifesto On The IHRA Saga So Good We Had To Print It
Jul 03, 2016Brian Lohnes19
(Editor’s Note: We get plenty of email from readers and it ranges from people calling us morons, to people insulting our mothers, to spam and every now and again something that stops us...
Best of BS 2016: Video Full Of Bitchin Engines You May Never Have Seen Before
Jul 03, 2016Chad Reynolds3
Ever see a GMC 12 cylinder engine in person? Ever hear of them? Unlike the monsters folks are making from two engines or billet, this was a casting from GMC. And that’s just scratching the...
Best of BS 2016: See How A Student Crew Landed A B-58 Hustler With Damaged Landing Gear After Fourteen Hours In The Air!
Jul 03, 2016Bryan McTaggartComments Off on Best of BS 2016: See How A Student Crew Landed A B-58 Hustler With Damaged Landing Gear After Fourteen Hours In The Air!
If there is one thing that will put the truest icy spike of fear into your spine, it is when something breaks on the aircraft you are operating. I once had the cable that operates the rudder on a...
Best of BS 2016: Watch A Disguised Petter Solberg Scare The Daylights Out Of Mechanics
Jul 03, 2016Brian Lohnes6
While this is not the first time someone has disguised a world famous driver and used him to scare unsuspecting victims, it never gets old to us. This time the driver is 2003 World Rally Championship...
Best of BS 2016: Watch A V8 Powered VW Pre-Runner Break Every Law Known In San Diego
Jul 03, 2016Brian Lohnes19
UPDATE: YEAH, THIS GUY WENT TO JAIL. Blame Charles Wickam for this one. This short film titled “Urban Assault” shows an LS powered VW pre-runner that goes completely mental through the...
Best of BS 2016: Remote-Controlled Toyota Hilux Drives Underwater, Under The Ice!
Jul 03, 2016Bryan McTaggart3
A lesson I learned as a kid playing with electric-powered remote-controlled cars: electrical components plus water and mud equals shortened lifespan of the remote-controlled vehicle…and...
Best of BS 2016: Mustang GT350 Plus Mickey Thompson Drag Radials Plus Nitrous Equals 10s!
Jul 03, 2016Brian Lohnes3
One of the cool things that always happens when new performance models come out are the “firsts”. The first people to get one to the drag strip is a big one and then the elapsed time...
Best of BS 2016 – Jamie Whincup Takes His Australian V8 Supercar And Enters An Aussie Burnout Contest
Jul 03, 2016Chad Reynolds5
Any hot rodder worth his salt knows how to do a burnout. Your first one is a right of passage. It’s like losing your virginity. But doing burnouts at the level that the Aussies have taken it to...
Scrapple, Your Guide To The “meh”-Worthy News! This Week: Bad VW, Bad Subaru, And Badass Corvette!
Jul 02, 2016Bryan McTaggart4
It’s July already?! Yes sir, it is…if the wilting thermometer didn’t give you that hint, your neighbor….you know, the kid who just spent his entire paycheck at a sketchy...
The Ultimate Roadtrip Vehicle? Check Out This Ford E-Series Dually That Is Packing A Powerstroke And A Quigley 4WD System!
Jul 02, 2016Bryan McTaggart5
I’ve been semi-joking around about a BangShift Command Vehicle, the kind of ride that we could take from race to race in comfort, that could operate all of our systems in place and still be...
Hot Rod Garage Jams A Supercharged Mill Into The Crusher Camaro – 700+ Wheel Horsepower!
Jul 02, 2016Bryan McTaggartComments Off on Hot Rod Garage Jams A Supercharged Mill Into The Crusher Camaro – 700+ Wheel Horsepower!
It only seems like yesterday that the Crusher Camaro, that other bright yellow GM product that has been in the magazines forever, was getting a new engine courtesy of Mast Motorsports. In fact, it...












