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Massive 1200+hp Turbo-Diesel powered Race TRUCKS attack the Goodwood Festival of Speed!

It’s amazing what you can do with a really big truck. After highlighting one of the world’s fastest mini trucks in a video today, now we are highlighting absolutely huge trucks, doing...

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Is This 1,400 horsepower Toyota, The Fastest Land Speed Racing Mini-Truck In The World? Larry Chen Check Out This Bonneville Speed Week Machine!

I’ve loved this truck since I first saw it on the salt at Bonneville a few years ago, and it continues to impress me every time I see it. It’s not just that it is fast, because it’s...

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SMALL TIRE GANGSTERS GO FOR THE $20K+ AGAIN!!!! LOSER’S BRACKET AT DIG OR DIE DIG DAYS 7 AT THE ROCK

If you like Dig or Die coverage as much as we do, then check out this race video from our friends at Spoold Media. Keep in mind, this race is worth more than $20,000 and it’s the losers bracket...

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Leroy Engine Teardown: Did Cleetus Tear Up This HED Beast? Or Is It In Great Shape Still And Ready For More Boost?

Anybody who knows Cleetus, knows that he can tear up just about anything. I can’t even begin to guess the number of engines he’s blown up over the years, but it’s an insane number....

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8×8 and 6×6 Truck Trials Competition: These Bad Ass Rigs Take On All The Mud, Climbs, And Obstacles You Can Throw At Them!

If you have never seen the Tatra truck trials, you are missing out. These 6×6 trucks are truly something special as they have insane suspension, locking diffs, and the ability to ascend and descend...

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Testing TikTok versus Instagram Tool Hacks: Testing a Fractal Vise versus a Dual Battery Behemoth. Are Either Worth Having?

You can imagine that being a tool testing channel on YouTube means digging through tons of comments telling you that you are wrong about the tools you test, or are testing the wrong ones all...

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Unhinged: A History Of Dirt Bikes And ATV’s, or How I Survived My Own Childhood

Excepting go-karts and an adventure in a “borrowed” Mustang II when I was five, my first real taste of motorsports occurred shortly after I turned ten years old, when my stepfather...

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Kansas Highway Patrol Arrested A Man For Doing 176 MPH…After His Engine Blew Up

“Play stupid games, win stupid prizes”. Such is the case of a man that Kansas Highway Patrol  arrested on Sunday after he was clocked driving at 176 miles an hour on Interstate 35 near...

Watch Brock Yates, Circa 1982 Describe The Way Real Race Fans Feel About Wrecks And The Drivers Who Suffer Them

Brock Yates is now and forever will be one of my favorite automotive journalists. From his books like Sunday Driver and Cannonball to his work for various magazines and his television coverage of...

This 1972 Chevy C10 Mad Max Truck Is Either Insane Or The Very Definition Of A Hot Rod – You Decide!

BangShifter David Brown saw this wild creation on Craigslist and decided to send us the link. We are glad that he did because we feel like this truck will be a very polarizing creation. In our eyes,...

Random Car Review: 1983 Ferrari BB 512i – My Final Answer To The “Pick A Car From The Year You Were Born” Question

You know that game: “Pick one car from the year you were born!” It’s fine for you older types, because it’s easy to select a cool car. In 1983 the pickings are pretty damn...

Video: Watch A ProCharged Pontiac Engine Make 2200+ HP On Steve Morris’s Dyno!

There’s awesome and then there is TOTALLY FRIGGIN’ AWESOME. This video, featuring a 2,200hp dyno pull from a 510ci Pontiac engine equipped with a ProCharger F3 falls in the latter...

This Escort Goes For A Very Violent Crash At The 2014 Urjalan Society Competiton Rally

Jarkko Lankinen and Kari Salminen probably bought their roll cage builder a significant amount of whatever the hell they wanted after this particularly brutal crash at the 2014 Urjalan Rally in...

Clean Up The Install Of Your Edlebrock Carb With This New Inlet Line Kit – Pro Grade Looking Install!

Everyone loves finishing a job and admiring a clean install job. You know what we are talking about, especially if we’re referencing wiring, fuel lines, brake lines, or any other work that...

This 500hp, Turbo-Rotary Powered, 1979 Toyota Corolla Is Professionally Built And Totally Awesome

Ok, now THIS is a cool little car that would be load and loads of fun on the street and the strip. For starters, there are about 15 1979 Toyota Corollas left on the planet and exactly one of them is...

The Cost Of Not Doing Proper Maintenance: This Is What The Inside Of An Audi TT’s Engine Looks Like When You Don’t Change The Oil

This, folks, is what 83,000-plus miles of driving wear and tear does to the oil of your engine. It cooks it, reduces it, until it’s little more than reconstituted dinosaur paste that...

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FY Racing’s Sno*Drift Video Captures A Great Look At Life Behind The Scenes For A Rally Team

Going behind the scenes of a racing team is the only way to get the entire story of what it takes to get man and machine to glory, and there are far more players that anyone would normally realize....

Monster Truck History Lesson! Check Out These 1980s Monster Truck Photos From An Event You May Have Seen On Video!

(Words and photos by Doug Gregory) – Here is another installment of the series showcasing photos I took when my years were much less.  I am going to guess the year was either 1983 or 1984....

Did You Have A Flying Car Miss You By Inches? Are You Unfazed By That? Must Be Another Day In Russia!

What is it about Russians that causes them to have catastrophic wrecks, the kind of which wouldn’t look out of place at a rally, and have a completely nonchalant attitude about it? These four...

This Turbocharged LS Powered Mud Truck Has Old School Looks But Ridiculous Modern Power

Mud guys and drag racers have more in common than they know, especially when it comes to horsepower. Both factions want as much as they can make and they aren’t afraid to use it. The mud guys...