What’s The Best Way To Sell Shoes? How About An 550 HP V8-Swapped Toyota Minivan?
This is one of those “way out of left field” things we tend to find in the odd corners of the Internet that just makes us smile. Famous Footwear has debuted their “Momkhana”...
What Hellcat? RSI Is Now Offering A Twin-Turbo Flame-Spitting Dodge Viper TA…
There’s something about “twin-turbo Viper” that just makes us smile. Sure, we’re no closer to ever driving one than when these things started rolling off of the assembly line,...
This NAPCO Equipped 1959 Chevy Apache 3600 Is A No Nonsense, Go Anywhere Rig
Talk about cool, this truck is ice cold! A three quarter ton, 1959 Chevy Apache is a cool truck but when you add in the fact that it is also a factory NAPCO truck, the interest level (and price)...
Carnage Video: Nine Cars Wrecked In Sixty Seconds…Did This 92-Year-Old Driver Set A New Record For Parking Lot Pinball?
See that Chrysler Pacifica in the picture? The one that just took the nose clean off of the Ford C-Max and looks to be hauling ass out of the parking lot? Yeah…he’s not done yet. A...
Unhinged: Why I’m Not Meant To Be A Highly-Skilled Mechanic, A Lesson Taught To Me By A Hose Clamp.
I’ve maintained for years now that in the grand scheme of things automotive, I’m first and foremost NOT a skilled wrench. Sure, I can work on a car and yes, I tend to do better than most,...
Indiana Loses A Strip – Can The Eighth Mile At Chandler Motorsports Park Be Saved?
The drag strip at Chandler Motorsports Park in Indiana has been open for more than 50 years but as recent news tell us, the hometown drag strip will no longer be opening its gates for drag racers to...
Dynamite Run – A Documentary About the 1974 AHRA Winternationals
We got a note from pal-o-BangShift Dawn Mazi-Hovsepian cluing us in the on the fact that she unearthed and posted an totally cool old drag racing documentary film called “Dynamite Run”....
MAHLE Motorsports Introduces Ford EcoBoost 2.0L Pistons – High Tech Pistons For High Tech OEM Egines
One of the things that set MAHLE Motorsports apart from o ther piston companies is the fact that their parent company MAHLE is deeply involved with OEM production and this allows them to really...
This 1959 Fiat 600 Weighs 1,300lbs and Is Packing An Angry Little Rotary Engine In The Back
Well this one takes a pretty well established formula and chucks it right over on its head. This is not “little car, big engine” instead it is “little car, really high output little...
Roadtrip Video: The U.K.’s Car Magazine Pits A Mustang GT vs. BMW i8 vs. Lamborghini Huracan vs. Hellcat Challenger – Who Won?
It’s always curious to see what the reaction is from foreign publications when it comes to our cars. There’s the usual litany of jokes (can’t corner, subpar materials, crude) but...
Update: 1949 Cadillac Is The Standard Of The World (When It Comes To Sleepers) – A Total Q-Ship From Hell! (And Now It Is For Sale)
When Jon Sandahl called me up and said, “Hey, you should probably come over here and take a look at this thing,” in reference to a 1949 Cadillac coupe, I was a little confused but hey,...
Watch As Jay Leno Cuts Loose With James Garner’s Oldsmobile Banshee – He Even Drives The Beast On The Street!
The Oldsmobile Banshee is a freak among freaks. Set up similar to an old Baja truck, it’s roughly based on a 1969 Oldsmobile body that is shortened by two feet. They were built by Vic Hickey, a...
Top 11: No V8 Needed – A Selection Of Cars We Would Take A Different Path With
(Lead photo: Bret Kepner) I can’t speak for the other two, but in my automotive history I’ve only dealt with two vehicles that did not have V8s: a Chevy Blazer that had the 4.3 V6, and a...
Craigslist Find: A Properly Rat-Rodded 1948 International Wrecker With Minneapolis-Moline Power!
A cut down old wrecker with some hot-rodding touches and a tractor engine…if there was ever a Craigslist ad targeted straight towards Brian, I’ve yet to see it. While Brutus the Wrecker...
