BREAKING NEWS: Captain Jack McClure Will Race His Famous Rocket Go Kart In Two Weeks At Motec Word Finals In Florida
WOW! About six months ago, Captain Jack McClure contacted us and said that he was close in getting permission to run his famed hydrogen peroxide rocket kart at a drag strip here in the USA for the...
In Japan They Run Top Fuel Cars On Unprepped Surfaces And The Results Are As Wild As You’d Expect (Video)
Yes, there are top fuel cars in Japan. Yes, they get run. No they don’t prep the tracks…at all. Why? People we have spoken to told us that prepping the track is viewed as...
SEMA 2013: Brian’s Favorite Cars and Trucks From The 2013 SEMA Show
Editor’s note: As busy and completely insane as 2014 has been, I can remember shooting every one of these photos last year at the SEMA show. I am sure looking forward to any surprises that the...
SEMA 2013 Mini-Feature: Galpin Ford’s Recreation Of The Awesome Backup Pickup Wheelstander Rules
Editor’s note: Our 2014 SEMA show coverage will begin in earnest on Monday, so this weekend we’re looking back at least year’s show to get you revved up! So the SEMA 2013 hits keep...
This Pulling Truck Has A Giant LED Screen On The Front For Spectators To See Engine Vitals And A V8 That Revs To Nearly 10,000 RPM
So we love truck pulling here and you know that. You know that because we have shared hundreds of videos over the years of creations big and small pulling the sled. This is something entirely new...
Roadkill! Freiburger And Finnegan Are Back With An Outtake Show, Plus Two Big Teasers
Normally, an outtake show is essentially where the stars phone in an episode, but the guys at Roadkill had a good reason to: they have amassed tons of great footage over the years that had not been...
Craigslist Find: A Guy In Las Vegas Is Selling Some Sweet Projects – Which Would You Take Home From SEMA
One of the things I torture myself with each year before SEMA is looking at Craigslist ads in the Las Vegas area to see all of the cool stuff that is for sale and could be brought home from SEMA. I...
Bootlegger Cams Releases Sneak Peek Teaser For Third and Final Portion Of Video Trilogy – How Does It End?
We’ve been keeping you abreast of all the fun stuff going on with the Bootlegger camshaft line from the different cams that are available to the cool short films that have been released and...
The Nurburgring Has Been Sold For The Second Time This Year, To A Russian Billionaire
The Nurburgring has a new majority stake owner, in the form of a Russian billionaire who just so happens to be an automotive enthusiast. Viktor Kharitonin, a pharmaceutical mogul, purchased two...
How Successful Is The Hellcat? First Numbers Have Been Announced…
When the Dodge Challenger Hellcat was announced this year, it went without saying that there would be some kind of demand for a car with over 700hp that looked as good as the Challenger, and...
The RideTech Brigade: A Look At Some Of The Optima Ultimate Street Car Invitational Competitors Underpinned By RideTech Components
(Competitor descriptions by Rodney Prouty – Photo credit: Ridetech and Popular Hot Rodding) – In about one week, the Las Vegas Motor Speedway will be transformed into ground zero for the...
Project Violent Valiant SEMA 2014 Thrash: The Final Prep Before The World Sees This Angry Mopar!
It was EXACTLY one year ago today when we showed the body of what has not become Project Violent Valiant getting sand blasted and prepped before being sent back to Hot Rod Chassis and Cycle for Kevin...
Another One Down: The New York Times Kills Off Their Auto Section
Another casualty of the print world was announced, as The New York Times has decided to end publication of the Autos section at the beginning of the year, citing a need to consolidate costs and to...
2014 Boonesborough Boogie Nationals Coverage – Just Muscle Cars
(Words and photos by Doug Gregory) – Let me start with I didn’t not shoot more Chevy than everything else in this category. There simply was MORE Chevy stuff than anything else. When you...
