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Burnout Fail Or Win? Watch This Camaro Give It A Shot And Judge For Yourself!

Seems innocuous enough, right? A early 3rd gen Camaro, looking a touch ratty but sounding like it’s housing a fairly healthy small block, rolls up to the blocks at a burnout contest in Yankton,...

This 1960s British News Reel About Drag Racing Features Awesome Color, A Funny Announcer, And American Horsepower

Here’s some really cool vintage drag racing footage featuring top gas and top fuel slingshot dragsters that was actually made in England. In this video you’ll see the top fuel car known...

1962 Ferrari 250 GTO sells at Monterey for over $38 Million Dollars

The 1962 Ferrari GTO, considered the ultimate Ferrari to own, crossed the auction block at Monterey for $38,115,000 before premiums. Add to that a buyer’s premium of 20%, and you have a final...

Dodge Is Back In Trans-Am Racing! First Pictures Of The SRT Challenger TA2 Class Racer

Not content to let the Internet and everyone else take in the Hellcat Charger (especially just after the Hellcat Challenger news was finally slowing down), Dodge sent out another clip sure to raise...

An Original Tom McMullen Street Rodder Magazine 1932 Ford Roadster For Sale On Craigslist

Okay, this is a car we would not have expected to see for sale on Craigslist, but once again Jay found a surprise. At one of the fancy auctions, sure, but not Craigslist. According to the advertiser,...

Return To Snake River Canyon: Evel Knievel’s Failure To Be Rectified By Son Of Original Rocket Constructor And Hollywood Stunt Man

We’re not sure how we have missed this story for so long but the long and short of it is that within two months, there’s going to be another attempt made to jump the Snake River Canyon in...

Burt Munro Awarded Speed Record 36 Years After His Death – The Legend Literally Lives On

Burt Munro died 36 years ago but amazingly, he’s just recently been awarded a speed record. How? There was a math mistake made during one of his runs on a 1967 trip to Bonneville. The AMA, who...

Empire Dragway Nostalgia Gold Cup Coverage: Gassers, Funny Cars, and Door Slammers From The Historic NY Track

(Mike Brooks) – Yesterday we ran our first of two Mike Brooks’ galleries from the Empire Dragway Nostalgia Gold Cup while was held in NY a weekend or two at the old school strip. The...

A Week In The Racing Life Of Andy Frost – Cool Documentary Film Shows A Behind The Scenes Look At Racing Red Victor 3

I just spent the last 50-minutes watching the full length documentary film about Andy Frost that is sitting on the page below and I recommend that you do the same. Why? Well for starters it is an...

2014 NSRA Street Rod Nationals: From Pro Street to Pro Weird – Our Last Look At The Massive Show

(Words and photos by Doug Gregory) – You know when there are this many awesome rides at an event its just really hard to capture everything you’d like to and at the same time give everyone...

Historical Video: Development of the Chrysler K-Car

With Chrysler riding high on the Hellcat, Charger, Challenger, and 300C, it might be easy to lose sight of just how many times over the last forty years they have approached dying off. Bad designs,...

Throwback Thursday: McTaggart’s First Automotive Photo Shoot….On The Wrong Side Of The Lens

(Photos by French) Throwback Thursday has permeated my Facebook for a while now. While it can be irritating when a family member puts up a picture of you without warning, sometimes it’s pretty...

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What Would You Do With This 1961 Mack Cabover Truck? We’ve Got Some Ideas

Our friend Jay sent us this Craigslist Ad yesterday, and both Brian and I were super excited to see a cabover truck that neither of us had seen before. This 1961 Mack is one weird freak. With the...

Creating The Vision: A Look Into The Mind Of An “Automotive Manipulator”

(All images courtesy of theophiluschin.com) Ever look at a car and start to critique it, pick it apart, and dream up what you would do to it? Turn a sedan into a coupe, a car into a truck, a nip...