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Wanna See Inside Alex Taylor’s 3,000 Horsepower Big Block Chevrolet? Check Out The New Parts And Build Right Here.

Everyone knows Alex Taylor’s cool 6-second 1955 Chevrolet that she and the Taylor family put together for Drag and Drive events, as this thing has been a beast. Sure it took some time to iron...

Watch This 1950s Chevrolet Promotional Film For The Relatively Short-lived Turboglide Automatic Transmission

So wait a second, you are thinking. There’s the Powerglide and the Turbo-hydramatic series of GM automatics, right? What’s this Turboglide business you ask? In super basic terms it was a...

Watch This Racer Suffer A Transmission Explosion From Inside The Car

It does not matter where you are racing or what you are racing, things can go bad in an instant. This video is a graphic example of what can happen when a transmission fails and fails big time on the...

Watch The Oddball Banter Brothers Side-Seater Tractor In Action At The Indy Super Pull 30+ Years Ago

It is not exactly a hot take to say that Ralph and Dave Banter were the best team that tractor pulling has ever seen. The guys stacked up championships like cordwood, they were incredible innovators...

Watching This Mazda 767b 4-Rotor Making A Dyno Pull Is Even Crazier Than Seeing It On A Racetrack

For whatever reason, we’ve always had a soft spot in our heart for race cars that were crazy, innovative, and largely unsuccessful. We have an even bigger spot for those that are crazy,...

QA1 Acquires Speedtech Performance USA To Create A Suspension Systems Super Power That Provides Even More Options For Customers

Big News in the suspension world came out yesterday with the public announcement of QA1’s acquisition of Speedtech Performance USA. Everyone knows about QA1’s offerings for street,...

As If Kibbetech Didn’t Already Build Cool Enough Stuff, Now They Have Gone And Built A Trophy Truck! Big Power, Big Speed, Big Travel!

The crew at Kibbetech have been a part of the high end off-road game for a long time. They build ultra rad pre-runners and street trucks with real travel, real power, and some of the coolest high-end...

Big Torque: Watch This Massive, Old Hall-Scott Rail Car Engine Fire Up And Clack Away

There’s just something about massive old engines that you have to love. In this case we’re looking at a Hall-Scott rail car engine that likely dates from around 1910 or thereabouts....

Video: Watch AC/DC’s Brian Johnson Make Mincemeat Of Other Competitors In A Bad Ass Pilbeam Road Racer!

Lots of car guys love the hard rocking tunes of AC/DC, in fact both Chad and I are among that group. As if we needed another reason to dig the jams, it turns out that Brian Johnson is a radically...

FREE, LIVE, BIG MONEY BRACKET RACING: Great American Stars and Stripes New Year’s Spectacular – Saturday

There are only a couple of races happening before the clock strikes midnight on Sunday to ring in the new year and while we’re sure 2024 is going to be awesome, 2023 isn’t done yet!...

Iconic Racer And Team Owner Don Schumacher Dies At 79: Motorsports Icon Don Schumacher Leaves Lasting Legacy After Battle with Cancer

JUPITER, Fla. (December 21, 2023) – It is with heavy hearts that the Schumacher family announce the passing of motorsports icon Don Schumacher. The NHRA team owner and Funny Car pioneer had spent...

Don Schumacher, Transformational Force In Professional Drag Racing As Boss, Owner, Manufacturer Dies At 79

Don Schumacher, a one man force of nature in the sport of NHRA drag racing for more than 50 years passed away on December 20th due to illness related to a protracted cancer battle, he was 79 years...

An Amazing Tale: The Story Of The Rotodyne, The Vertical Take Off Airliner That Almost Made It (Video)

When we think of failed aeronautical innovations we normally put them in the same category known as, “stuff that could not actually fly.” Well this video and this story will stand as...

Holley’s New Product Showcase at SEMA 2023 – Check Out All The Cool New Parts And Accessories They Debuted This Year!

The Holley Performance brands were out in force at the 2023 SEMA Show, where they debuted a bunch of new products, and won several awards. We’re talking everything from fuel system components...