Bad Ass Chevelle Sleeper For Sale: Buy a 10-Second Car That Looks Like a Barge!
A couple years back, a sleepy, twin-turbo 1970 Chevelle started making the rounds on the internet. The car is truly one of the coolest Q-ships we have ever seen. It sports a twin turbo LQ9...
Bonneville 2011 Video Bonanza: Launches and Fly-Bys (Some Featuring the Handiwork of BangShifters!)
The videos are starting to roll out of Bonneville now, and we’ve scooped up a bunch of them to show you. Most are long distance fly bys but man, the sound is totally worth the price of...
Tuesday Time Killer: The Awesome Story of a Dude Who Built and Raced His Own Monster Truck in the 1980s and 1990s!
There are awesome message board threads and then there’s this, the story of Jeff Strand and the Thunder Beast monster truck, a machine that he bought as a young man, built, rebuilt, jumped,...
Cool Video: Dr Jamie Meyer of GM Shows Six Significant Performance Cars From Chevy’s History
Chevrolet turns 100 this year and the company plans to celebrate that fact loud and proud during the 2011 Woodward Dream Cruise in and around Detroit. In this video, Dr. Jamie Meyer, one of the...
Mega Gallery: The 2011 Goodguys Ohio Nationals – Columbus, Ohio
The Goodguys Ohio Nationals went down last weekend and the place was packed wall to wall with some of the coolest cars in the nation. From traditional rods to the wild morphed Chrysler Imperial of...
Humongous Parts Photos: What A Valve From a Container Ship Looks Like
We’ve all gotten that infamous e-mail forward with photos of a massive container ship engine going together. There are photos of guys standing in the cam bearings and pistons the size of a two...
Pro Mod Disaster Video: The Tindle/Cagle Uber Wreck
There are drag racing crashes and then there are drag racing CRASHES. This is the latter. The wreck involves the blown Mustang Pro Mod of Tim Tindle and the nitrous Camaro of Tori Cagle. From the...
Car Show Gallery: The 4th Annual Johnny Mac Backyard Classic
When we got invited to attend a car show held in the backyard of the home of a local business owner, we weren’t sure what to expect. How many friends can this guy have? Was it going to be a...
Bonneville 2011 Galllery: Friday and Saturday on the Salt and at the Cruise!
Well, it’s on! Speed Week has begun and thanks to the great folks at Spectre we have an opening salvo of photos to show you. Chad will be on the salt ad delivering dispatches as of tomorrow but...
The Parting Shift: A Regular Guy Shows GM How Powershifting Really Goes
In the blog item just below this one, we showed you a video from GM on how they test their manual transmissions “Woodward Ave” style. Those tests are designed to recreate the kind of...
Cool Video: How The Brutality of Woodward Avenue Still Lives in GM Manual Transmission Testing
Woodward Avenue in Detroit is one of the most hallowed spots of ground for gearheads like us. It was literally the scene of the musclecar crime in the 1960s with roaming bands of factory engineers in...
The Raybestos GTO-R Hits the Strip – You can Win This Car!!
The dudes at Raybestos have really out done themselves with their awesome 1964 GTO-R build. It is packing a 700hp LSX454 engine, $20,000 worth of NASCAR spec brakes, killer suspension, lots of custom...
Funny Video: Eight Minutes of Pace Car/Safety Car Fails
One of the great gearhead movie exchanges of all time went down between Robert Duval and Tom Cruise in, “Days of Thunder”. Duval tells Cruise to pull out on the track and hit the pace...
2011 Orlando World Street Nationals “Rescheduled” until 2012
The 2011 Orlando World Street Nationals have been effectively cancelled and the race may be run again in 2012 according to a press release on the Orlando Speed World Dragway website. Carl Weisinger...
