Racing Junk Find: The World’s Baddest Ass Pit Vehicle
Hit any racing event and you’ll see multitudes of people cruising the grounds on mini-bikes, golf carts, old mopeds and other small stuff. That’s all fine for them, but for us it is...
Jack Roush Crashes Plane, Injured
Jack Roush crashed his experimental airplane while attempting to land in Oshkosh, Wisconsin. Roush was flying in to participate in a gathering of the Experimental Aircraft Association which takes...
Event Coverage: Power Hot Rod Reunion in Malmby Sweden
When our favorite Swedish BangShifter, Jobergg, told us that he had photos and video from the Power Hot Rod Reunion in Sweden, we just couldn’t pass them up. When you look at the Swedes and...
Incredible Historic Drag Video: Ten Minutes of the 1959 March Meet!
This is some amazing stuff. The video we found is 10 minutes of 8mm footage shot at the 1959 March Meet. This event is one of the seminal events in drag racing history. Don Garlits was paid by the...
NASCAR Bans Criticism of NASCAR
According to an AP story, NASCAR made a pre-season trip to all of their teams and told them that criticism of NASCAR, the management, the cars, the temperature of the soft drinks served at the track,...
Video Bonanza: Great 1980’s TV Car Stunts
There wasn’t a better time in world history to be a stunt man than the 1980’s. Long before the advent of computer effects and complex filming processes, stunt men made it happen. If you...
Retro Gallery: The 2009 Loring Timing Association Land Speed Meet
We’re counting down the minutes before we get to turn our faithful Ford truck north and haul ass for about eight hours to reach Limestone, Maine. That’s where the action will be this...
Auto Trader Classics Find: A ’29 Model A That’s Neat as a Pin
Ever look at a car and just think, “That’s nice.” If you have than you’ll completely undertand our reaction to seeing this sweet little 1929 Model A for sale on...
Great Read: A Look Back at the Career of Ohio George Montgomery
There are few living drag race legends that have the resume of “Ohio” George Montgomery. He was one of the primary movers and shakers of the gasser era, led the class in many evolutionary...
Ford Posts $2.6B Profit, Moons General Motors HQ
The good ju-ju continues at Ford as the company announced they have posted a $2.6-billion profit for the second quarter of 2010. Increased sales, leaner structure, and continued strong reaction to...
Historic Drag Video: Muscle Car Drag Race Action from Montana’s Glendive Drag Strip Circa the Late 60s
This is some neato footage from Glendive Drag Strip that was taken sometime in the late 1960s. The coolest part about the video is that it’s all muscle car on muscle car action with some hard...
Event Coverage: Long Beach Swap Meet July 2010
The Long Beach Swap Meet is always a must attend affair here in Southern California, and this month cool temps and overcast skies meant the swap meet was nice and comfy while cruising the aisles for...
What the Hell is a Bill Caswell? An Interview With the Bucks-Down Rally Hero
When we caught up with Bill Caswell, he sounded like Joe Cocker during a third encore. The night before our interview, Caswell had rounded up all his pals and set out to drain Chicago’s Tequila...
Barnstormin’: Monster Trucks, Turbos, and a Sanctioning Body on the Rocks
I’m going to start this column off with an admission. I was utterly impressed with monster trucks last weekend. No fake impressed, but really, honestly, holy f’n crap impressed watching a...
