Event Coverage: The 2010 KKOA Leadsled Spectacular
The KKOA Leadsled Spectacular is billed as the world’s oldest and most established Custom Car event. It was started thirty years ago and continues to thrive today as evidenced by the great...
Video Bonanza: Evel Knievel, the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Evel Knievel is an interesting character study. On the one hand there is the guy with the panache, guts, and skill to fly a too heavy motorcycle over too far a distance in front of tens of thousands...
Check it Out: A Killer Show This Weekend at HRE Wheels,Tour the Factory
If you are in the San Diego area this weekend make sure to stop by HRE Wheels on Saturday morning. They are hosting a car show and giving factory tours. HRE builds some really wild high-end stuff so...
Crazy Euro Wreckage: A Spec Racer Flies, Flips, and Tries to Kill Turn Workers
While we generally hate the hell out of “spec” racing, it does provide very tight action, expecially on road courses. That tight action can often lead to wreckage, normally it is not as...
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...
