BREAKING NEWS: Project Sick Seconds Lives — Titanic Showdown Set For Hot Rod Drag Week 2010
The much whispered about and wondered about 2010 Hot Rod Drag Week Project Sick Seconds Camaro of Denny Terzich is alive and we have the photos to prove it. The beautiful Camaro was making...
Wretched Excess Video: A Triple Allison V-12 Powered Pulling Tractor
You’ve seen tractors with a bunch of blown Hemi engines powering the rear wheels. You may have ever seen one or two with radial aircraft engines, but this is a first for us. A European tractor...
NE Dragway Sanctioning Switch Big News, NHRA National Event Coming to Epping
The rumors raised eyebrows, the confirmation raised excitement levels, and now the announcement that the NHRA will contest a national event at Epping, New Hampshire’s, New England Dragway in...
Craigslist Find: An Unstoppable 1944 Autocar 4×4 Semi-Tractor
Forgive us for our love of large, incredibly slow, weird trucks. We can’t shake it, and when we saw this totally odd 1944 Autocar Army truck, we were in lust. We nearly passed out when we read...
Site of the Week: Cold War Relics
We met BangShift forum member Dave Dauphinee while attending the LTA land speed racing event in Loring, Maine. Unlike most people that meet us, Dave didn’t run screaming and yelling into the...
Rally Wreckage: A Brake Failure Sends a Rally Car Spectator Bowling
Amazingly, no one was hurt in this video, but man they came close! Apparently the car in this video suffered a brake failure of some kind, causing it to overcook the corner and head right toward a...
War on Racetracks: Town of Paris Presents Great Lakes Dragaway With Noise and Light Proposal
Historic Great Lakes Dragaway which has been in existence for more than 50 years in Union Grove, Wisconsin, is locked in a fight for life with the town of Paris, Wisconsin. The town is fighting the...
Great Thread: Antique Race Boats Are Truly Hot Rods on Water
Like nostalgia drag racing or old timey stock car racing, the world of boat racing is chock full of vintage equipment that thundered down waterways in years past. Again, like those other forms of...
RacingJunk Find: A Crazed, Turbocharged, Speed Buggy Autocross Killer (w/Video)
We’ve got go-karts on the brain recently, and there’s a reason, which you’ll find out about next week. That being the case, we went hunting for neat stuff on RacingJunk and found...
Cool Visualization Software Allows Users to See How Air Moves Around a Car
We’re not going to pretend to know lots about this cool software that we never knew existed before. We seem to think that it is new, but maybe it’s twenty years old and we’re just...
Project Car Spotlight: Joe Grippo’s 1970 Mustang
After highlighting Scott Liggett’s cool 1970 Caprice project yesterday, we needed to swap coasts and show the hot rod of our other major photo contributor, Pennsylvanian Joe Grippo. Joe is one...
English Driver Died Attempting Car Jump Across Harbor
In a story that is both sadly tragic and humorous, a 20-year old English man was killed when he attempted to jump his car off a pier and over a 30ft section of a harbor in Cornwall, England....
Great Vintage Video: Chevy Vega Development Footage From 1970!
We’ve featured vintage film from the old “Car and Track” show before, but this could be the coolest ever for a variety of reasons. As usual, Bud Lindemann leads us off on the...
New Holland to Unveil Hydrogen Powered Farm Tractor Prototype
New Holland has developed a new tractor called the NH2 that is powered by hydrogen. The tractor is set to make a public debut at the 2010 Farm Progress Show held in Boone, Iowa. The working prototype...
