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Our Final NHRA New England Nationals Photo Coverage: Top Fuel, Funny Car, Pro Stock, Sportsman, and Pit Photos From This Sold Out NHRA National Event!

Heres our final gallery of photos from Richard Pasley’s coverage of the NHRA New England Nationals in Epping New Hampshire. If you missed any of the previous photos, use the link below to check...

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Lost Buckeye Skips Day THREE Drag and Drive Photos! Our Second Gallery of Day Three On Track Action and Checkpoints!

Here’s our second gallery of lost photos from Day 3 of Buckeye Skip’s Drag and Drive, and we’ve got plenty more where that came from! Plus, if you missed the previous photos we’ve got a link...

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A Train Wreck! How DO THEY CLEAN ONE UP?! Watch Them Move These Locomotives On Site! Insane Lifting.

While we were on Rocky Mountain Race Week a couple of weeks ago, we passed a train derailment that had happened in the not too distant past. The tracks were repaired, and some of the train wreckage...

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The Dash COMES OUT! Vintage Air Installation – Installing Air Conditioning on this 1985 Mustang GT Build!

Vintage Air has been cooling hot rods, customs, and race cars for decades now and is continually reimagining and developing new systems. But that doesn’t mean they have forgotten their tried...

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The CHEAPEST Hemi Swap EVER Hits the Road! Will This Body Swapped Dodge Actually Survive The Drive?

He’s back at it, and because I’ve done a similar type of chassis swap myself, I can’t fault him for the idea or the execution. Would I do some stuff different, sure. But I guarantee...

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More NHRA New England Nationals Photo Coverage: Top Fuel, Funny Car, Pro Stock, Sportsman, and Pit Photos From This Sold Out NHRA National Event!

(Photos by Richard Pasley) – When the NHRA brought National Event Drag Racing back to the northeast a few years ago, the crowds at the New England Nationals in Epping were off the hook. More...

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Video: We get Terminal Velocity Jet Car running 202 in the 1/8th

While we were at the Mooneyes Summer Car show, we had the chance to shoot video of the Terminal Velocity Jet Dragster running down Irwindale’s 1/8 mile dragstrip. It ran 3.96 at 202 in the...

Event Coverage: The New England Dragway All-Truck Nationals 2010

After spending about 15 hours at New England Dragway announcing a major event on Saturday, we were greeted at o’dark-thirty on Sunday by the sight of our two sons (3.5 yrs and 1.5 yrs)...

Historic Drag Video: A Trifecta of Great Footage From Green Valley Raceway

Green Valley Raceway was located in Smithfield, Texas, and operated from 1960-1986. The track was owned and operated by Bill Hielscher, the drag racer that most knew as “Mr. Bardahl” as...

eBay Find: A 1970 C-10 With 80 Original Miles

This simply has to be the lowest original mileage 1970 Chevy C-10 on the planet. Pulled out of a barn in Kansas, the seller came to own it after getting it from the estate of a man who passed away....

Craigslist Find: No Speed Racer Nooooooooooooo

Do you like acid? Do you like Corvettes? If the answer to both of those questions is yes, than we have a deal for you! For nearly thirty thousand of your hard earned dollars, you could be driving off...

Event Coverage: Mooneyes Christmas Show in July

It’s not often that Christmas comes in July, but in 2010 that is exactly what happened. The reason is because the Mooneyes Christmas Show 2009 got rained out like a mother. So, Mooneyes decided...

Video: Hot Rod Magazine Hacks a Vette…And We Get to Help!

It’s not often that a story comes along in a magazine or online that really touches people. But when Hot Rod decided to tear up a perfectly good Cadillac, in the February 1987 issue of Hot Rod...

Update:DMC Racing nears completion on Repairs to Jason Enos’s Outlaw 10.5 Mustang

See our latest updates on this story at the bottom of this page. Part I:  We were just about sick to our stomach when we heard that Jason Enos’s 1967 Mustang  had caught a case of...

Great Rant: Auto Racing and the Economy

Lots of stuff we call a “rant” doesn’t really qualify. A rant has a major point but also contains great little tangents and sidebars. This piece, written by Larry VanZandt for...

Awesome Historic Indy Video: All the Big Names Qualifying in 1964

When the news broke the other day about a “new” Dallara chassis to be used by Indy car racers in the coming years, lots of people excitedly reported on it. We didn’t because...

Retro-Awesome: Dynamic Transmission’s Clutch-Hydro Kit

While cruising YellowBullet.com recently we cam across a thread talking about Clutch-Flite and Clutch-Turbo transmissions. For those of you not in the know, racers in the 1960’s and...

Stirling Moss to Drive Race Car Just Four Months After Falling Down Elevator Shaft

Stirling Moss, the great English race car driver is 80 years old. Four months ago, he somehow fell down an elevator shaft at his house, three stories down to be exact. The fall shattered his ankles...

GM Promo Video: The 1987 Pontiac Fiero

Smell that? It’s cheese. This video produced by Pontiac to teach dealers and salespeople about the “all new” 1987 Pontiac Fiero is late 1980’s perfection. Featuring two stiff,...

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NHRA Announces Rule Changes In the Name of Safety for Four Classes

The National Hot Rod Association Tech Department has release safety related rules changes for four classes that compete with the organization. These amendments come on the heels of the passing of Top...