Bad News: The AMA Dragbike Series Closes Down
While it is true that we’re not exactly motorcycle mavens around here, we love stuff that is fast and loud, so we can at least appreciate race bikes. In fact, we have more than a couple friends...
Historic Drag Video: Amazing Early 1960s Drag Footage From Australia
American and Australians are kindred hot rodding spirits and this totally awesome early 1960s drag racing video from Oz proves it. Shot at two drag strips, Pakenham and Riverside, you’ll see...
James Garner’s Baja Olds 442 Rides Again, We Go Baja Group 6 Car Crazy
As far as neatnik stuff that has largely been forgotten by history, the old Group 6 Baja desert racing cars rank very high. While we’re not 100% sure on the rule book regulations, our eyes...
Dave McClelland joins the Wally Parks Museum Board
The Wally Parks NHRA Motorsport Museum is one of the coolest must see hot rodding spots in the country, and now Dave McClelland and Tom McKernan, CEO of Automobile Club of Southern California, are...
Video: Ridetech brings us Power Tour, Autocross, and the Midwest Muscle Car Challenge
Our boys at Ridetech not only build the coolest suspension systems on the planet, they also make some cool videos while on the road promoting their products and hanging out with hot rodders. Three of...
RacingJunk Find: A 1972 Deuce and a Half on 53-inch Tires
Old military deuce and a half trucks rule all. Sure they’re big and slow and ride like Fred Flintstone’s car, but the word unstoppable keeps coming to mind when we think of them as well....
Detroit Power Video: The Greatest Truck Pull Footage Ever
If this were just a video of an International big rig pulling a weight sled it would be cool. If that International weren’t four wheel drive and equipped with what appear to be monster truck...
Melted Car Gallery: A 1957 Chevy Wagon Cooked Well Done
After spending the weekend surrounded by kick ass race cars, hot rods, and muscle machines, it is only natural that we’d be giddy to check out a 1957 Chevy wagon that was half melted in a fire...
Caption this Photo: No Sleeping on the Job!
Man, good help is hard to find! As Chad and I prepared for last weekend’s Holley NHRA National Hot Rod Reunion at Beech Bend Raceway in Bowling Green, Kentucky, we were thinking that with the...
Book Review: The Man Who Supercharged Bond by Paul Kenney
We like expanding our automotive horizons when possible, so after we were told that a copy of the limited release book, “The Man Who Supercharged Bond: The Extraordinary Story of Charles...
Auto Trader Classics Find: A Historic 1970 Pontiac Firebird Road Racer, The BFG Tire Bird
It’s OK, you can stop looking. We’ve found the coolest 1970 Pontiac Firebird in the world. This restored racer has some interesting history under its belt, like being the first production...
Crazy Video: A Twin-Engine 1956 Ford Truck
Some projects make us scratch our heads and wonder why on Earth the builder spent the time and energy to stick it together. Then there are those projects so totally crazy that they have to be...
Caption These Photos: Chad Attempts Non-Verbal Communication
While shooting photos on Saturday of the Holley NHRA National Hot Rod Reunion, we looked across the track to see our man Chad apparently having some sort of seizure. As it turns out he was trying to...
Barnstormin’: Heat, Sweat, and The Nitro Time Machine
My clothes no longer reek of nitro, the SPF 90 sunblock has finally left my pores, and another memorable weekend in Bowling Green, Kentucky has drawn to a close. The 2010 Holley NHRA National Hot Rod...
