Killer Drag Video: Seven Minutes in Early Pro Stock Heaven
The birth of Pro Stock as a drag racing class is one of the clearest examples of mechanical evolution in racing. Starting in the early 1960s when the Big Three started funneling money into drag...
Killer Truck Video: A Pair of Hellacious Chevys Crushing Cars
There are few things cooler to our simplistic minds than watching large lifted trucks drive over cars. Call us names if you want, but the two trucks in this video, which take two divergent approaches...
Shop Tour: Custom Automotive Machine – Weymouth, Ma
We stopped by Custom Automotive Machine in Weymouth, Massachusetts, last weekend to beg a favor off shop owner and operator Dana Hard. We had managed to completely botch the removal of broken exhaust...
Road Racing Video: In-Car Action at the Rockingham Chump Car Race
Our pal Jeff Huneycutt, who is an ace freelancer and the operator of StreetMuscleAction.com sent us a cool video link of some in-car action at the Rockingham ChumpCar race. Huneycutt and crew won the...
Arnie Beswick Driven 1965 Mercury Comet A/FX Car Heads to Auction, SOHC Motor and All
We’ve been Comet crazy here over the last couple of days, but reader Phil Cooper tipped us off to one of the coolest Comets ever built. This A/FX car was raced by Arnie Beswick who is known for...
The Foose John Deere Project is Complete, Can They Put it Back?
The Chip Foose John Deere 4020 project was unveiled a little while back and frankly we didn’t say anything much about it because we were trying to figure out what the hell they had sone with...
Crazy Fail Video: Aussie Guy Almost Runs Over The Starter While Doing a Burnout
This is about as close a call as you’ll ever see at the strip. We can say that this is the only time we’ve ever seen a starter actually jump for his life to get away from a wayward car....
Columnist Tells NHRA to Ditch Four-Wide Racing, Drivers Seem to Agree
Now that the dust has settled on the four-wide NHRA national event and the opinions of racers and fans are making their way to the limelight, some of the heavy hitter media members who cover the...
Historic Drag Video: Awesome Old Footage of 427-Powered Comets and Fairlanes
After continuing to lust after the RacingJunk find Comet Cyclone we showed you a while ago, we went searching out cool Comet videos on YouTube and managed to hit the mother load. Ronnie Sox, Dyno...
RacingJunk Find: A Super Clean 1965 Mercury Comet Cyclone
We have to admit to a strange, macabre fascination involving Mercury Comet Cyclones. When we were just little BangShifters, there was a fatal accident involving one of these cars in our home town....
Event Coverage: 868 Bitchin Photos from Viva Las Vegas 13
We were seriously going to start this blog item off with Viva Las Vegas song lyrics, but decided against it. Instead, we’re not going to waste any time getting to the point, which is 860-plus ...
Event Coverage: The Chicks of Viva Las Vegas
There are always chicks at Car Shows, but at Rockabilly shows like Viva Las Vegas 13, there are tons of them dressed up in all the cool, old, sexy garb. Since we were there for the car show anyway,...
The Parting Shift: Street Driving a Pro-Shifted T5
Being a gearhead is often about making sacrifices. Take this video for example. The guy driving the car obviously races it and because of that he had the T5 transmission “Pro-Shifted” by...
