Scots Test Out Amphibious Bus, We’ll Watch From Shore
Human beings have the strange ability to continually develop new and fascinating ways of transportation. We also have the ability to create modes of transportation that could lead to the grisly...
Kids Crash Car Into House, Church Deacon Issues Greatest Quote Ever
Imagine if your kids (yes we mean multiple kids) stole your car, loaded it up with friends, and then crashed the car into a house. You’d be totally pissed. You’re on the hook for the...
1,000hp Kenworth For Sale in Texas
We got tipped off to this wild beast of a 1979 Kenworth and our jaws hit the floor. We’ve heard of trucks sporting 500 and 600hp engines from Caterpillar and other heavy equipment makers, but a...
Mississippi Becomes the Thirty-Ninth State To Ban Nitrous In Street Cars
The Mississippi legislature recently passed the Trooper Steve Hood Act: The Nitrous Prohibition Act. The law is named after a state trooper who died in a high speed chase while in pursuit of a...
The Pinewood Derby is Serious Business
Since we were never in the Scouts, our knowledge of their traditional Pinewood Derby is limited. We know that the cars start out as wooden blocks and that each kid is supposed to fashion their own...
The Ultimate Stick Shift Training Vehicle, the Cummins Powered 2010 Ram 3500
The insane power levels that are available from diesel engines in trucks these days really make our mouths water. You can buy a pickup truck now that makes equivalent power to a medium-duty straight...
All the Force Girls Are on Fuel For the Winternationals
We’re normally pretty good with this type of information but we were pretty surprised to learn that all the Force girls—Ashley, Brittany, and Courtney (excluding John’s oldest...
Caption This Photo: A Bad Day At The Limo Driver’s Office
Imagine the noise that this thing made when it “ran aground.” We were forwarded this photo by our buddy Pete DeVita and it is simply too good not to share and get some great captions on....
C.A.R.B Advisory — Running Racing Fuel in Your Street Car is Illegal, Even If You Are Racing It
We were tipped off to an advisory bulletin released by the dreaded California Air Resource Board, the infamous C.A.R.B. This advisory, in typically convoluted government speak, seems to indicate that...
Finally, An Update in the Jeremy Mayfield Case
Finally! We’ve been waiting for months to hear some new stuff about the Jeremy Mayfield case against NASCAR. The actual trial is not set to begin until September, but the pre-trial wrangling is...
Ebay Find: The $200,000 1985 Camaro IROC
We didn’t screw up on the dollar amount in the title. This is a 1985 IROC Z28 sporting a TPI 305, an automatic transmission, 747 miles, and the signatures of nearly 100 actors, musicians, and...
Video Bonanza: Old Engines From the Gearhead Past
Engines are the life force of the gearhead world. We like to think about them in hot rods, trucks, and muscle cars, but there is a much broader scope that needs to be considered. Engines powered far...
Caption This Photo: The Vanishing Tractor
We were sent this photo by BangShift.com member Mike Casella and we immediately thought that we needed to put it forth to be captioned. Is it a photo chop? Is it a whimsical country art project? Is...
War on Racetracks: A Refresher Course on the Saga of Social Circle, Georgia’s Proposed Drag Strip
The Walton Tribune recently ran a piece that does a nice job summing up the current state of the debate going on in Social Circle, Georgia, with respect to a proposed drag strip for the community....
