Survey Says Americans Crave Turbos
If a company that manufactures turbochargers administered a survey asking Americans about their view of turbochargers, what do you think the results would be? If you guessed overwhelmingly positive,...
New Car Sales Slump After Cash for Clunkers Ends
In news that took us totally by surprise, it seems that new car sales are slumping hard now that the government’s Cash for Clunkers program has ended. It’s not like a bunch of demand was...
Larry Larson Runs Hot Rod Drag Week’s Fastest Pass Ever! 7.25 at 199 MPH
BangShift Chad is on site at Summit Motorsports Park in Norwalk, Ohio for Day 3 of racing at Hot Rod Drag Week 2009. He just called in to report that Larry Larson’s 1966 Chevy II just ran the...
The King & Marshall AA/FD Comes Home to Rhode Island
With the explosion in popularity of nostalgia drag racing and historic drag racing machinery in recent years, it is no surprise that some of the greatest cars from the past have been brought back to...
Tuesday at Drag Week 2009 by Jay Brown at FordFE.com
We’ve been following Drag Week with the diary of racer Jay Brown in his SOHC-motored 1964 Galaxie. We think he’s the only person to have raced at every single Drag Week since the start...
More Affordable Belt Drives from Jesel
Wayne Jesel is one of the coolest guys we see at Bonneville, and this year he got his brother Dan into the 200 MPH Club. Dan runs Jesel Valvetrain Innovations. He must be cool, too, because the...
Australian Guy Drives For 50 Years Without a License, Then Gets Busted
Life is a funny thing. We have friends who had their licenses taken due to um, agressive driving and got caught about thirty seconds after they decided to slip behind the wheel before getting it...
Site of the Week: Yenko.net
During the horsepower war of the 1960s in Detroit, Ford, GM and Chrysler were cranking out high performance cars that ran harder and faster than anything previously built. That was good enough for...
Video: Green Hornet Movie Car Crash On Set
We would have never caught this one if it were not for the guys at CarDomain. It seems they surf TMZ.com more than we do, which is never. That celebrity-stalking site posted this way back on...
Event Coverage: Hot Rod Drag Week 2009, Day 2, Martin, Michigan
Day 2 of Hot Rod Magazine’s Drag Week, sponsored by Gear Vendors, is done. There are three days of racing left for the competitors in this wild event that has cars racing at five drag strips in...
Video: 7-Second Pro Street Firebird at Drag Week 2009
Here’s a video of Eric Yost in his Pro Street Power Adder third gen Pontiac Firebird at Martin, Michigan, on the second day of Drag Week 2009. This pass shows an 8.29, but this car ran 8.11 on...
Hot Rod Drag Week 2009 Day 2 Results are In
Right now it’s the end of Day 2 at Hot Rod Drag Week, sponsored by Gear Vendors. This is the week-long event with drag racing every day, and the cars have to drive on the street from track to...
Michigan Track Sets Crappy Record
Berlin Raceway in Marne, Michigan, has set a new track record. For rainouts. The track is suffering its worst year (in terms of weather) in its nearly six-decade existence. Adding pressure is the...
Video: ZZ572 Powered Jeep CJ
This Jeep is in Denmark…we think. Where ever it is, we want it. V8 powered CJ Jeeps have a certain air of coolness about them, but one packing a GM Performance Parts ZZ572 crate motor with...
