Under Pressure: The Story of Bill Lear’s Steam Powered Race Car That (Never) Ran The Indy 500
Bill Lear will go down as one of the most incredible inventors of the 20th century. The man who created the car radio, miniature tuning coils for radios, who invented auto-pilot, radio guidance for...
Watch The Brazilian Opala Metal Run 5.33 In The Eighth And The End Up Stopping On A Jungle Path!
The Opala was one of GM Brazil’s most popular models having been produced from 1969 through 1992. Over the years it evolved and changed but through it all, people loved the cars. As has...
Watch This Crazed Off-Road Nova Scream Up A Hill Climb While Catching Air – Who Is This Masked Man?!
We need your help! Thanks for a tip from BangShifter Christon Gerber we have video of a guy named Doug Smith hammering up a (dirt) hill climb that was held in Lisbon, Ohio. This is not the bendy,...
Teutonic Tank: The New Mercedes S-Class Is Horsepower, Luxury, and Technology On Full Display
(By Tom Lohnes) – For decades now the Mercedes S-class and all of its variants have been the pinnacle of build quality, luxury, and all-around German engineering. This new generation of...
That’s Novel: This 11-Second Jeep Wrangler TJ Looks Pretty Much Stock…Minus The Turbocharged Barra Six!
It’s not that we haven’t seen fast Jeeps before…LSX Willys immediately springs to mind, as does the “Holy Toledo” Jeep funny car from back in the day. And that’s...
Cool Vans, Weird Tagline: This 1979 Dodge Van Commercial Gives The Model Line Up And A Weird Pitch
While the world wrestles with the COVID-19 pandemic, we look back to another scourge that came over the landscape, this one little more than 40 years ago and it was known as vanning. All of a sudden...
Plug In Or Get Paid Out: Cadillac Is Putting A Half-Mil On The Table For Dealerships Who Don’t Want To Go All-In On EVs
If GM is going to have their way, Cadillac’s will be quieter than they ever have been by 2030, with the top-tier GM badge ditching the German target they’ve had since the late 1990s and...
Draggin’ Ass: The 1991 Isuzu Rodeo Was As Slow As You Remember It – Talk About A Barge!
Tall tires, tall gears, and a 3.1L throttle body injected V6 from GM all added up to one of the slowest vehicles I remember riding in as a high school kid. In fact, it was so slow in my mind that I...
Faster Yet: Stevie Fast Jackson Talks About Being A Back To Back NHRA Pro Mod Champ – Loses 11lbs In The Process!
We live in an interesting time of racing history. There are lots of guys who have been groomed, trained, and educated as racing drivers, no matter the sport but they might not actually be...
Nitro Time Machine: Watch Jim White Bust The 290mph Barrier In Funny Car and Chat Up Steve Evans Behind The Scenes!
This right here is some prime-cut goodness for those hardcore NHRA fans of “back in the day”. One of the neatest parts of my job with NHRA is the fact that I have the keys to the massive...
The 2021 Honda Civic Is Coming: Our Little Boy Is All Growed Up!
(By Tom Lohnes) – The new Honda Civic is here, and it’s much more Mazda3 than Toyota Corolla. The Mazda3 just recently entered its third generation and went a lot upmarket, forming a bridge...
Power Move: Cruz Pedregon Hires Entire Crew Of MD Anderson Funny Car For 2021 – Crew Chief On Down!
The silly season has taken little time to get kicked off in the world of NHRA Camping World Drag Racing. Cruz Pedregon announced late last week that he had hired the entire crew of the second place...
Morning Symphony: De-Tuning A 1.5JZ Toyota Soarer To Over 900 Horsepower
Toyota Supras became legendary for their ability to put out obscene amounts of power from six cylinders. Say “2JZ” to anyone under the age of 40 and they know…this is the proper...
Listen Up: The Story Of The 1927 Dole Air Race Is One of The Most Tragic And Insane Missives In American Aviation History!
The 1927 Dole Air Race stands as one of the most bizarre and tragic events in the history of flight. Paid for by James Dole, the pineapple magnate, the race was designed to capitalize on the fame...
