Beyond Block: DC Shoes Presents Robbie Maddison’s “Pipe Dream” – Who Thinks Up Surfing With A Dirt Bike?
“Necessity is the mother of invention.” Snow begat skis. The internal combustion engine begat more efficient ways of handling tasks than by hitching up Mr. Ed, who may or may not be...
This Hayabusa-swapped Peugeot 106 Is A Little Go-Kart With An Attitude!
By and large, tiny little city cars tend to be depressing. They are useful, yes. And they can be necessary. But that doesn’t mean that they are loved. They are appliances first…they fit...
Classic YouTube: The 2015 Touring Car Masters Race At Winton – Trans-Am Meets Aussie V8 Supercar!
The first thing we thought of when we saw the footage of the Touring Car Masters race at Winton Motor Raceway in Australia is, “This is the kind of racing we’d watch on...
Watch This Guy Crash His Honda S2000 At A Weird Autocross And Then Get Really, Really Mad About It In The Car
The Honda S2000 is a mean little car. In stock form they have small naturally aspirated engines that are capable of making incredible power for their size at motorcycle levels of RPM. We’re not...
Watch a Swedish Drag Racer Stand a Monza Nearly Up on End During a Drag Pass
Drag racers in Europe are hard core because they have to be. As we understand the scene, there aren’t a lot (or any) tracks that run weekly test-n-tune sessions, grudge nights, or most of the...
Watch This Diesel Drag Truck Make A Hellacious Top End Charge And Catch His Opponent
As impressive as the massive power gains made by diesel truck enthusiasts have been, the era of the straight up dyno queen performance seems to be coming more and more of a close. The power is being...
BangShift Tune-Up: “The Zephyr Song” by Red Hot Chili Peppers (2002)
In a change versus the majority of the last ten years for me, I’ve spent the last couple months waking up just before the sun driving just as the first few beams of light go bright. When the...
Gear Mamma-Jamma: Ride In A 347 Stroker Mustang As The Driver Tears Gears Down The Strip
No, it is not Friday so this is not the traditional Parting Shift blog item that you all know and love. Instead this is a fantastic video featuring a Fox-body car with a 347 stroker getting the gears...
Rough Start: This 1978 Mercury Zephyr Is The Crate The Capri Came In
Say what you will about the positives or negatives regarding the Ford Fairmont and it’s Mercury Zephyr twin. They were a great downsizing step for Ford. They ushered in a chassis that has...
Great Video: Watch A Monstrous 400ft Tall Crane Replace The Coke Drums At An Oil Refinery
Sometimes it is very difficult to put things into a size perspective. We can tell you that a crane is 400 feet tall or that it is capable of lifting a couple million pounds but the reality is...
This Half Car Drag Boat Tow Rig Is The Best Thing You’ll See Today – Genius!
The guys at Urban Hillbilly Action videos have shown us all kinds of wild action over the years but this is a new one on us in the form of a half car drag boat tow rig. This unit is designed to bring...
The “WTF?!” Files: The Story Of The Algar Ferrari Heist…A Con Man, G-Men, And A Totalled Ferrari
Ferrari F50, #29/349, has to be the one Prancing Horse with the best story out of all of them. It doesn’t have racing glory. It doesn’t have ownership prestige. It wasn’t crashed by...
Beyond Opulent: The 1934 Deusenberg Walker Coupe, As Shown By Jay Leno
If you think back to cars of the 1930s, one shape stands out above the others: the Deusenberg. Is it more recognizable than, say, the 1933 Ford? The Ford was certainly more popular. The 1934...
The Craziest Car Commercial Of The 1980s Involved Launching A Car Off An Aircraft Carrier And Strapping It To A Submarine
Pretty much everyone (including us) has been blown away by the last couple of Ken Block Gymkhana videos that featured him doing crazy stunt driving stuff in urban areas that were obviously closed off...
