BangShifty Video: This Homebuilt Steam Powered Rail Speeder Is Incredible
(By Greg Rourke) – We’ve featured rail speeders in the past. They were built as inspection vehicles, and to get crews to places not accessible by road. They have been largely replaced by...
This 1970 Drag Racing Documentary Film Is Awesome And We’ve Never Seen It Before – Total Coolness From A Long Dead Track!
We revel in finding old drag racing footage on the internet that we don’t think you’ve seen before. This video is a prime example of that because we’re going to go ahead and...
Snake Venom: How To Get The Most Out Of A 4-Valve 4.6 Mod Motor
You could spot one a mile away compared to a standard Mustang. Those two large, tunneled fog lights announced the presence of the Cobra, the Mustang that was doing it’s best to be the top of...
Ugly And Unstoppable: This Blazer Is A Study In Gearing, Good Driving, And Zero Effs Given To Looks
We’re partial to full size rigs around here. We’re obviously a bunch of simpletons and big stuff just has that kind of impressive presence to it that appeals to our knuckle dragging...
Unknown Parts Counter Guy: Hold On, Sir, I Have The Engineering Blueprints In The Back
When the Internet really started taking off in the late 1990s, it’s promise was amazing: reach out to people with information the world over. Make connections, learn new things, become...
Ripsaw: This Little 358ci Ford Small Block Has Yates D3 Heads And Makes 730hp NA On The Dyno – Watch!
By the time the early 2000s rolled around, Ford had a horsepower problem in NASCAR the C3 head that they were using was OK but it was definitely not up to the job of hanging with the other...
The Hyundai RM20e Is The Ultra-High Performance Electric Hatchback Of Your Dreams (Or Nightmares)
(By Tom Lohnes) – Ever since the GM EV1 in the 90’s electric cars have been getting more and more advanced with every new model and generation. This year, we get another advancement, with...
Best Worst Ship Ever: The Insane, Incredible, Insolvent, and Entirely Unbelievable Story Of The SS Great Eastern
This is the story of one of the greatest engineering achievements of the Victorian Age. It is also the story of a ship so far ahead of its time it was one of the greatest financial failures ever...
Drag Racing Action Photos: PDRA Drag Wars Presented by Modern Racing at GALOT Motorsports Park
(Photos by David Whealon) – The 2020 PDRA Drag Wars presented by Modern Racing at GALOT Motorsports Park represented the second to last event of the season for the organization and it drew a...
NHRA Insider Podcast: Talking Camping World, Tommy Johnson Jr, Cameron Ferre, and More!
Tommy Johnson Jr and Cameron Ferre join Brian Lohnes on the NHRA Insider podcast this week. Lohnes talks Camping World, craziness at St Louis, and then has two great conversations with a veteran...
Take A Ride Down The Strip With One Of The Most Unloved Fords Ever: An 11-Second 1982 Thunderbird!
Quick, picture a 1982 Ford Thunderbird. Did you have to Google it? Sorry about that…unlike the 1983-88 “Aero Bird” that looked pretty good and earned a legend in the NASCAR circles,...
Unhinged: I Want To Modify This Super-Original 1971 Ford Pinto Badly!
It’s low-mile for it’s age, it’s paint looks day one fresh, the interior is in amazing condition. It still looks purposeful, sitting on those teeny-tiny slot mag style wheels,...
Missing The Point Has Never Been More Awesome: A Nitrous-Snorting Cobra Runs The Strip!
Carroll Shelby made a name for himself as a race car driver, but by 1959 he had been forced to retire from wheelman duties due to his heart health. Normally, he had nitroglycerin pills to take care...
Junga Bunga Cash Days: No-Prep Throwdown At Warwick Dragway
While I was standing in a lift in Michigan covering the Mid-West Drag Racing Series back in September, I happened to take a quick glance at the chat. Normally, the only time the livestream chat gets...
