Welcome Back To The Brutality: Rally Racing Crashes From The Year That Cared Not
Sep 27, 2020Bryan McTaggartComments Off on Welcome Back To The Brutality: Rally Racing Crashes From The Year That Cared Not
You can determine just how well this year is treating you, mainly because at this point any concept of a blanket statement is worthless. 2020 is one for the books…right up there with the Black...
The Fall Fling At Galot LIVE Continues Sunday For $125,000!
Sep 26, 2020Chad ReynoldsComments Off on The Fall Fling At Galot LIVE Continues Sunday For $125,000!
The Fling events, whether the Spring Fling, Spring Fling Million, Fall Flings, etc, are some of the finest run bracket races in the world. They have arguably changed the landscape of bracket racing...
Rainmakers: New Orleans Offers A Wet And Wild Street Car Experience For Optima Search For The Ultimate Street Car Racers
Sep 26, 2020Chad ReynoldsComments Off on Rainmakers: New Orleans Offers A Wet And Wild Street Car Experience For Optima Search For The Ultimate Street Car Racers
(Words by Jim McIllvaine, Photos by Kaleb Kelly) By the time the world’s best street cars rolled into NOLA Motorsports Park in New Orleans, five events were in the books for OPTIMA’s...
What Do You Take To Pick Up A Small Block Swapped Mini Truck? DUH! A Blown Ramp Truck!
Sep 25, 2020Chad Reynolds2
Mike Finnegan never bores, with all the trucks he’s swapped and traded and bought and sold in recent years, but right now he’s on a whole new level of the car and truck shuffle and has...
American PowerTrain Starting Shift: Working A Detroit Diesel Up Through The Gears And Back Down Again On A Grade
Sep 25, 2020Brian Lohnes2
For this week we’re throwing down two stroke style for our American Powertrain Starting Shift. We get to sit (literally) in the driver’s seat of a 1980 GMC Brigadier dump truck as it...
Wild Video: Watch These British Navy Guys Cheerfully Disarm A Mine In 1940
Sep 25, 2020Brian Lohnes1
WWII in England had to have been a time of indescribable feelings. There was the patriotism involved in defending their country, the terror of knowing that missiles could rain down at any moment, the...
Watch Smokey Yunick Make A Side Splitting Speech From His Induction Into the Daytona Stock Car Racing Hall of Fame
Sep 25, 2020Brian Lohnes3
While Smokey Yunick died about 16 years ago now, his legend continues on and will for generations. We got tipped off to this truly awesome video by a guy who said that it was must watch stuff. He was...
This 1940 Ford Truck Promotional Film Features About Every Cool Model The Company Made At The Time
Sep 25, 2020Brian LohnesComments Off on This 1940 Ford Truck Promotional Film Features About Every Cool Model The Company Made At The Time
The world has moved on the backs of trucks for many decades now but it was a different story in 1940. It is not as if there were still lots of horse drawn carts moving stuff from place to place but...
Unhinged: Going Nighty-Night On Purpose For G-LOC Training
Sep 25, 2020Bryan McTaggartComments Off on Unhinged: Going Nighty-Night On Purpose For G-LOC Training
G-force induced loss of consciousness (abbreviated as G-LOC) is what can happen when gravitational forces effectively drain blood away from the brain. While the condition is best known as a serious...
Watch The Wild Ride Of Raymond Beadle From The 1982 NHRA Gatornationals – Crowd Goes NUTS!
Sep 25, 2020Brian LohnesComments Off on Watch The Wild Ride Of Raymond Beadle From The 1982 NHRA Gatornationals – Crowd Goes NUTS!
The late Raymond Beadle was one of the greatest “funny car guys” of all time. A risk taker, a hustler, one hell of a driver, and a guy who was one of the true rock stars in the world of...
Copart Cadaver: This 1971 Plymouth GTX Got The Wrong End Of Somebody’s Bad Day
Sep 25, 2020Bryan McTaggart6
For the most part, roaming through Copart for classics leaves little to the imagination on what might have happened that brought the car to the place where dead vehicles dwell. A 1970 Pontiac GTO...
That’s The Spirit: 1979 American Motors Spirit GT That’s Ready To Rip
Sep 25, 2020Bryan McTaggart1
So what that it’s a gussied up AMC Gremlin with a tail that’s a bit more palatable than the original. V8, four-speed, and it sounds like it wants to fight. So it came from the wrong end...
Watch This Car With Four Wheel Steering Strut Its Stuff On A Michigan Bridge In 1931 – Freak!
Sep 25, 2020Brian LohnesComments Off on Watch This Car With Four Wheel Steering Strut Its Stuff On A Michigan Bridge In 1931 – Freak!
Yes, that old car is driving completely sideways. This film taken in 1931 shows a guy in Pontiac, Michigan driving a car that he specially modified to have four wheel steering. Think monster truck...
Ride In A Screaming 289 Powered GT40 As It Tears Around Spa And Makes An Insanely Tight Pass
Sep 25, 2020Brian Lohnes1
Everyone has their short list of cars that they’d do something horrible to have a shot at driving and we’re thinking that the Ford GT40 shows up on most people’s. Ultimately it was...












