Until Old Age Takes Them Back To The Weeds: Digging Through An Abandoned Junkyard In England
This video takes me back to my childhood…namely, the days where I’d prowl around in the woods between Olalla and Bremerton, Washington hunting the wrecks and abandoned cars left in the...
Should’ve Stuck Around: 1968 Chevrolet Corvair Monza Convertible – Making Economy Look Good
Could GM have kept the Chevrolet Corvair around successfully past 1969 if they tried? It’s an easy punchline when discussing anything involving the General: they make a new model, beta-test it...
Light Means Might: A Renault R4 F6 Sinpar Trudging Off Of The Path
I get a kick out of off-road types. Not real off-roaders. The ones who want you to think that their weekends are all mud and rock crawling, dune-bashing good times. The ones who drive Angry Jeeps and...
Old Yeller: The Junkyard Build That Inspired Carroll Shelby
(Words: Jon Bunger) Before sweeping LeMans with the GT40 or building the first Cobra, Carrol Shelby drove this car. You won’t find it in any museum, because it’s still being raced today. More...
Classic YouTube: The 1983 MG Maestro Challenge, Where 110 Horsepower Was Plenty
The IROC series was a neat way to pair off drivers from different automotive disciplines together onto a single combative race, wasn’t it? Well….no, not really. It was a short-run NASCAR...
The Lincoln Continental, America’s Favorite Luxury Sedan, Reaches The End of The Line (Again)
(By Tom Lohnes) – The Lincoln Continental, America’s favorite Luxury sedan, is once again dead. After a drastic 54 percent sales decrease in Q4 of 2019 and Ford’s decision to ditch sedans...
Dyno Video: Watch This 383ci BluePrint Engine Go Through Its Dyno Paces!
We have long talked about the guys and girls at BluePrint Engines and the quality of their product line. One of the amazing things is the fact that the company dyno tests every single engine that...
Ride Along With Jay Meagher As He Makes The Best Save Of This Or Any Other Hot Rod Drag Week
Perhaps the most defining attribute to Hot Rod Magazine Drag Week 2016 was its diversity. We saw more interesting stuff packed into the near 400 entries that the event brought than we ever have....
Watch The 7,700hp American Ethanol Catamaran Run 217mph At The Lake Of The Ozarks Shootout
The Lake of the Ozarks Shootout is one of the most intense, crazy, and flat out thrilling waterborne motorsports events in the USA. The risks and the speeds are huge and this year the biggest number...
Money No Object: A Delicious Pro Street 1986 Pontiac Grand Am
The Pro Street fad that ran through the 1980s and deep into the 1990s did have one very neat unintended consequence: a lot of the boring, hopeless front-wheel-drive machines that were being cranked...
Ibuprofen Won’t Help: Barbie Jeep Racing From The 2020 Rednecks With Paychecks Event In Texas
We all have our guilty pleasures…a song you wouldn’t admit to liking that you jam out to every time it comes in when you’re alone in the car, a food that you shouldn’t eat for...
2020 ECTA Firecracker Mile Gallery: The Opening Roar At Arkansas
As I made the left turn off of Arkansas 181 and onto Memorial Drive, I immediately had a strange sense of familiarity that took me a minute to figure out. The building designs were very familiar. The...
Chase ’em Down! Watch This Mustang Run Down A 7.70 Door Slammer Like It Is Tied To A Tree!
Bracket racing is not for everyone; unless you know exactly how it works, or are specifically cheering on someone, and I can understand the argument, but when a Pro Mod enters into the fast bracket...
Using The Wrong Lube Hurts! Here Is The Straight Truth On What To Use To Properly Torque Your Fasteners
Everyone thinks about the expensive parts of their engines that are sexy, like pistons, rods, crankshafts, cylinder heads, intakes, etc. But what holds all that stuff where it is supposed to be?...
