What Does A Chrysler 360 Need In Order To Rock? Check Out This Bit Of Dyno Work!
Jul 12, 2020Bryan McTaggart1
The Chrysler 360, the unsung small-block of Ma Mopar’s list. It’s not the screamer 340 that powered Dusters, Demons and the like, and it’s not the anvil 318 that came in just about...
Daddy Long-Legs: The History Of The CH-54 Tarhe Heavy Lift Helicopter
Jul 12, 2020Bryan McTaggart2
Those with an ear for helicopter engines can pick out certain noises. The wop-wop-wop of a Bell UH-1 Iroquois, for example, or the flat roar of an AH-64 Apache. One of the more distinctive noises...
2020 Southeastern Chevy/GMC Truck Nationals: Square Bodies In The Sunshine
Jul 12, 2020Bryan McTaggartComments Off on 2020 Southeastern Chevy/GMC Truck Nationals: Square Bodies In The Sunshine
If there is one vehicle that I believe Brian, Chad and I all agree on 100%, it would be a GM truck. We might not agree on year, engine, setup, model or purpose, but we all can agree that we can find...
FREE LIVE STREAMING Drag Racing: The Xtreme Texas Nationals Featuring The Mid-West Drag Racing Series
Jul 11, 2020Bryan McTaggart1
Saturday: Racing scheduled for 6 P.M. Central! No, your eyes didn’t deceive you, the name is accurate: the Summit Racing Equipment Mid-West Drag Racing Series, the former Mid-West Pro Mod...
Historical Video: Tazio Nuvolari’s Bombshell Win At The 1935 German Grand Prix
Jul 11, 2020Bryan McTaggart1
Taizo Nuvolari is one of those drivers whose name has become legendary in certain circles. Ferdinand Porsche considered the best racing driver, period and Enzo Ferrari championed him as the inventor...
Caption This: Risk Assessment? Never Heard Of Him.
Jul 11, 2020Bryan McTaggart10
DD Form 2977, “Deliberate Risk Assessment Worksheet”. What is it? In Army lingo, it’s a form that is used to identify, analyze and mitigate risks for everything from something as...
Seasoning The Floor Pan: Preparing The Interior Of The Independence Chevelle
Jul 11, 2020Bryan McTaggart2
No, it hasn’t just fallen apart and no, he hasn’t stopped working on it. Vice Grip Garage’s 1970 Malibu known as Independence is still coming together from it’s haggard,...
Random Car Review: 1978 Chevrolet Malibu Classic “Black Sterling” Concept
Jul 11, 2020Bryan McTaggart4
Towards the end of the 1970s, GM saw the writing on the wall: cars had finally reached peak mass and needed to be shrunken if the company was going to have any hope in Hell of making profits in the...
Vintage Drag Video: Early 1970s Funny Car Action From Illinois’ Motion Raceway
Jul 10, 2020Brian Lohnes3
There’s nothing quite like vintage drag strip videos from the 1970s featuring some of the neatest funny cars of the era. This particular video was shot in 8mm format at Motion Raceway in...
The American Powertrain Parting Shift: Watch This Four Speed, Straight Axle Fairlane Get Power Shifted At Eagle Field
Jul 10, 2020Brian Lohnes10
Here’s a combo we can love. Take a classic muscle car, slap a straight axle under it, built a healthy motor and back it with a four speed and then go run it at the strip. The math there is...
Historical Footage: Playing Catch and Release With Curtiss F9C Sparrowhawks Aboard USS Akron
Jul 10, 2020Bryan McTaggart1
Nowadays, we can only imagine what it must have been like to see a gigantic airship like USS Akron or Graf Zepplin flying around in the skies. To put it to scale, the Akron was over three times as...
Video – Hot Rodded Oliver Inline Six Tractor Engine Make 405hp And 560+ lb/ft On The Dyno Naturally Aspirated!
Jul 10, 2020Brian Lohnes2
When one thinks of an antique tractor pulling engine thoughts normally wander to updraft carbs and old oil and grease seeping around ancient bolt heads. If that’s what you actually think that...
Buick V6 Build: The L67 Gets Introduced To It’s New Home!
Jul 10, 2020Bryan McTaggartComments Off on Buick V6 Build: The L67 Gets Introduced To It’s New Home!
Scotty’s L67 Buick V6 build is probably my favorite project going this year that doesn’t involve me sweating my fat ass off in the Kentucky heat and humidity. I enjoy the 3.8L...
SUV Of Doom: Watch This Denali Spin Both Rollers On An AWD Dyno To The Tune Of 775HP To The Tires!
Jul 10, 2020Brian Lohnes1
We’ve said it a lot over the years and the fact is nothing is cooler in our book than big and fast. Big is good, fast is good, but big and fast together? That’s as nice as beer and...












