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BangShift Burnout Battle – International Edition: A Delta 88 in England Takes on a Bitchin’ 1964 Skylark in the USA – FINAL DAY TO VOTE!
BangShift Burnout Battle fever has crossed over the ocean and landed in jolly ol’ England! This week we have for your viewing and voting pleasure a beautiful 1964 Buick Skylark ripping tires in...
Carnage Photo: What Happens When a Piston Breaks and Lots of Boost Runs Free
The crazed power that turbo engines make these days does come with a price. That price is the potential for big carnage. Take this photo for example. Our pal Jon Sandahl shot it at a recent drag...
Canadian Government Moves to Seize Two Million Dollar Fleet of Sports Cars Busted Street Racing
The original story read like the plot line from a 1980s movie. A horde of rich kids from an exclusive private high school were caught street racing in a group of the world’s most expensive high...
Car Show Gallery: The 2011 B.I.G Love Car and Truck Show – La Porte, Texas
Photo contributor Charles Wickam’s big Texas car show adventure continues with another gallery from last weekend’s touring. This one is from the B.I.G Love Car and Truck Show, a charity...
Found: 1977 Ford Denimachine Van For Sale in Canada
In the late 1970s Coca-Cola wanted to cash in on one of the biggest crazes in the country at the time, vanning. Long scorned by hot rodders who saw vans creep into the pages of their favorite high...
WTF Video: A Squashed Russian SUV Rolling Down the Highway
We’ve all seen a smacked up car rolling down the road and wondered what the hell happened. Maybe the doors are all smashed in or there’s a headlight missing but overall the car is still...
Car Show Gallery: The Pearland, Texas Cruise – September 2011
Continuing on with Charles Wickam’s extreme weekend of car show photography, he sent us this dispatch from the Pearland, Texas cruise. The evening event is an informal affair, held at a Lowes...
Car Show Gallery: The DeSantis Chevrolet Car Show – Brockton, MA
Last weekend, we took in the 18th annual car show held at DeSantis Chevrolet in Brockton, Massachusetts. This was an all makes show that had a zillion and a half classes and trophies to boot. We were...
Racing Junk Find: A Super Clean, Turbocharged 1970 Duster
When we first saw this car on RacingJunk we thought it was a clean Duster. Once we learned it had a 440 in it with a single 88mm turbo, we dove straight into the photo gallery. The car would be a...
Show Gallery: The 28th Annual Long Horn Rod Run
The weather in Texas has cooled to sub-nuclear levels so Charles Wickam is back on the scene. Last weekend the lunatic shot four different events, this one, the 28th annual Long Horn Rod run was one...
Powerful Video: The 9-11 Boatlift – How Men of Action Evacuated Manhattan That Day
Forgive us if you have already seen this video. It is making tracks across the web in record time and for good reason. This is the story, as narrated by Tom Hanks, of the men who sprang to action on...
eBay Find: The Pro Street Nova of NHRA Pro Stock Team Owner Ken Black
It is always cool to get a glimpse the personal lives of drag racing’s elite and NHRA Pro Stock team owner Ken Black is certainly in that club. He owns the team of four time Pro Stock champion...
Name This Mystery Forlorn Monster Truck!
Old monster trucks seem to generally lead sad lives. They get parked outside at truck stops or used as yard art a car museums, or in the case of this tank tracked monster truck, left for dead at a...
Nasty Wreck Video: Armco Guardrails Amplify Another Bad Wreck Into Pure Catastrophe
There are dozens of videos on the internet showing crashes at drag strips with armco-style guardrails. Sometimes the guardrails keep the cars contained to the strip, but most times, like in this...