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Rev up your engines and polish that chrome, because the Union County Drag Shootout is where speed meets bling! With prize money up for grabs, this adrenaline-fueled event is more than just a race—it’s a wallet-boosting opportunity for speed demons and gearheads alike. Whether you’re a seasoned racer or just here for the tire smoke and high-octane laughs, the Union County Dragway promises a tire-squealing good time. So, buckle up, and may the fastest car win… and maybe buy dinner!
John DeLorean and a group of rebellious young Pontiac engineers ignored corporate rules about building fast cars and quietly created the GTO, testing their ideas against street kids at night. With Pontiac’s sales sagging and GM threatening to drop the division, the GTO became a make-or-break gamble built on one ruthless insight about young buyers. This Great Cars documentary tells how it happened. Discover the defiance behind an icon.
AV Boys’ built Mustang lined up against a VRT-tuned 2012 Porsche 911 from Izzy Performance for a five-thousand-dollar street race, with the Porsche given a full car length head start as a nod to its own serious pedigree. Only one car crossed the line first, and the margin says a lot about which build actually delivered under pressure. Watch the full run to see whether that head start was anywhere near enough.
From the mid-50s to the 70s, American street racers were the kings of cool, cruising boulevards and racing deserted runways. Muscle cars with sleek lines, custom paint jobs, and engines that left police cruisers in the dust were the emperors of the road—and their drivers raced for glory and the fastest girls. But crashes, the law, or love eventually sidelined most racers. Still, some of these legends have been passed down, with grandchildren now revving those engines at local dragstrips.
A lime-green Cougar so radically reworked that showgoers assumed it was a new model altogether — that was Mercury’s 1970 El Gato concept, unveiled at back-to-back auto shows before vanishing for good. It borrowed its fastback roofline from a Mustang, swapped its back seat for a European-style cargo shelf, and tested run-flat tire technology that failed spectacularly. Ford’s standard practice of destroying show cars means no one has documented seeing it since 1970. Here’s the story behind Mercury’s strangest concept car.
1320video catches a twin-turbo Chrysler 300C sleeper doing exactly what sleepers do best, humbling far flashier cars on the Texas streets. Hiding under that unassuming four-door body is a 404-cubic-inch Hemi stroker fed by twin 67mm turbochargers, good for genuinely frightening power. No wing, no wrap, just a big sedan that launches hard and upsets the fast crowd. Watch to see the moment those turbos spool and everyone realizes what they are up against.
The Lockheed U-2 is so difficult to fly that it needs a high-speed chase car, sometimes even a Tesla, sprinting down the runway beside it on every takeoff and landing. Filmed at RAF Fairford, this footage shows two of these Cold War spy planes rocketing skyward while their outrigger wheels drop away. The pilot, sealed in a pressure suit, can barely see out. Find out why this 1950s legend still needs a car to get airborne.