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2015 Buffalo Motorama – More Photos From Inside New York’s Gnarliest Hot Rod Show

(Photos by Mike Brooks) – Remember that day early in the winter of 2015 when Buffalo, New York got like elevendy hundred feet of snow? I remember it because people I know on the west coast,...

This BMW M1 GT2 Race Car Has A Soundtrack From The Heavens

The BMW M1 is what happened when BMW got mad at the winning ways of Porsche, went partying with the Italians, then woke up with one hell of a hangover and a half-assed idea that they decided to...

Test Your Gearhead Knowledge: Can You Name This Thing That We Found At Then And Now Auto?

A short while ago, we showed up at Then and Now Automotive in Weymouth, Massachusetts and demanded entrance to their fortress of a building which holds untold riches of killer ancient car parts. It...

Rough Start: This 1997 Camaro Z28 Is Clean And Taken Care Of, And It’s A Manual!

Sorting through the tons and tons of used car deals out there is a crapshoot. Do you go for original and pay later to modify the car or do you roll the dice on a previous project? If you have any...

Sweet Cars From The 15th Annual Goodguys Del Mar Show – From Weird To Wild They Are In Here

How about this BangShifty pair above and below to get us rolling on our car coverage from the 15th Goodguys Del Mar show, eh? We have the blown flathead with the swapped ports above and the totally...

Question Of The Day: How Many Versions Of The Dodge Challenger Are There?

The name of a car can make or break it, and Dodge struck gold when they thought up “Challenger”. The name is tough…you picture the up-and-coming, ready to knock the current champion...

Watch This Ratty Looking Ford Truck Scream, Slide, And Wail Around An Autocross At Lime Rock

So my motivation with this post is two-fold. Firstly I want to show off this awesome old Ford truck and its screaming 358ci Windsor style small block, ratty good looks, killer stance, and handling...

How Good Is The QuickTrick Portable Alignment System? Everyone From Pro Racers To Fleet Owners Are Using It – Here’s Why

Our longtime pals that make the QuickTrick Portable Alignment System were recently involved with the build of the RideTech 48 Hour Corvette and there’s a simple reason why. Their stuff WORKS...

The Rigs Of Del Mar – More Shined Up, Muscled Up, Or Ratted Up Trucks From Goodguys Del Mar

I was recently sampling some beers with a fellow gearhead and he proclaimed that “trucks are boring”. I restrained myself from hitting him over the head with a bottle, dragging him into...

This e85-Converted Hellcat Laid Down 753 HP and 670 Ft/Lbs of Torque At The Wheels!

You’d think 700-plus horsepower would be more than enough for most people. You’d think so, but if that number is stock, it’s safe to assume that someone, somewhere will try to eek...

NASCAR Racers Are Now Getting Digital Dashboards In The Cars

(Photos: twitter.com/@jamiemcmurray) It’s true, NASCAR is making a slow adaptation to a digital dash setup for the race cars. Driver Jaime McMurray tweeted out a couple of pictures of the...

Kyana Spring Swap Meet: Cool Toys, Cool Trucks, Race Cars, Parts, And More – Hide Your Wallet!

(Words and photos by Doug Gregory) – One more loaded swap meet with lots of goodies.  The Delco battery cooler wasn’t for sale, but I had to have a picture.  We happened upon what seemed...

Prolong Launches New Website, Cool New Content, Better Online Store – Free Shipping On All Products In USA, Even Drums!

If there are any people that understand what it is like to redesign and reconfigure a website it is us so when the guys from Prolong told us that their redesign and upgrade was finished we jumped...

This 1949 Studebaker 2R10 Truck Is Pure Original Stude From Front To Back – A Cool Workhorse Rarity!

If you like things that are good, you’ll really love this 1949 Studebaker 2R10 truck because it is a rare old Studebaker truck and secondly because it has not been corrupted, molested, or...