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This Might Be The Most Expensive Bumper Tap In Automotive History

Ever bumper-tapped a car in a parking lot? I’ve done it once. I accidentally backed my Chevy Blazer into the nose of a Nissan Maxima in a gym parking lot. The second my truck stopped suddenly...

AFCO Racing Releases New Remote Reservoir Master Cylinders

In racing there are a million different concerns when outfitting your car for competition. AFCO Racing knows this and they have just released three new remote reservoir master cylinder part numbers...

This Look Back At A Road Test Of A 1993 Dodge Viper RT/10 Shows How Much Our Standards Have Changed In The Last Few Decades

When Dodge actually started selling Vipers in January, 1992, the world sat up and took notice. Dodge, who up to that point had been awash in K-cars and minivans, hadn’t been doing so well. The...

Goodguys Del Mar Photos: Muscle, Classics, And Traditional Hot Rods In So Cal

Oh yeah, we are still rolling through our expansive stack of photos from the 2015 Goodguys Del Mar show. This thing has been a staple of the So Cal hot rodding spring experience for 15 year now and...

Have You Ever Saw A Studebaker Powered Anything Bang Gears Like This?

Richard Poe owns a pretty cool Studebaker, but it’s not one you would instantly recognize. Starlights, Hawks, Champions, and Larks are the norm when it comes to Studebakers you see at most...

This European Pulling Tractor Rules But What The Heck Kind Of Engine Is Making The Power?

The tractor you are going to see in this video is named “Metal Boy” and it pretty much rules. The video contains a walk around and then it shows the tractor pulling the sled successfully...

1980s Hot Rod Time Machine: Cool Cars, Big Hair, And A Great Show In Oklahoma!

(Words and photos by Doug Gregory) –  Stillwater, if you didn’t know, is the home of the OSU Cowboys, Mercury Marine,  Tumbleweeds, and many other things both famous and infamous.  I have...

Chris Harris Goes Racing! Watch As He And Chris Ward Thrash A Rover SD1 Around A Diverse Field Of Touring Cars!

Goodwood’s 73rd Members Meeting had plenty of racing for all of the attendees, and while there were incidents (including the unfortunate one between the Lister-Jaguar and the Mercedes), there...

Goodguys Del Mar 2015: More Photo Coverage From The California Tradition

In the best way possible, all us car guys and girls have something wrong with us. We typically don’t like to lay on the couch, live on our electronic devices, and generally watch the world pass...

Fragola Performance Systems Releases More Part Numbers In Hose End Reducer Line

In their continuing effort to create every possible plumbing solution available, Fragola Performance Systems has expanded their already vast line of hose end reducers, adding straight and bent ends...

Scrapple, Your “meh”-worthy News: The Brabus Range Rover Pickup, Mercedes’ Stupidest Quote Yet, And More!

Another week down, another roll of antacids needed for this round of Scrapple. There’s plenty of reasons to drown all of this with some strong liquor in here, folks! 1. Mercedes will not build...

Watch An Angry Sprint Car Driver Walk Out Onto A Live Track And Throw A Torsion Arm At A Competitor – Have We Learned Nothing?!

We haven’t even gone a year from the sad story of Tony Stewart and Kevin Ward. Of course Ward was the driver who ventured out onto a live race track and was struck by a car that Stewart that...

EVO Magazine Got To Test A McLaren F1 And P1 Back-To-Back In Southern France

The McLaren P1 is a technological tour-de-force, proof that hybrid drivetrains can be used for power as well as for ecological reasons. The flame-throwing, properly unbalanced hypercar has turned...

This 1970 Mercury Colony Park Station Wagon Is A 429 Powered Survivor That Is Priced To Sell

In 1970, if you really wanted to impress the neighbors with your upwardly mobile lifestyle, you rolled into your local Mercury dealer and ordered up a family hauler like this. The Mercury Colony Park...