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Watch Australian Legend John Bower Rip Through a Field of Vintage Muscle Cars

While he’s not a household name outside of Australia, John Bowe is one of the country’s living legends. Bowe won 15 V8 Supercar races, mostly in the 1990s, but his illustrious racing career also...

Never Understood The Draw Of The Cloverleaf Cars? Check Out This Alfa Romeo Montreal!

Alfas have flaws, they feel human, as if they have a soul and a temper. Each one is like the tortured hero of a Russian novel, a car of extraordinary depths, a car you can never truly fathom,...

Just Stop Talking, Bro: Check Out This Cringeworthy Description Of A Dodge Challenger By “That Guy”.

You know “that guy” at the car show. The one always talking. The one you wish would just shut up for five seconds, but won’t because he’s too busy trying to baffle you with...

Watch This Road Racer Avoid a Tank-Slapping Supra By Inches

The Classic Sports Car Club (CSCC) in the United Kingdom hosts a whole ton of classes and their field for the “Future Classics” class includes a whole pile of sports cars from the 1970s and...

Top-Tier Movement: Watch This Twin-Turbocharged HSV Grange Run An 8.96 Quarter!

This car looks familiar to me. During one of my two jaunts in a hot and sandy place, I got to drive a Chevrolet Caprice that we most certainly did not see in the States at the time. Big, roomy, and...

Ooh La La: Check Out This French 1980s Citroen Up For Sale On CraigsList

French cars have a checkered history in the United States market. Renault famously bought-out the bankrupt shell of American Motors in the late 1970s in a futile attempt to gain a foothold in the...

Photo Coolness: This Is The Bonneville – The Living Embodiment Of All That Rules About LSR

(Editor’s note: This story originally appeared in August 2013 and is being reprinted now as part of our run-up to Speed Week 2016!) These photos were taking in the impound lot at Bonneville on...

Classic YouTube: This 1969 Television Ad For The Ford Torino Cobra Is Old-School Perfection!

Ford, in the middle of a cut-throat war with Chrysler over who had the baddest machine on the planet, could not have been happy to see the sales success of the Plymouth Road Runner when it debuted in...

The Ridetech 48-Hour Corvette Just Keeps On Racing! And It Gets Faster All The Time.

The Ridetech 48-Hour Camaro and 48-Hour Corvette have taken on lives of their own. People stop with them all the time for pictures, tell stories about watching us build them live on the internet, and...

Comfy Cruiser Or Muscle Monster? Why Not Both With This 1969 Pontiac Grand Prix Model J?

It was the introduction of the car of the 1970s, the personal luxury coupe. But in 1969, the Pontiac Grand Prix didn’t look like some overstuffed, underpowered barge but instead more like a...

We Found Five Cars, For Under $1000, That Would Make Great Drag Cars

I do searches on Craigslist for all kinds of cars and trucks. But often times I just put in a dollar value that is the max I want to look at. I started doing that because I had no money and...

Driver’s OK, Car Sure Isn’t: Check Out Derrike Cope’s Unexplained Explosion From Watkins Glen!

If this doesn’t make it into a NASCAR Top 10 list somewhere this year, someone’s fired, because this is the strangest thing we’ve seen from roundy-round racing this year. During an...

It’s The Van Man! This 1967 Mystery Machine Style G10 Sport Van Is Rad.

You know we have a weakness for vans around here. And wagons, and tractors, and all kinds of odd things. But, that’s why you love us, and why we LOVE this 1967 Chevy G10 Sportsvan. It’s...

Scrapple, Your Guide To The “meh”-Worthy News! This Week: Poke-Tesla, Say “SKOD-a”, And A Sad Goodbye

Sun-baked, running from track to track, and showing no signs of stopping, we march on to bring you news, both important and…well, not. As Chad stands on a glass panel several hundred feet in...