Archives by Month:

Archives by Year:

Cause Who Doesn’t Want A Street Legal Class 5 Baja Bug To Race AND Drive!

Try doing a search on Craigslist using just the words Race Car and you will end up finding some pretty cool stuff, at least here in SoCal anyway. And when I did that search yesterday, I found this...

Unhinged: The Woodward Dream Cruise Adventure

The direct trip from Bowling Green, Kentucky to Pontiac, Michigan should take approximately eight hours. That’s a long stretch of driving, but with just over five hundred miles to cover,...

Trouble Down Under: Column Paints Stark Picture Of Aussie Supercar Series

What happens when a factory style racing series loses virtually all of its factories? That’s the question that the organizers of the V8 Supercars series (now the Supercars series) are asking...

Sleeper For Sale: This Chevelle Has Four Doors, a Big Block, and a Blower!

Sleepers come in all shapes and sizes. From tricky mini-vans to tiny pocket rockets and muscle cars that appear to have seen better days, there’s no wrong way to sleeper in our book. That being...

Money No Object: The Big-Block Shelby Daytona Super Coupe Will Return! Six Examples Will Be Produced!

CSX2286 is one of the most important Shelby Daytona Coupes ever made: it is the only Daytona Super Coupe made for LeMans racing, a program that never left the ground. Here’s how the story goes:...

Anything Goes: This 2007 Dodge Charger Daytona Can Do Just About Everything!

Early on Sunday morning, as Haley and I were packing up Angry Grandpa for the long drive back to Kentucky, few cars remained from the MSHS group that we had been hanging around with all week. One...

Amazing Video: Original Footage Of Don Garlits Winning The 1967 US Nationals And Shaving His Beard At The Starting Line – All Time Stuff!

I know that I am a weird guy and I am OK with saying that out loud because when I watch a video like this, I feel myself getting emotional because of how cool the whole scene is. Just one of the...

Could Jeep Go Chinese? Great Wall Has Expressed Interest In Acquiring The Brand

Surprisingly enough, I have experiences with Great Wall automobiles. Many of the non-military contractor vehicles available during my stays in Iraq were Great Wall Deer pickup trucks (read: rebadged...

Unhinged: This Ford Explorer-Meets-Jeep Build We Found At Woodward Is Awesome!

It’s been almost four months since the picked carcass that was the Rollover Explorer made it’s way to Causey’s Auto Parts in Bowling Green, and even though we asked nicely to be a...

The Unlikely Hero: Regular Car Reviews The 1994 Ford Taurus SHO

In middle school, I once had a conversation with a kid on the bus about what we wanted for a first car…or, rather, what he wanted as a first car, since my first Camaro had come and gone and I...

This 1970 Dodge Challenger Is Mopar Perfection: Hemi, 4-Speed, Black On Black, With A Dana 60.

In 1970 everyone was buzzing about the new Mopars, but it was the Cuda that was the star of the show. With that said, Dodge’s new Challenger was one hell of a hot rod and shared the same E-Body...

Exorcising The Demon: Pennzoil Cuts Dodge’s Monster Loose In Philadelphia

Pennzoil’s series of mini-movies involving a hired wheelman and some sort of yellow four-wheeled dream machine hasn’t ended yet. They’ve paid homage to the Hellcat Challenger and...

Northern Illinois Steam and Power Show Coverage: More Behemoth Tractors and Mechanical Coolness

This is great coverage and the only downside to these Greg Rourke photos is the fact that we’ve gotten to the end of the line. As you have likely been able to tell by Greg’s contributions...

Woodward Dream Cruise Weekend 2017: Come Rain, Mist, Or A Bad Case Of Windburn, We Shall Deliver!

Friday afternoon was a grab-bag of weather for the pre-Cruise. It wasn’t the absolute flooding that the race at Milan had turned out to be, but it was far from peachy weather. Clouds that...