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Watch The 1988 NHRA Southern Nationals Right Here – This Was A Race For The Ages

Ahhhhh yes, as we continue on with the 2018 NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing season Atlanta Dragway looms large on the horizon. That’s where we are racing this year as one of the tour’s true...

Morning Symphony: The Gringo Malibu Launching Like A Missile!

Growing up, a four-door G-body Malibu would’ve been labeled a “parts car” and pushed out into the far sections of the yard. One in particular stayed in memory: a white Malibu, tan...

Viva Las Vegas 2018 Photo Coverage: Great Paint, Long Low and Lovely Lead Sleds, More!

(Photos by Wes Allison) – If it is newer than 1963, it isn’t getting into the Viva Las Vegas show. That’s the cutoff year and that’s the way it always has been. For those of you who...

Power Player: This 1972 Mercedes-Benz SLC 350 Is The Freak Pro Street Build For The Tasteful Gearhead!

There is just something dirty about taking a Mercedes-Benz, a car that stands for luxury, engineering, and a status that puts the owner on an imaginary pedestal above all other, lesser drivers and...

Oregon Trail Rally! Watch As Ken Block And Alex Gelsomino Break In Block’s Escort Cosworth RS Right!

The Oregon Trail Rally is one of two that I’ve gone to in person, back in 2010. The area around Dufur, Oregon is noted for big, broad rolling hills and a kind of high-desert meets plains type...

Street Outlaws: No Prep Kings – Raceday Photos From GALOT Motorsports Park

(Photos by David Whealon) – Here’s our last batch of Street Outlaws: No Prep Kings photos from GALOT Motorsports Park in North Carolina. If you saw the episode or saw all the internet...

Classic YouTube: A Geo Tracker Climbing The Escalator On The Hell’s Revenge Trail At Moab!

Light, simple and when geared properly, plenty capable, Geo Trackers are a better memory to have of the small-car GM brand than the Metro and have aged better over the years. They are scrappy little...

The “WTF?” Files: This 1970 GMC Suburban Triple-Axle Custom Truck Is Back For Sale!

I’m pretty sure that 1970 GMC Suburban triple-axle custom truck haunts Lohnes’ dreams at night. It’s been enough that he’s written about it twice (first in 2013, and then...

Car Show Photos: 14th Annual Ace’s Car Club Hot Rod Resurrection – Fun In The SoCal Sun

(Photos by Wes Allison) – For about a decade and a half the Aces Car Club has bee holding their Hot Rod Resurrection show. The Old World Village in Huntington Beach, California was the...

The Greatest Craigslist Listing Of All Time Is Hawking A 1999 Corolla – Seriously – Must Read

(By Greg Rourke) – Many cars for sale on many different forums have been featured on these hallowed pages over the years. This car is without question the most boring car with perhaps the most...

Video: The 1993 Ford Taurus SHO Was A Good Car – But How Good Was It? First Year For The Slushbox

Maybe because it was the late 1980s and early 1990s. Maybe it was because I was a pre-teen and then a teen. Maybe it was because this was an era where pretty much every car that everyone was making...

The Corvette ZR1 At Road Atlanta – The Weaponized Corvette Can Throw Down!

I’ve seen a few of them running around town, and I got to get up close with the parked display model and the precious few that were in owner’s hands at the Michelin NCM Bash a few days...

Do You Race A Modified? AFCO Has Your 1968-1972 Chevelle Frame Needs Covered

There are thousands and thousands of racers out there competing on America’s hundreds of dirt tracks in racecars known as Modifieds. They are among the most long lasting and storied of all dirt...

Viva Las Vegas 2018 Photo Coverage: Wagons Ho! Here Are Some Of The Most BangShifty Long Roofs We Saw

(Photos by Wes Allison) – It is funny how things change over time. The cars you see in the gallery below were certainly not “cool” when they were first released. They were machines...