Author Archive: Dave Nutting
Petrolicious Video: A Man And His Car Roadtrip The United States
With all of the car shows, wrenching, racing, and just general automotive hijinks that get the most attention both online and offline within our collective automotive culture, I sometimes feel like...
Nutjob: The 2014 Z/28 Can Fly But Still Isn’t Worth $75,000
(Nutjob is a semi-regular item that Dave Nutting writes whenever he feels the need to rant about something. It often doesn’t make sense, but his doctors told us that it’s in our best interests to...
Automotive Crush Of The Week: Toyota Celica GT-Four
Over on the BangShift forums there is a great thread titled “So what car do you want today?”. Started by our own Charles Wickam, this thread is full of photos of vehicles, some common and some...
Apex Video: Matt Farah Benchmarks His Foxbody On A Roadcourse
As someone that loves The General’s products as much as I do, I have a confession to make: I’ve always secretly lusted over Foxbody Mustangs. Yes, it’s true: From the early “four-eyed” cars...
Autocross Season Is Upon Us! Does YOUR Region Offer the CAM class?
This last weekend I received a reminder email from the New England region SCCA club letting me know that the first points autocross event of the year is in less than four weeks. Say what?!?...
BangShift Question Of The Day: Ever Had Your Day Made By Seeing “That Guy” Get What He Deserves?
Today’s BangShift Question Of The Day is inspired by an old video that I found while rummaging through the hard drive of one of the computers that I have lying in various states of disrepair...
Feature Video From Petrolicious: This 1927 Oakland Racer is Old-School Cool
“And now for something completely different”. Here for your Friday morning viewing pleasure is another great video from Petrolicious. If you’re not yet subscribed to their youTube channel, do...
Skip The Coffee, This Footage Of 90’s Subaru Rally Action Will Wake You Up!
I was never really into Subarus as a kid during the 90s, if only because the majority of Subarus you saw in New England in the 90s were beat up old Leones and Legacies. Once in a while an Impreza was...
This Stop Motion Car Chase Is Better Than The Last Fast And Furious Movie
Man, do I love car chases. Unfortunately, due to these crazy things we have called “laws” and “prisons with large inmates”, odds are it’s not in my best interest to re-enact some of my...
What Is The One Automotive Gauge That You Couldn’t Live Without?
Having just passed the six month mark of ownership with my ‘87 Monte Carlo LS, it’s safe to say that there is one thing that is driving me bonkers about the car, and it’s the lack of gauges in...
In Torque We Trust: Petrolicious Spends Some Quality Time With A 1967 Plymouth Barracuda Formula S
If there’s one thing that I love watching on youTube, it’s spring break videos automotive videos with high production value: Car reviews from Top Gear UK, the Ken Block Gymkhana series,...
Mission Impossible: Nutting Picks Eleven Of The Best And Worst General Motors G-bodies
Last night Brian called me up and we had the following conversation: Brian: “Nutting, it’s the middle of the week and your last two blog items have been weak sauce, so I’ve got a challenge...
BangShift Question Of The Day: What Music Do You Listen To When Wrenching On Your Vehicles?
Driving home today, I realized that the majority of my day’s activities involves listening to music, whether it’s on the commute to and from work, slogging through some debugging and...
