Optima’s Search For The Ultimate Street Car Hits Vegas And We Aren’t Keeping Quiet About It!
Mar 21, 2018Chad Reynolds1
(Words and Photos by Kaleb Kelley) Optima’s Search for the Ultimate Street Car returns for its fifth season on TV and 10th season of the event in Las Vegas. We love these events and are strangely...
Show Photos: Planes, Trains, and Automobiles (and more!) The Piston Powered Auto-Rama is the largest indoor show on the planet!
Mar 20, 2018Brian Lohnes1
(Words and photos by Mike Brooks) – One of the shows at the top of my list each year is an insanely huge indoor show in Cleveland OH. The Summit Racing Equipment I-X Piston Powered Auto-Rama...
Lancha Gigante: This 1961 Chrysler Newport Is A Road Rally Beast That Needs A New Home!
Mar 19, 2018Bryan McTaggart1
Once it turns a tire in anger, any race car worth it’s weight will show signs of it’s use. It’s just a fact…no race car should be a concours-restored, picture perfect machine....
How Long Does It Take To Kill The Brake Pads On A Tesla Model 3? Nine Miles Of Track-Day Use At Laguna Seca, As This Guy Found Out!
Mar 18, 2018Bryan McTaggart5
In all honesty, even at 3,838 pounds curb weight, the Tesla Model 3 isn’t that heavy for a modern-day car, let alone a true electric vehicle. It’s affordable and meant to be the low-cost,...
Morning Symphony: The Mighty Roar Of The Upper Crust Race Car, The Bentley Continental GT3
Mar 18, 2018Bryan McTaggartComments Off on Morning Symphony: The Mighty Roar Of The Upper Crust Race Car, The Bentley Continental GT3
Unless it’s kissed a concrete wall head-on at speed, anything with the Bentley badge is meant to be two things: sporty and expensive with a capital “F”. From the days of the 4 1/2...
Best In The West Award Announced for LS Fest West 2018
Mar 18, 2018Chad Reynolds3
Listen up LS Fest West fans! LS Fest event staff are pleased to announce the Best In The West, a unique new award for LS Fest West 2018 participants. How will the winner be decided? We’re going to...
Is This The Ultimate Air Cooled Porsche? The Gunther Werks 400R Is Spectacular
Mar 17, 2018Chad Reynolds1
The Porsche 911, and it’s variants, are some of the most icon driver’s cars in the world. I’m not a “Porsche Guy”, but I love the 911. I’d drive an LS swapped 944...
RideTech’s 48-Hour Camaro Hits The Autocross!
Mar 17, 2018Kaleb Kelley1
A few years back, we were a part of RideTech’s first 48-hour Camaro build with their 1967 Camaro. This year at Barrett-Jackson Scottsdale, they built a new 48-Hour Camaro and developed some new...
Classic YouTube: The 1981 Kelly American Challenge Race From Portland, Oregon
Mar 16, 2018Bryan McTaggartComments Off on Classic YouTube: The 1981 Kelly American Challenge Race From Portland, Oregon
Between 1977 and 1989, IMSA had a race that allowed you to bring any American car to play on the roadcourses as a kind of preview race ahead of the IMSA GT main event. Dubbed the Kelly American...
This 428 Powered 1966 Mercury Monterey Could Be The Best Deal On The Interwebs Today
Mar 15, 2018Brian Lohnes5
Intrepid BangShifter Matt Cramer sent us the link to this 1966 Mercury Monterey which is for sale in Georgia. For a shade more than $3,000 you are getting a factory 428 car with (from what we can...
Money No Object: Banging Gears In This Factory Five Daytona Coupe Replica Is Worth The Cost
Mar 15, 2018Bryan McTaggart9
I don’t want to know how much a real-deal Shelby Daytona Coupe goes for. Big money is the understatement of the century. But the replica market on the closed-in version of the car that Peter...
2018 Detroit Autorama Coverage: Trucks, Drag Machines, Big Rigs, an Hemi Engines Galore
Mar 15, 2018Brian Lohnes1
(Photos by Jose Ferrer) – Who wants to go to a car show and just see one type of thing, right? I mean when I was a kid we went to some Pontiac conventions and while it was a single brand,...
Factory Ringer: This 1989 Chevrolet Camaro 1LE Is A Race Car First And Foremost
Mar 14, 2018Bryan McTaggart5
Chevrolet’s Camaro has always been a car that wore it’s options codes with pride. Z/28, B4C and every engine code known in the Chevrolet lexicon tie into the Camaro at some point or...
2018 Detroit Autorama Photo Coverage: We’re Far From Done Showing Off Cool Stuff From The Motor City
Mar 14, 2018Brian LohnesComments Off on 2018 Detroit Autorama Photo Coverage: We’re Far From Done Showing Off Cool Stuff From The Motor City
(Photos by Jose Ferrer) – Ha! Just when you thought it was safe to emerge from your bunker, we’re back with more photos from the 2018 Detroit Autorama. This time the photos come from the...










