The Curious Case Of The Crumpled Star Chief – Check Out This Oddly Damaged Old Pontiac
(By Greg Rourke) – Why do I like living in northern Illinois? I have no answer for that. Snow, cold, road salt, prisons full of our former governors, rusty cars, tornadoes, hot humid summers,...
Watch Jim Rockford And His Trusty Firebird Out Fox The Gnarly Hot Rodded Corvette Of The Bad Guys
James Garner may no longer be with us but his legacy lives on. He was always a gearhead and a racer like Steve McQueen and he performed the majority of the driving stunts and action stuff during his...
To Be Honest, This Trip To The Local Quick Lube Place Could Have Gone Better – Video
This video is pretty hilarious mainly because no one got hurt, the car has since been repaired, and the music bed laid down under the footage of this innocent Chevy bursting into flames after an oil...
This Used To Be An 1972 Cutlass – It Is Now A “Sports Car”
Tim Booher sent us the link to this car, which used to be a 1972 Cutlass. It is now, according to the seller a “sports car”. We don’t know what sport. We really have no words for...
This Short Video About 1980s Trans Am Racing Is Awesome – Great Action!
When it wasn’t drag racing, swamp buggies, or stock car racing of some type on TV it was usually SCCA Trans Am and GTP style road racing. These classes were hugely popular in the 1980s, largely...
The American Powertrain Parting Shift: The Fancy Footwork of Ricky Rudd At Sears Point 1994
One of the elements of racing a manual transmission car that we don’t spend near enough time talking about is the footwork that must happen in order to make the best shifts up and down through...
So You Thought The Four Door Trans-Am Was Weird? How About The Oddest Movie Corvette Of All Time?
(By Greg Rourke) – Recently Brian showed us a Trans Am stretch limo. Okay, I’ll see your T/A and raise you a 1979 Vette stretch. One with genuine Hollywood provenance. In 1999 we had the...
Want To Buy A Racetrack? Ace Speedway Is For Sale! A Bullring, A Pulling Course, More
If you have been dying to get into the race track ownership business, here’s your chance. No, it is not a drag strip but rather an awesome little circle track in North Carolina. Ace Speedway is...
NASCAR Contemplating Mufflers For Cars As Way Of “Enhancing” Fan Experience
In a continuing effort to destroy their own sport, NASCAR is apparently considering adding mufflers to their cars in order to make the races more fan friendly. Yes, that’s why no one is showing...
Awesome Corvette! This 1969 Big Block, 4-speed Street Freak Was Built IN 1976
Well this thing is just beyond words, isn’t it? For some of you that means it is beyond words to describe how much you hate it. For us it is beyond words to share how much we’re in love!...
Cool Car For Sale: This 1966 Ford Cortina GT Powered By A 302!
Of all the cars in the world to want, my one weird car desire is to own a Lotus Cortina. I may want to review that to “was” because now by weird car desire is to own this 1966 Cortina GT...
Video: Northern Bel – David Meyer’s Turbocharged Hemi Belvedere Is Featured On House of Muscle
By now you have likely heard of David Meyer’s incredible Northern Bel. This is the car that was built at Rad Ride by Troy, employs a 1,600hp twin turbocharged 526ci Chrysler Hemi, has run Drag...
Oh Canada – This Four Door 1980 Trans-Am Is One Freaky Limo-ish Thing
Guys, there are two of them. Yes there is more than one four door 1980 Trans-Am out there and apparently the same guy owns both. We came to that brilliant conclusion after seeing the ad for this...
Before Bonneville: More Historic Images From The Ormond Beach Speed Trials 1910 and Older!
(Photo credit: DPL Digital Collection) – Last week we showed you the first of a few batches of photos we dug up featuring cars, people, and action at the famed Ormond Beach (Florida) speed...
