Optima Film Festival Winner: Afternoon Donuts — This Is A Brilliant Short Film
We had the chance to attend some really cool events at SEMA this year and the Optima Film Festival was certainly one o them. Optima had invited filmmakers to submit their best work in one of two...
Bob Perkins Collection: We Visit The Greatest Assemblage Of Low Milage Classic Mustangs In The World
(Words and photos by Bob Chiluk) – So you think you hit the Holy Grail when you find a fifty year old car with ten thousand miles or less on the clock. So what do you call it when you have a...
Want The Ultimate 2016 SEMA Show Cruiser? This 1960 Cadillac Eldorado Biarritz Is Your Ticket!
We need to upgrade our program. See, when guys like us do the SEMA show we spend the majority of our lives cooped up in the Las Vegas Convention Center during the day. We’re writing stories,...
SEMA 2015: Cars Of All Shapes And Sizes From Late Model To Rat Rod – Fun Stuff!
After performing a pretty informal poll of people who had displays at the 2015 SEMA show, I got a couple of near universal positive answers. People believed that this SEMA is likely the largest one...
Let Randy Pobst Teach You The Basics Of Performance Shifting In His Latest Episode Of The Racing Line!
There’s nothing quite like some excellent gear-banging to get the day started, is there? No, there isn’t. Why else would we call ourselves BangShift? No-lift shifting is great for the...
Used Car Lot Review: 2006 Cadillac STS-V – Meet The CTS-V’s Equally Angry Big Brother
There are really three types of Cadillac: the old-school all-visual, ultra-luxury Caddy that pretty much went away after the early 1970s Eldorado, the big floaty barges that filled in both front and...
Wham Is The Coolest 1969 Ford LTD Possibly Ever – The Story Behind the Car Is Cooler Still
What is it about big cars that makes me smile? I don’t know why my DNA strands have locked me into loving the huge cars of the late 1970s and early 1970s but I do so you can imagine my glee...
ACED: AutoCross Every Day! Cody Mason In Ken Thwaits Wicked Witch Z28 Camaro At Optima Fontana
The Optima Ultimate Street Car Invitational is officially starting this afternoon in Las Vegas when all the competitors fire up their cars and pull them out of the 2015 SEMA Show and onto the streets...
The Admeyer 1933 Chevrolet Roadster Is One Of The Classiest Hot Rods At SEMA 2015
Cars like this normally don’t catch my eye. Cars like this are not the things that stop me in my tracks and draw me in to see more. Cars like this often require an intimate knowledge of what...
SEMA 2015 Coverage: Meet Most Of The Combatants For The Optima Ultimate Street Car Invitational
If there is a cool tradition at SEMA that has really grown into something special it is the Optima Ultimate Street Car Invitational. This pro touring event has become the premier competition of pro...
We Check Out Chris Alston Chassisworks New Torque Arm Rear Suspension For Camaros And Novas
Torque arms are cool. And they can be found in everything from drag cars to road race machines, autocross to stock offerings from GM. They offer some really unique rear suspension geometry advantages...
This Class 11 Baja Bug Is The Toughest Vehicle At The 2015 SEMA Show – Here’s Why
The little car sits among a veritable garden of massive, lifted four by four trucks. It is a funny sight at first and if we could turn real life into the movie “Cars” those big trucks...
Late Model Performance Cars and Race Cars at SEMA 2015 – Lots of newer iron and faster iron here
If you have been wondering where all the race car photos were and where all the late model muscle photos were, wonder not more as you’ve found them! Both Chad and I agree that there are fewer...
Ever Wonder What A Car Designer Drives? In This Case A Bitchin Classic
“The car only screams when you put your foot on the pedal” says Radu Muntean, a car designer with a serious passion for cool cars like his BMW 2002. We like someone that describes their...
