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Action Gallery: Speedway Motors CAM Challenge East Event Saturday Photos
(Words and photos by Dave Nutting) – The Speedway Motors CAM Challenge East at Grissom Air Force Base in Peru, Indiana was two weekends ago and I made the 1800 mile round-trip in my 1987 Monte...
Scrapple, Your Guide To The “meh”-Worthy News: Goodbye, Brave Little Toaster, Pininfarina News and Uber Busted!
Where has this week gone? Seriously…somebody tell me, I haven’t really been out of my room this week. I got one day in of house shopping in, then I got sick and I’ve been at home...
Nut Driver: The Long Journey Home (Part 3) | Quality Time With The “Other” Monte
[“Nut Driver” features updates on Dave Nutting’s 1987 Chevrolet Monte Carlo] To catch up on the other installments, click HERE One of my goals for this year was to attend a full season of SCCA...
Drag Week Uncensored Part 1: What It’s Really Like To Drive A 6 Second S10 Cross Country!
When normal people are standing around looking at a car, where something about it causes a wee bit of concern due to the extreme nature, impromptu repair, or what have you, I’m often excited at...
BangShift Exclusive: Check Out Our Tour Of Stacey David’s Rattletrap Productions and Gearz Studio!
It’s not like I ever need a reason to go to a car show, but when our buddy Jeff Lee at Hammerhead IRS suggested that I make an appearance at the Fontanel Car Cruise-In, we were intrigued. When he...
1962 Ferrari 250 GTO sells at Monterey for over $38 Million Dollars
The 1962 Ferrari GTO, considered the ultimate Ferrari to own, crossed the auction block at Monterey for $38,115,000 before premiums. Add to that a buyer’s premium of 20%, and you have a final...
How to get a Porsche 356 out of your attic in a couple easy steps
A long time ago, I visited the folks at KTR European Motorsport in Ayer, Massachusetts. They have a great shop 40 minutes due west of Boston, and have made their name providing racing services for...
See How A Determined Cartoonist Got The CEO Of Tesla Motors To Donate A Million Dollars For The Creation Of A Tesla Museum
To celebrate the 158th birthday of Nikola Tesla, Elon Musk, the CEO of Tesla Motors, donated $1 million dollars toward the creation of a Nikola Tesla Museum at Wardenclyffe, Long Island, New York,...
Watch The Earliest Videos of ‘Chuteless Skydiving-Nerves of Ice Mandatory
Jumping out of an aircraft without a parachute is universally recognized as an act of suicide. With a typical human hitting terminal velocity (maximum attainable speed) of about 120-ish miles per...
The Lingenfelter Collection – A BangShifty First Look Into One Of America’s Great Assemblages Of Horsepower And Beauty
(Photos by Dave Nutting) – The door opened, the lights came on, and the three of us nearly swooned like Victorian era women on a fainting couch at the sight of what lay before us. Three huge...
Vespa-powered Number 20 – This Might be the coolest hand-built vintage quarter midget in history
We’ve featured quarter midgets from time to time, but nobody’s ever seen one like this. In the 1950s, a guy with a whole lot of talent and a kid who was crazy for racing built this amazing car,...
Strip Visit: Cool Cars And Trucks At Mooresville Dragway’s Test And Tune Night With A Bonus Gasser!
Know what a drag racing announcer does the day before he goes to the drag races? He goes to the drag races, ya big dummy! Continuing to share some of my adventure with Eric Yost and the guys, the...
Rat Rods, Street Machines, Hot Rods, And Woodie Wagons At Goodguys Del Mar
This hit parade of photos from the 2014 Goodguys Del Mar show continues today with a gallery containing some really interesting freak cars. Not all of them are freaks but there are two jumping out at...
Inside Lingenfelter Performance Engineering: We Tour The Hallowed Horsepower Haven In Indiana
(Photos by Dave Nutting and Craig Fitzgerald) – When I initially reached out to Mike Copeland at Lingenfelter Performance Engineering about making a banzai trip out to see the Decatur, Indiana...