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Woodward Dream Cruise 2016: Waking Up To The Sounds Of Yesterday

With only a few hours to shoot the action on Saturday, I faced a dilemma: did I take a ton of photos or did I use my time to shoot live video? Truth was, I did both, because I was starting to get...

2016 Woodward Dream Cruise: Up With The Sun And The Early Cruisers On Saturday Morning!

Much like the days prior, I was up not only before the sun, but before the free breakfast at the hotel, slamming a Red Bull and getting ready for what was going to be a solid day of awesomeness....

2016 Woodward Dream Cruise: More Early Birds Driving The Loop On Friday!

Automotive diversity. It’s something that I enjoy at shows. I want to see more than the predictable Camaro or Mustang…I want unique, I want vision, I want something that I won’t see...

Unhinged: …And They Just Kept Coming, By The Hundreds

At some point, I have to stop saying that I’m new to this game. I have to become a touch cynical, a touch…I don’t know how quite to word this without coming off like an...

2016 Woodward Dream Cruise: More Early-Bird Rides From Friday…One Day Before The Cruise!

As I’m typing this, the Woodward Dream Cruise is actually going on. The third Saturday of August is the official day of the cruise, but cars have been rolling up and down Woodward Avenue for at...

Cruising Woodward Early: Check Out Some Of The Iron Rolling Down The Road!

I grew up reading the stories from the guys who were actually there when the real scene was happening. Telegraph Road. Woodward Avenue. Diners, burger joints, cars everywhere. Races from light to...

Sittin’ With The Best View: 2016 MSHS and DAMM Modern Mopar Car Show On Woodward

The thing I’ve grown to like about the Modern Mopar community is that it doesn’t matter how pretty the car is, it will be used to it’s full potential. And there are some damn pretty...

MSHS HEMI’nsanity At Milan Dragway: Good Runs And Bad Luck In Michigan!

As you read yesterday, Milan was not kind to either myself or Angry Grandpa, with our luck running out right about the first elimination run in the Modern Street Hemi Shootout bracket race. But that...

MSHS HEMI’nsanity At Milan Dragway: Modern Mopar Power Screaming In Michigan!

In the predawn hours, the silence was broken, one by one, as Hemi after Hemi was fired up as if to greet the sun in some bizarre ritual. From the lowliest, most basic stocker to the 8-second capable...

2016 Mopar Nats Gallery: Our Final Gallery From The Fields Of Mopar Dreams In Ohio!

The Mopar Nats were everything that I could have hoped for, everything that I expected it to be, and then some. It might have taken nearly a decade or more to finally make the trek out to Hebron,...

Poteet’s Speed Demon Sets New B/Blown Fuel Streamliner Record At 416.511 mph Monday Bonneville Speed Week 2016

He’s done it again! George Poteet, driving the Speed Demon Streamliner, has set another record here at Bonneville Speed Week 2016, breaking a 16 year old record held by the Teague, Welch, Banks...

2016 Mopar Nats Gallery: Mopars Shining In The Glory Of A Lovely Saturday Morning!

By all accounts, our first day at the 2016 Mopar Nats was a success: I had driven over five hours from Bowling Green, Kentucky to Hebron, Ohio and only managed to knock my alignment out slightly in...

2016 Mopar Nats: More Scenes From The “Fun Field” On Friday!

Even for Mopar people who do their research, the size of the Mopar Nats is something of a surprise: there are fields…not small lots, fields…surrounding National Trail Raceway in Hebron,...

UPDATE! The Scoop! Here’s Every Single Car That Will Be Running For A Record At Bonneville On Sunday

UPDATE: Both Danny Thompson and George Poteet have set records in their classes this morning! Poteet rocketed down course at 410mph to grab his and Danny Thompson tool care of business at 402mph! One...