Event Coverage: Saturday Action from GoodGuys Des Moine 2010
Record numbers of participants and spectators filled the Iowa State Fairgrounds for this weekend’s GoodGuys Heartland Nationals in Des Moines Iowa, and we’ve got photos to prove it....
Event Coverage: 19th Good Guys Heartland Nationals Des Moines
With over 3000 cars showing up for Friday of the Good Guys 19th Heartland Nationals, and amazing 85 degree weather, we can’t wait to see what Saturday will bring. Our first impression of the...
Funny Video: How George Washington Kicked Ass in a Dodge Challenger
As we begin winding down for this Fourth of July holiday weekend, we were inspired to show you the recently minted web commercial for the Dodge Challenger. If you’ve not see it, George...
Dodge Viper Production Ends Today…For Two Years
The Dodge Viper as we know it is dead. In fact, by the time you read this, the last example of this iconic sports car has probably rolled off the assembly line at the Conner Avenue plant. Fiat,...
Killer New Product: The Nightmare Motorsports Stealth Nozzle — A Nitrous Breakthrough!
Scott Vanderschoor, the owner and chief lunatic behind Nightmare Motorsports (and a dedicated BangShifter!), has invented what we believe to be the coolest nitrous innovation to come along in some...
National Collector Car Appreciation Day Set for July 9th
The first ever Collector Car Appreciation day, as created by a US Senate Resolution, is set to go down on July 9, 2010. It’s definitely a day to get out on the road with your hot rod and...
The Paddock to Liquidate All Assets at July 29th Auction
The Paddock, a company that supplied parts for muscle cars of all varieties for more than 40 years has closed and will sell off all of it’s assets at a July 29th auction to be held at the Avon,...
Craigslist Find: A Nova Stock Car You May Love to Hate
We’ve decried our love of old school stock cars before, so it is no shock that our gear oil filled heat was aflutter when we laid eyes on this Nova located in Hiram, Georgia. The catch?...
Cool Video: A Crown Vic With a 5-Speed and Open Pipes Gets Thrashed
This video is cool as hell and makes us smile in the face of the bad news regarding the fact that Crown Vic production is going to stop in about a year. The video shows a guy thrashing on his late...
Dumbass Alert: Florida Carjackers Steal Truck They Cannot Drive
School’s out so that means Florida carjacking season is on full tilt. We ran across a story from the Orlando Sentinel about two enterprising young thugs who set up a scheme to steal a vehicle,...
It Came From the Fab Shop: A Guided Tour of the Boeing 787 Dreamliner
(By Loren Krussow) – The relentless and expensive pursuit of a slightly-lower ET or a few more miles-per-hour in our cars could seem ironic, given that for the price of a commercial airline...
Doing it Wrong Video: How Not to Winch a Stuck Land Rover Out of the Muck
If you’ve never experienced the fun of trying to extract a truck out of deep mud, consider yourself lucky. It’s fun to laugh about hours after the job is done, but it can be pure misery....
Elderly Ohio Man Busted Stealing Corvettes
This story had us shaking our heads. A 71-year old Ohio man was busted by the coppers and charged with aiding and abetting the operation of an automobile chop shop, and interstate transportation of...
Auto Trader Classics Find: An Insane 1967 Ford Bronco Rod
First generation Ford Broncos are neat trucks. We’ve seen them in all forms from sloggin’ mud boggers, to wheel-pulling drag cars. Hell, Doug Nash ran a flip-up Bronco-bodied funny car in...
