Cool Trucks, Cool Ads: International Scout
How about a cool, late-’60s, early-’70s ad for an International Scout? It seems that this one comes from across the pond as there’s a speaker who has a distinctly English accent and...
Cool Trucks, Cool Ads: The 1969 Dodge D-100
This second installment of our “Cool Trucks, Cool Ads” feature today takes us back to 1969 and a great ad from “The Dodge Boys” featuring a guy in a gorilla suit and a D-100...
Cool Trucks, Cool Ads: 1986 Ford F250
Yesterday we brought you the stink with our slew of “Awful Cars, Awful Ads” blog entires. Today we’re turning the tables to show you cool ads featuring the most American vehicle...
Event Gallery: Bruce Larson’s USA-1 Dragfest 2009
Bruce Larson, the 1989 NHRA Funny Car champion and long time legend, opens up his barn and property to the public every Fall for Dragfest. It’s part car show, part gathering of legends, and all...
Indy Motor Speedway CEO Looks to Make Sweeping Changes
By all accounts, Jeff Belskus, the guy who took over for Tony George as the CEO of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway and its various holdings, walked into a mess. Belskus is now setting to work trying...
Great Rant: Transcript of Peter DeLorenzo’s Speech to the Milwaukee Region SCCA Banquet
Peter DeLorenzo is the man behind Autoextremist.com and has penned many a good rant about one automotive topic or another, but this one may be his finest yet. The rant is actually a transcript of a...
Bizarre eBay Find: 1967 Oldsmobile Limo
BangShift.com member 1988MonteCarloSS found this insane 1967 Olds Toronado limo for sale on eBay. We had to share it because it is quite possibly the weirdest thing we have ever seen. At first glance...
Awful Cars, Awful Ads: The Yugo
Next on the docket of junk that is comprising our Awful Ads, Awful Cars fun today is the venerable Yugo. There are a bunch of people who will defend the little car that was sold for less and $4,000...
Video: The Old CarJunkieTV Blown Big-Block Chevy
I’m sick as a dog today and am just sitting around surfing YouTube. I found this old video we did back the days of CarJunkieTV.com and realized that it shows us dyno testing the same blown...
Awful Cars, Awful Ads: The 1983 Renault Alliance
The next member of our Awful Cars, Awful Ads hall of shame is the Renault Alliance. This putrid heap of shoddy French engineering was sold through AMC dealers after Renault took at 46 percdent stake...
Awful Cars, Awful Ads: The 1985 Plymouth Reliant/ Dodge Aries
Continuing with our Awful Cars, Awful Ads theme today, we have the 1985 Plymouth Reliant/Dodge Aries one-two punch. More like gut punch. Yes, these cars effectively saved Chrysler from sliding under...
Awful Cars, Awful Ads: The 1984 Cadillac Cimarron
On the heels of reading Rob Kinnan’s great editorial entitled “Crappy Cars” in the January 2010 edition of Hot Rod magazine, we were inspired to act on a crappy car impulse we were...
Crazy Turbine Powered Honda Motorcycle
BangShift.com forum member Eagle Kammback posted a link to this totally wild Boeing T-50 Turbine powered Honda motorcycle in the forum section and we just had to throw it up here on the front page....
Buy Jeremy Mayfield’s Stuff Online
On November 20th, the will be an auction of former NASCAR racer Jeremy Mayfield’s estate and personal items. Up until now, you’d have had to have been on site to buy stuff. Now, through...
