Friday Excuse to Go Home Early and Drink: GM Axing 1,700 Dealerships, and Fast
Apr 17, 2009Brian LohnesComments Off on Friday Excuse to Go Home Early and Drink: GM Axing 1,700 Dealerships, and Fast
As GM’s management thrashes to meet the June 1 restructuring deadline imposed by the U.S. government, word was leaked on Thursday that the company will be terminating the franchise agreements...
SEMA Says Lots of Pontiac Owners Race
Apr 17, 2009Brian LohnesComments Off on SEMA Says Lots of Pontiac Owners Race
SEMA recently polled owners of classic Pontiacs and discovered one in three of them were planning on racing at some point in the next year. This is in stark contrast to a recent survey of new Buick...
CraigsList Pick of the Week: Signed Earnhardt Sr. Fender
Apr 17, 2009Brian LohnesComments Off on CraigsList Pick of the Week: Signed Earnhardt Sr. Fender
This week’s pick comes from the great state of Texas and is a truly cool piece of memorabilia related to Dale Earnhardt. The man selling the piece worked for the SCCA at Laguna Seca Raceway as...
New Spec Motor for Top Fuel Cars?
Apr 17, 2009Brian LohnesComments Off on New Spec Motor for Top Fuel Cars?
A new Top Fuel engine rule? That’s what Jeff Burk is saying in a piece over at DragRacingOnline. Burk claims that the NHRA is working with a couple of people/teams to develop a spec engine that...
New Big-Block Chevy CNC Heads from RHS
Apr 16, 2009Brian LohnesComments Off on New Big-Block Chevy CNC Heads from RHS
Big-block Chevy engines are the weapon of choice for the majority of fast sportsman drag racers out there. Yes, all three makes are represented in some form, but walk though the staging lanes at an...
Celebrity Drivers at this Weekend’s Long Beach Grand Prix
Apr 16, 2009Brian LohnesComments Off on Celebrity Drivers at this Weekend’s Long Beach Grand Prix
It’s that yearly ritual that lets us know Spring has arrived, the Long Beach Grand Prix. It’s also the same weekend that the Toyota Pro/Celebrity race takes place. This event has been...
Photo Gallery: 31 Cool Buicks
Apr 16, 2009Chad ReynoldsComments Off on Photo Gallery: 31 Cool Buicks
We’ve been collecting up photo galleries of all sorts of car that we see during our car-guy travels, and this time it’s a gallery of 31 Buick photos. We would have liked to have more, but...
Cool Old Press Photos: 1957 Buick Century
Apr 16, 2009Brian LohnesComments Off on Cool Old Press Photos: 1957 Buick Century
When we hear the words Buick Century we think, 84 year-old woman. They weren’t always Q-tip cars, though. In fact, the Century was a pretty hot number back in the day and it was drop-dead...
Cyclekarts: We Want One!
Apr 16, 2009Brian LohnesComments Off on Cyclekarts: We Want One!
BangShift.com forum member Mr4Speed sent us along a link to this website about cyclekarts. What the hell is a cyclekart, you ask? Picture a tiny version of a 1920s race car and you’re getting...
Gearhead Destination: Woodward Dream Cruise
Apr 16, 2009Brian LohnesComments Off on Gearhead Destination: Woodward Dream Cruise
With all the junk going on with the domestic car makers, Detroit needs a lift. The good news is that they’ll get a good one on August 15th, 2009, in the form of the 15th Annual Woodward Dream...
Video of the Week: How Not to Pull Out a Stuck Jeep
Apr 16, 2009Brian LohnesComments Off on Video of the Week: How Not to Pull Out a Stuck Jeep
With the news that our pals at StreetFire and CarDomain recently joined forces, we realized that we were relying way to heavily on YouTube for our Video of the Week selections. After all, if...
Yet Another Fast and Furious F-Bomb Camaro Clone on eBay
Apr 16, 2009Brian LohnesComments Off on Yet Another Fast and Furious F-Bomb Camaro Clone on eBay
All of a sudden, clones of Freiburger’s F-Bomb Camaro are showing up everywhere like they are the next Eleanor or something. Earlier this week one of the former movie cars from Fast and Furious...
Ford C6 Trans Brake from TCI
Apr 15, 2009Brian LohnesComments Off on Ford C6 Trans Brake from TCI
We know lots of Ford racers running C6 transmissions in their bracket bombers and hot street cars. TCI has developed a new trans-brake setup to allow those racers to be more consistent at the tree...
Ecoboost to be used on 90 Percent of Fords by 2013
Apr 15, 2009Brian LohnesComments Off on Ecoboost to be used on 90 Percent of Fords by 2013
Ford’s twin-turbo Ecoboost system will be used on 90 percent of the company’s engines by the year 2013, claims Ford in a slightly aged story in the Detroit Free Press newspaper. The story...












