Vintage Race Car of the Week: The Scarab Mk1 Chevrolet
This week’s Vintage Racer is one that was born in the late 1950s road racing renaissance here in the good ol’ USA. As more and more people imported Eurpean race cars to compete on courses...
2009 MSD Car Show and Employee Appreciation Day Coming May 1
We got a note from our buddy Todd Ryden over at MSD Ignition and he told us about the employee appreciation day and car show that’s going down on May first. If you live in the El Paso, Texas,...
Book Review: The History of NHRA Pro Stock
NHRA Publications is a relatively new deal for the Glendora, Califorinia-based sanctioning body, and this book, The History of NHRA Pro Stock, is its second published effort. If you are a fan of the...
What if General Motors Has to Change Its Name?
What if GM is legally required through its restructuring to change its name? That’s the query behind a new poll at the Automotive News web site. The names offered for selection are GM Inc.,...
Edelbrock’s New Entry Level E-Street Aluminum Heads
Edelbrock just posted a page on its site about the new, entry-level E-Street line of aluminum cylinder heads being offered for small-block Chevy and Ford applications. They sell for under $1,000 a...
The Lohnes Wreck Files: Stop!
It turns out that Honda Civics skip like small stones when driven into a sand trap at their terminal velocity. This little tidbit was discovered on a Wednesday “street night” at New...
Castroneves Acquitted of Tax Evasion
Sure it happened at the end of last week, and that’s like 23 years in blog time, but we wanted to give you some closure on the saga of Helio Castroneves and his tax evasion trial. It took the...
Barnstormin’: The Last Days of Chrysler
Is Chrysler done? That’s a question which has been posed before, several times actually. Chrysler has nearly bought the farm a couple times now, coming the closest to collapse in the early...
eBay Pick of the Week: Annoying Guy With Kick-Ass Firebird
Some people simply do not know the definition of “soft sell.” The dude selling this awesome 1971 Firebird Formula 455 is one of them. The text in the ad is not all that bad, but the...
Monday Time Killer: Remote Control Drag Racing
Down in the dumps that you don’t have the cashola to build that gnarly drag race machine you’ve always dreamed about? Think you’re going to be stuck running your mom’s minivan...
610 HP LS Crate Engines from Wegner Motorsports
This new series of crate engines from Wegner Motorsports are pretty stout. Available in a bunch of different trim levels from short-block all the way to turnkey motors, there’s something in...
Rig and El Camino Stolen from Spectre Performance has been Recovered!
On the 13th we reported that a truck and trailer and a radical El Camino had been ripped off from Spectre Performance. We just got word that the stuff has been found! Here’s the email text from...
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
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...
