Cool Old Press Photos: 1957 Ramblers
Outside of Volvos built during the 1980s, have there been any more square-ish looking cars ever built that the Ramblers of the late 1950s? We’re not saying that in a bad way, but just as a...
Lifelong Pontiac Dealers Bracing for Uncertain Future
We were sent a link to an interesting New York Times story about two lifelong Pontiac dealers and their thoughts on the state of the automotive business and what will become of their family...
Gearhead Destination: Bob’s Big Boy in Burbank, California
The SoCal guys are rolling their eyes, but face it boys, this place and the weekly Friday cruise night it holds are something special. It’s a gathering spot for great cars, media types,...
Video of the Week: The Corsica Q-Ship
Most call cars like this lowly looking Chevy Corsica a sleeper. We like the older school Q-Ship terminology. Q-Ships were essentially decoy ships used by the British and US Navies during WWI and...
Carnage of the Week: Nastiest Engine Explosion Video Ever
This new addition to our regular weekly blog items will highlight, as its title denotes, stuff going horribly wrong. Wrecks, explosions, rods exiting the block, blowers banging, you name it, it will...
Lohnes’ Pic of the Week: Blown V8 Drag Bike, With a Powerglide!
I first ran across Mike Charlton and his insane creation, Quasi-Moto, at the 2002 Gasser Reunion at Thompson Drag Raceway in Thompson, Ohio. It’s quite obviously not a typical motorcycle. In...
Hajek Motorsports Shooting for Mustang Closed-Course Speed Record
Fresh from yesterday’s news item about a Hajek Motorsports Cobra Jet Mustang drag car, we got news that Brent Hajek and his band of cronies aim to set the “closed course speed record for...
Site of the Week: Roy Brizio Street Rods
Roy Brizio has been building killer, high-end hot rods for decades. He regularly gets contracted by celebrities of all genres to construct their dream hot rods. Hell, Jeff Beck has even written music...
SEMA Not Happy with Recent Progress of Cash For Clunkers
As it seems we are creeping toward a national “cash for clunkers” program here, SEMA has ramped up its efforts to work the legislation into something that makes a lick of sense and may...
New Mustang Cobra Jet Flies With AOD Trans
We got dropped a note from the boys at FB Performance Transmissions letting us know that Brent Hajek decided to bolt in one of their Ford AO3 Stage-2 Transmissions in place of the venerable C-4 that...
Cole Coonce Talks About His New Book, Live Online Tonight
Fans of drag racing journo Cole Coonce know his book, Infinity Over Zero, as a tribute to land speed racing, but now he has a new project in print called Top Fuel Wormhole: The Cole Coonce Drag Strip...
Champion Speed Shop Dragster Hauls the Mail at Dragfest
The Rod and Kulture Dragfest, held last weekend at Famoso Raceway in Bakersfield, California, combined a hot rod event with some hot match races on the dragstrip. It sounds like a good time was had...
Vintage Race Car of the Week: Ford’s Lotus Cortina
Here in the USA, the factory race cars that got the big headlines back in the 1960s were mostly the drag-package cars. Relatively stripped down and bolstered with equipment to aid in straight-line...
Video: A Brilliant Take on Domestic vs Import Buying Habits
This one comes to us from Rob over at CarDomain. He found and posted this video that’s a takeoff on the classic 1980s “I learned it from you dad!” anti-drug commercial. This is just...
