Former NASCAR Racer Busted for Making Moonshine
Nope, this is not a repeat of some headline from the ’40s or ’50s. This is a headline from 3/4/2009. The racer Carl Dean Combs, who made 24 Winston Cup starts from 1981-1984, got busted...
BangShift Approved! The MotorHead Grill
If we aren’t racing or wrenching, we’re telling lies, drinking beer and eating barbecue. So what could possibly be better for preparing our bench racing feast than the MotorHead Grill...
It’s Time for the 2009 March Meet
Bakersfield, California, is known for being hot, and this weekend will be no exception as the 2009 March Meet rolls into town. With nitro-burning front-engine dragsters, Funny Cars, Fuel Altereds,...
Site of the Week: Richard Carpenter’s Car Collection
If you are a closet Carpenters fan, we’ve come up with an excuse for checking them out on the web that won’t get you in trouble with your car buddies. It turns out Richard Carpenter is a...
Bathtub Car is not Dead, Should Be
We spotted the infamous Bathtub car of Bob Reisner this summer and it’s looking like, well, that would be too easy. We don’t get the show rod scene and frankly we’re happy that...
Harold Martin Unveils Bizzaro Pro Mod
Harold Martin is a well known Pro Modified racer. He’s been the champion of nitrous and electronic fuel injection for many years and is widely recognized as one of the smartest racers in the...
Vintage Race Car of the Week: Dan Gurney’s AAR Formula 1 Eagle
With the announcement of a new American Formula 1 team, U.S. F1, comes talk of American racers in Formula 1 events of the past. And while most people will talk about Mario Andretti and Phil...
Cancel Your Vacation: Abu Dhabi F1 Theme Park on Hold
So we guess it’s not a good time to be building half-billion-dollar theme parks these days anywhere on Earth, even in the formerly cash rich Middle East. We’re not exactly surprised to...
Book Review: Super Stock: Drag Racing the Family Sedan
We thought of Super Stock: Drag Racing the Family Sedan, by Larry Davis, when we heard the news of the John Calvert driving a new Cobra Jet Mustang to the win Stock Eliminator at the 2009 NHRA...
The Lohnes Wreck Files: Norwegian Drag Racers and Rain Don’t Mix
This one qualified as an actual nightmare unfolding right before my very eyes. It was one of those nights at the drag strip that just wasn’t going all that great from the git-go and this...
Toyo Introduces New Drag Radials
Hot off the presses is news that Toyo Tires is making drag radials. The new Proxes TQ is a DOT-approved drag radial aimed at the muscle car and street machine market. With Toyo’s history of...
Barnstormin’: Were the Big Three Really That Good?
While the current crop of auto executives are getting flayed at every turn, us “car guys” look back lovingly at the famous leaders and executives from the past. The problem of course is...
eBay Pick Counter-Attack: 4.3-Mile IROC Camaro!
While Chad is betting Daphne’s jewelry and his kid’s piggy bank account for that hill-climbing Mopar, I’m going the classy route and throwing my bank at an IROC. But it’s an...
eBay Pick of the Week: Pikes Peak Hemi Cuda
Someday I’d love to be able to run the Pikes Peak hillclimb, ass-out in an old musclecar like they did in the old days. Don’t believe they ran stuff like Hemi Cudas up that cliffhanging...
