Barnstormin’: Proud to be a Cockroach
On Sunday I happened to find myself on the phone with a drag racing friend. He’s a fairly big wheel racer, and if you watch the NHRA on ESPN you’d be familiar with him. We were discussing...
eBay Pick of the Week: Cool Speed T-Shirts
This week’s pick is not for a specific auction, but for an eBay Store, the one called Old Speed Stuff. The shop carries cool T-shirts with logos and designs of some pretty cool stuff, like the...
Barack Obama’s Hemi Car For Sale
President-Elect Obama drove a Hemi car. Sorry, but it was an ’05 Chrysler 300C. The good news is that you can buy it today for the low, low price of one million dollars, which seems fair since...
NASCAR Teams are Right-Sizing
Bob Nardelli keeps using that term, “right sizing,” as a masking agent for layoffs and job losses at Chrysler. We hate it because it sanitizes the truth, which we as a society apparently...
Monday Time Killer: Hand-Eye Coordination test
This week’s time killer has virtually nothing to do with cars at all, but somehow it’s got to relate to your race-drivers’ lightning reflexes and we expect it will bring out the...
News from the Detroit Auto Show via CarDomain.com
It’s really the North American International Auto Show, but everyone whose not a hipster just calls it the Detroit Auto Show. We’ve been there, and it’s cold. Too cold, in fact, for...
NASA to Team With HANS to Protect Astronauts
Proving once again that the world of motorsports is an environment where new technology is born and tested each day, NASA (like, the space-walk people) are getting together with the folks at HANS to...
Goodguys’ Fuel Altered Match-Race Series
The Goodguys Vintage Drag Racing Series came out with an announcement the other day informing the world that it will host a match-race series between Rich Guasco’s “Pure Hell” AA/FA...
2009 Engine Masters Challenge Rules Announced
The 2009 Popular Hot Rodding Engine Masters Challenge Rules have just been posted at the magazine’s web site. Changes for this year include the first-ever addition of EFI as well as unlimited...
Friday Excuse to Go Home Early and Drink: A Federal Push for Old-Car Scrappage
Talk about the thing that wouldn’t die. After recently beating down one effort to push a government “Cash for Clunkers” program, SEMA is now up against it again fighting a program...
Motorized Freak of the Week: Morgan Three-Wheelers
We bagged on the Frenchies last week with their crazy Helicron propeller-mobile, but the Brits have had a couple of freaks, too. Take the Morgan three-wheelers for example. These little weirdos were...
Craigslist Pick of the Week: $4,000 Vintage Wheels!
Apparently this seller missed the memo about the tanking economy and shrinking consumer spending. But, joking aside, these wheels are probably worth something near what he’s asking....
VP Cuts the Price of Nitro!
Make no mistake about it, nitromethane is still stupid expensive, but it is now far less so after the announcement that VP Racing Fuels, the major supplier of nitro to the NHRA, has brought the price...
Gearhead Destination: The Tail of the Dragon
Nope, we don’t play weird sorcery games with our pals. The Tail of the Dragon is a road, and a serious one at that. The 11-mile stretch of US highway 129 that runs from Deals Gap, North...
