Result for: PRI Show
2010 Camaro to Pace the 2009 Daytona 500
It has been announced that the 2009 Chevy Camaro will pace the 2009 Daytona 500, breaking a two-year streak of Corvettes handling the official duties. It’s the first time since 1969 that a...
Vintage Race Car of the Week: The Penske/Donohue Lola T70 Mk3B
You know what they say about the really beautiful girls. They’re temperamental, flighty, unpredictable, and often times, more trouble than they’re worth, but damned it if we aren’t...
Video of the Week: Riverside Stock Cars, 1965
If you’ve ever wondered why California’s former Riverside Raceway is so revered, this video will give you at least the Stock Car portion of the answer (they also raced sports cars, Can...
Nitro Funny Car Association Forges Ahead
If you can get past the horrific news regarding the economy that seems to be coming faster and harder each day, there are some gems of goodness showing up in the racing world. The Nitro Funny Car...
Freiburger’s Pic of the Week: VW Bug Motorhome
The reality of a VW Bug motorhome itself is plain bliss, but when you add the homegrown art of the side, this is thing is pure genius. I spotted this Beetle camper during my honeymoon road trip in...
The F-Bomb Camaro in Fast and Furious 4
It’s been the worst kept secret that my F-Bomb Camaro is in the newest Fast and Furious movie, releasing April 4. But now that the second trailer is everywhere, clearly showing the car,...
Gearhead Destination: Eldora Speedway
We’re lucky in the US in the fact that we have literally hundreds of venues to go and watch our favorite gearhead activities. For many of us, that activity is racing in one of its myriad of...
Vintage Race Car of the Week: The Bug
When we heard of Dick Kraft’s passing we scrapped out other plans for this space for the week and decided to honor his memory with a look back at his rude, crude, evil, and nasty Bug which is,...
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...
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...
Vintage Race Car of the Week: The Hurst Hairy Olds
You’d probably be jailed for even suggesting this type of thing today. Two motors? Four wheel drive? Factory freakin’ parts? Yes, yes, and yes. The Hurst Hairy Olds, one of the most...
Let’s Play Name That Funny Car!
Andy, known as VTJUNK on our forums, sent us a link to this photo showing a bullet riddled, old, rusty truck in Saratoga Springs, New York. He also mentioned something about a Funny Car in his...
Friday’s Excuse Why I Went to Bed Early on New Year’s Eve
The blog entries have been behind schedule the past few days thanks to holidays and Freiburger’s flakiness. I thought I’d use all that as a reason to skip the traditional Friday Excuse to...
Gearhead Destination: The Pomona Swap Meet
Around SoCal we take the Pomona Swap Meet pretty much for granted, even if we do have to hear that it’s “The West Coast’s Largest” in every radio spot. Thing is, it’s...