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Wanna Build Your Own Carbon Fiber Roof? Watch These Guys Do It To A 1977 Toyota. You Can Do This Too!
It used to be that having fiberglass body parts on your car meant it was a real race car. It still does at some level, but if you want to be a real bad ass then you get stuff made from Carbon Fiber....
Gettin’ Sketchy: Watch Chip Foose Draw Up His Dream Version Of A 1963 Split Window Corvette
There are few American automotive designs that can hold a candle to the 1963 split window Corvette. The car was basically a revolution when it arrived in front of crowds as the replacement for the C1...
Random Car Review: The Ford Cortina Savage – When The V6 Is A Step Forward!
Ford special models always have an interesting name, if nothing else. Mach 1, King Cobra, Lightning. Even if the car is a pooch, the name will conjure up the image of badass, nasty power. Well, add...
Seats Of Power: These Are The Actual Seats From One Of The Original Pre-Production Corvette Show Cars
Long before the Corvette was put into production, GM did some extensive design studies with a pair of prototypes. These cars were traveled around the country and showed to crowds where their reaction...
All Four Turnin’: Outlaw Open 4×4 Trucks Pulling At Millers Tavern
Nothing against the built tractors, the radical Outlaws or even the wheel-standing 2wd classes, but for me, this is the pulling class that I came to watch. This is where pulling...
High Roller: The 1981 Rolls-Royce Corniche Coupé That Ran The Paris-Dakar
What made a desert run to the southern point of the Baja Peninsula work? It wasn’t sponsorships and a ton of advertising dollars, but a desire to push man and machine to the limit on...
Rough Start: 1976 Chevrolet Malibu Classic – Fresh From A Peel
So back in the day…wow, a decade ago now, odd to think about!…I was in a love-hate relationship with my 1973 Chevrolet Chevelle. The car itself was awesome to drive…the engine was a...
Close Enough: Finnegan Finally Gets The Full Force Of His Wicked Twin-Turbo Jet Boat!
Okay, by his own admission, he wasn’t a full 100% throttle on his passes. But anything over quarter-throttle in what basically is a wood plank with a twin-turbocharged Sonny Leonard mill...
NHRA Shop Talk: Why Stuff Blows Up – We Talk Carnage In Pro Stock, Pro Mod, and The Nitro Classes
Why does stuff blow up? That’s the topic of this week’s NHRA Shop Talk Live where Alan Reinhart and I talk drag racing and engine tech for your viewing pleasure. Using footage from the...
Surprise, MF! Rear-Engined Integra With A Turbocharged V6 In Texas!
Okay, let’s think about something for a moment: If you’re playing the game out in the wild, “going for broke” usually means you’re boosting an engine to the moon, or...
BangShift Question Of The Day: What Engine Swap Were You Too Afraid To Try When You Were A Kid?
Hey, would you look at that…the oldest picture I have of any of my cars! In this picture you see three from back in the day. Front and center are two of my Olds Cutlasses, the green 1978 (then...
From The Top: Driving A Low-Mile 1953 Corvette And Finding The Light Past “Corvette”
When the rumor became official, that the eighth generation of America’s sports car would become a mid-engined, rear-drive machine that looked an awful lot like a pasta rocket, the detractors...
BangShift Question Of The Day: How Far Have You Gone To Make Something Work?
I would like to say that I remain calm and collected at all times, that my temper is in check and that I can take a deep breath and walk away from a bitch of a job for a moment, to return with a...
The Shop Toy, Part 1: Dusting Off A 1989 Mustang To Put Back Onto The Street
The Introduction The story of this car, from my perspective, starts with meeting the woman who is now my wife. After meeting face to face at the 2010 SEMA show, the next proper step was for me to...