Watch Shirley Muldowney Appear On The Tonight Show With Johnny Carson In 1986 – They Race!
I have had the good fortune to spend some quality time with Shirley Muldowney over the last few years on the NHRA tour. She is an awesome lady with stories for days and obviously the credentials to...
“A Smiling, Mid-Engined Box Of French Hate”: Davide Cironi Takes On The Renault 5 Turbo 2
The mass majority of the Renault Le Cars imported to the United States have either been shredded and reinvented as a legitimate toy car or have rotted back to the soil from where they came. Once they...
Cancer-Free: Making The Last Rust Repair On The Valiant Wagon
Getting every last scale of iron oxide out of a car that had it by the ton must be as satisfying as the moment the priest exorcises the demon from the afflicted. Few dare attempt and fewer still do a...
See And Hear The Story Of “Muscle Two”, Martin Sanchez’s Rescued Christine Fury
Halloween…one of my favorite times of the year, where things seem a little bit unsettled, and demons come back to haunt those who deserve the retribution. As a car guy, the one car that always...
Watching Russian People Ferried Across A River In The Buckets Of Two Backhoes Is Pretty Awesome
These are a pair of excavators being expertly operated in order to ferry a group of Russian people across a raging river. There was apparently a problem with the bridge, like it didn’t exist...
SEMA360 Preview: Chevrolet’s 1977 K5 Blazer-E With The Electric Connect And Cruise Crate Package
On the surface, nothing seems amiss…other than it’s the cleanest 1977 Chevrolet Blazer to exist on planet Earth since about the time Brian was a toddler and my dad was getting some...
Awesome Video: Screaming Vintage Racers at Australia’s Bathurst Raceway
Vintage racing is one of our favorite things. Normally we highlight videos from the good ol’ USA but we were tipped off to a great one by Bangshifter Chris Crowley that shows some totally...
The Last Blast: This Last Load Of No Mercy 11 Photos Features The Pits! Engines, Thrash, More!
(Photos by Wes Allison) – If there is one thing that happens more than anything else at Lights Out, Sweet 16, and No Mercy, it is wrenching. These eighth-mile bombs are in need of constant care...
The Bar Keeps Rising: McLaren Brings New Sports Series Model With Turbo V6 and Electric Motors
(By Tom Lohnes) – Mclaren is coming in with another hot one: a new sports series model powered by a V6 and electric motors. The Mclaren sports series has only had 4 models (570S, 570GT, 600LT,...
The Concepts Of 1989: Check Out The Ford Splash and the Pontiac Stinger – What Was Their Influence?
It’s super cool to look back at concept cars from decades past. It gives us a window, typically, into the styling direction of a particular brand or even lets us see some stuff that the...
Totally Mental: Guy Runs 8s In Australia While Column Shifting, In A Stock Seat, With No Bar, and Stock Belts
This is one of those interesting situations where we LOVE the car. Like absolutely worship the car but it does something to us when we see a dude running 8s (granted, in Australia) with a stock seat,...
Classic YouTube: Daigo Saito Earning His Legendary Drifter Reputation!
By nature, racing and other automotive sports are all about showing off, and few disciplines are more associated with that kind of behavior than drifting. Unlike racing, which has performance and...
Halloween Hellride: T-Bird’s Final Ride From “The Crow”
1994’s “The Crow” might have the most connections to Halloween right after “Christine”. Take your pick: the dark storyline, the death of Eric Draven and his girlfriend...
Riding The Washington State Ferries During A Windstorm Wasn’t A Good Idea…
For the most part, riding the Washington State Ferry service is a pleasant affair. You drive onto one end of the ferry, let the workers chock your car, then you head up into the passenger cabin for a...
