On This Day: The Horrific 1955 Le Mans Disaster
It happened in the blink of an eye. Mike Hawthorne’s Jaguar pulled out in front of Lance Macklin’s Austin-Healey, who swerved into the path of Pierre Bouillin (aka Levegh)....
Classic YouTube: The 1988 Ford Tempo and Mercury Topaz Test By MotorWeek
Ever hear someone talk about the visceral feel of a car? How a good car can embed parts of itself into your senses, where you can hear, feel, see and smell it? Yeah…meet my visceral car. I have...
The Unstoppable Monster: Check Out The Big N Sexy S10 Monster/Mega Truck In The Mud, The Swamp, and On The Water!
It seems like the more that the “Mega Truck” movement evolves the closer they become (in some sense) to the modern monster truck. What makes them cooler though is the fact that they are...
Barely Breathing: Uncle Tony Gets To Work Diagnosing The Trouble With The Turbocharged Slant Six Dart!
Uncle Tony has his hands on a customer’s 1972 Dodge Dart that has a draw-through turbocharger setup raided from a Pontiac 301 hooked to a 225 Slant Six. Interesting combination, to put it...
This 427ci FE Engine Has The Recipe For Fun: Torque and LOTS Of It!
While the sexy way to make it into a sports hall of fame is to have some incredibly prodigious numbers that are stacked up (sometimes) over a short period of time, the quieter way to make it in is to...
Money No Object: 1970 Dodge D300 – Working Never Looked So Good
I’ve always been drawn to the idea of a work truck. Blame my father for instilling that stereotype of “the truck is for work, the car is for everything else” into me when I was...
Send It With A Smile: Watch Ken Block Drift An 8,000lb Ford F-450 Dually Just Because He Can
There’s just something we love about a dually sliding sideways with all four rear tires smoking. Maybe it is the size, maybe it is the absurdity of it all, maybe it’s just the fact that...
If At First You Don’t Succeed Hammer Down Again: Ride Along In This Rock Bouncer And Claw Your Way To The Top!
Alex Sanders is the driver here and we’re all riding shotgun in his rig known as Ribcage. If you cannot figured out why it carries that name you’ve got some bigger problems in your life....
Morning Symphony: Going, Going, And Gone For This Fox-Body Mustang!
As work progresses on the Rough Start Fox, I keep looking for bits of inspiration to add into the program for our ’89 hatchback, the one that my mother in law called “a little...
Drag Race Coverage: Action Photography From The PDRA East Coast Nationals at GALOT!
(By David Whealon) – The 2020 PDRA drag racing season got started a few short weeks ago at the East Coast Nationals which were held on the grounds of GALOT Motorsports Park. The race, which...
The Tiny Details: The Skid Factory Sort Out The 20-Valve Head In Their MR2 Project!
For nine years, I carried the title of “Armament, Avionic and Electrical Technician”. Sounds pretty badass, right? Here’s how in-depth it truly was: I made sure that a Browning M2...
A New Coupe On The Way? Genesis May Have A Mustang Fighter In The Works
(By Tom Lohnes) – The Hyundai Genesis Coupe has become sort of a legend among the small KDM (Korean Domestic Market) community. With it’s very tunable 3.8-liter V6 and dual-clutch...
Classic YouTube: Leonard Vahsholtz’s Pikes Peak Dominance In 1993
Leonard Vahsholtz’s name is part of Pikes Peak hillclimb lore. For 32 years, he was in competition, with 142 hillclimbs, 100 wins, and a record that, thanks to a rule change, may never be...
