Tag Archive: spotlight
Drag Gallery: Killer Action at the July Bounty Race at I-40 Dragway In Tennessee
(Words and photos by Tommy Lee Byrd) – Although plenty of people have street raced on Interstate 40, don’t get it confused with I-40 Dragway, an eighth-mile track in Crossville, Tennessee....
More Killer Photos From The Morgantown, PA Sonic Cruise — Gassers, Race Cars, Pro Street, Rods!
(Photos by Joe Grippo) – Yesterday we brought you the first of two galleries from the cool Sonic cruise night in Morgantown, Pennsylvania. We kind of marveled at the quality of cars that were...
Mini-Feature: An 1960s Ford “Uni-Body” Truck With Bad Ass Paint, Perfect Stance, and Ford Power!
(Photos by Charles Wickam) – From 1961-1963 Ford produced a truck that is commonly referred to by hot rodders today as a “uni-body” truck. While this isn’t entirely accurate...
Cruise Gallery: Morgantown, PA Sonic Cruise -Traditional Hot Rods To Pro Street
(Photos by Joe Grippo) – In terms of pound for pound coolness, the cruise night that Joe Grippo has filed a few galleries from that’s held in the lot of a Sonic restaurant situated in...
Donut Derelicts Car Cruise Gallery: Muscle Cars, Street Machines, Hot Rods, And BangShifters
Every Saturday morning around 9am 150-250 hot rods, muscle cars, street rods, trucks, and bike converge at the corner of Adams and Magnolia in Huntington Beach for a couple hours of hot rod heaven....
Ford Announces End Of All NHRA Professional Drag Racing Sponsorships At Close Of 2014 Season
Ford Racing has announced that the close of the 2014 season will mark the end of their sponsorship programs with NHRA racers like John Force (and his fleet of cars), Tim Wilkerson, Bob Tasca, and the...
Nostalgia Video: 1966 Lion’s Drag Racing Video By French Film Crew. Excellent Quality Footage.
Too bad we don’t have a clue as to what the hell they are saying, but we don’t really care. All we know is this is some of the best quality footage we’ve seen from Lion’s in...
Drag Gallery: The 2013 Beaver Springs Dragway Nostalgia Nationals – Bitchin’ Strip And Cars!
(Words and photos by Joe Grippo) – The Muscle Car Madness and York US30 Reunion was a primarily a static display of racing and muscle hardware and after two days of hanging around all those...
Caption This Photo: “Fire, Fire!” The Black Widow Dudes Know How To Put On A Show
Normally my line is “If you can’t win the dough, be the show.” But in this case, the super bitchin Black Widow Tune Exhaust wide body S10 driven by “Big” Bill Speed is...
Gallery: More Bitchin’ Photos From Muscle Car Madness And York US30 Drag Strip Reunion!
(Photos by Joe Grippo) – Yesterday we brought you the first of two galleries from the 12th Muscle Car Madness car show and York US30 Drag Strip Reunion as shot by Joe Grippo. Today we’re...
Gallery: The 12th Annual Muscle Car Madness at the York Reunion – Drag Cars, Muscle, and More!
(Words and photos by Joe Grippo) – York US 30 was shuttered way back in 1979 but the memories and history of the legendary Drag Strip continue to draw old racers and fans back to York, Pa once...
Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics – The Incredible Story Behind ChumpCar’s 36-hour Endurance Race!
(Words John Condren – Photos by Alicia Glubrecht) There’s always something cold and heartless about statistics. Raw numbers. Basic facts that rarely tell the whole story. For example,...
Drag Gallery: Rumble At The Grove 2013 – Doorslammers Only! Wheels Up Action!
(Words and photos by Joe Grippo) -The Rumble at the Grove means one thing…..Doorslammers! Not a dragster or altered in sight. The Northeast Outlaw Pro Mods came to Maple Grove with a variety of...
More Donut Derelicts Cruise In Photos Of Hot Rods, Customs, Street Machines, And More!
Donut Derelicts unofficially started in 1986 and has been a staple of Southern California Hot Rodding ever since. And the only thing that is keeping it from growing any larger is the lack of parking...