Tag Archive: spotlight
Project Buford T Justice Update: Drag Strip Thrash Squashed By Ma Nature – We Learn Stuff – Plan B!
We had the parts, the car, the tools, and the rough plan. Mother Nature had the upper hand. A couple of Sundays back we left well before daylight broke with Buford T Justice on the trailer, heading...
Video: Watch Jack Beckman’s Nuclear Funny Car Explosion From the NHRA Finals in Pomona!
Fast Jack Beckman is one of the best funny car drivers in the business and his skills were on full display at the 2012 NHRA Finals in Pomona on Thursday as he suffered a nuclear level explosion on...
The 2012 Optima Street Car Invitational – Photos From the Road Course, Autocross and More!
(Photos courtesy of Optima Batteries) – Mark Stielow was the winner of the 2012 Optima Ultimate Street Car Invitational last weekend, wading through the diverse and awesome field of cars and...
SEMA 2012 Gallery: Cool Trucks, Parts, Cars, and Some Genuine Weirdo Stuff From Friday At SEMA 2012
Chad and I literally walked the SEMA show floor until I had to peel off and catch a plane back home to the East Coast. Friday is always an interesting day at the show as people are generally gassed...
SEMA 2012 Featurette: Don “The Snake” Prudhomme’s 1970 Hot Wheels ‘Cuda Funny Car
Of all the cars and trucks that filled the nearly one million square foot Las Vegas Convention Center last week during SEMA, the most historically significant race cars is this one. Don...
SEMA 2012: One Hundred More Photos of Cars and Trucks You Haven’t Seen Yet!
The hits just keep on coming from the 2012 SEMA show. Outside of the massive Las Vegas Convention Center are parked hundreds of great cars, trucks, motorcycles, kustoms, monster trucks, race cars,...
SEMA 2012 Featurette: Mark Stielow’s 1967 Camaro “Mayhem” – Greatest Pro Touring Car Ever?
Mark Stielow’s name has been and will forever be connected to Camaros and for good reason. His awesome string of 1967 and 1969 Chevys have helped to both birth and revolutionize the Pro Touring...
SEMA 2012 Gallery: Friday Morning Gallery of Cars, Trucks, and Killer Shop Equipment From SEMA 2012
That’s right kids, we’re still blasting photos and pounding the pavement for news and information here at SEMA 2012. We’ll be walking the floors and gathering even more cool stuff...
SEMA Show 2012 Featurette: The Thunder Taker 1960 Cadillac Custom Hearse by Bryan Fuller Hot Rods
It is 8,000lbs of subtle metal work, flawless paint, a passenger compartment that’ll seat a football team with room to set up a train set inside, one of the largest sun roofs installed on any...
SEMA 2012 Coverage: Modern and Classic Mopar Muscle In Mopar Alley and On The SEMA Show Floor
The Big Three do a pretty great job of creating a presence at SEMA and Mopar is no slouch. Once again Chrysler’s performance division has sent a fleet of bitchin’ iron along with a fleet...
SEMA 2012 Coverage: Hot Cars, Trucks, Muscle, Hot Rods, and Parts From Wednesday At SEMA 2012
As Chad and I pounded the floor of the floor at SEMA 2012 on Wednesday we blasted photos of all the cool stuff we had not seen or showed you yet. Amazingly, there is a LOT more stuff that we have not...
SEMA 2012 Coverage: Optima Ultimate Street Car Invitational Competitor Gallery
One of the many reasons that the 2012 SEMA shows rules the school is because it serves as the staging ground for the annual Optima Street Car Invitational event which is held in Pahrump, Nevada. This...
Sad News: John Fitch, American Road Racing Legend, Inventor, and Race Track Designer Has Died At 95
John Fitch, the racer who cheated death at the 1955 24 Hours of LeMans, competed and lived through the most dangerous era of Grand Prix racing the world has ever known, was a P51 Mustang pilot with a...
