By Jen Dunnaway

Editor

Catriona and Mario Colalillo have spent the last six years building this insane Cadillac show car, equipped with a 454 big block and 9 inch rear end along with a custom-fabbed chassis and airbagged suspension. Mario figures that about $200,000 has gone into paint alone, and here’s one possible reason why: the couple somehow managed to get Gene Winfield to fly out to Australia to spray it. Gene friggin’ Winfield–look, there he is! The car is currently en route by boat from Australia to California, where it’s set to appear at Long Beach Motorama next month, then the SEMA Show at the beginning of November. I can’t wait to get a close-up look at this spectacular ride. More pics below the jump–don’t miss the wild custom interior with bonus tailfin–from the Macarthur Chronicle, via BornRich.

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By Jen Dunnaway

Editor

Thanks to BF Goodrich, we’re going to be sending a CarDomain member to Skip Barber Racing School at Sebring for a 3-day course. It might as well be you, right? All you have to do to enter is be logged in on CarDomain, head over to our BF Goodrich fan page, enter your info including birthdate, and become a fan. Good luck!

By Jen Dunnaway

Editor

Just when you think there couldn’t be a sillier stick-on accessory than those fake chrome Buick portholes, somebody comes up with this. I couldn’t even bring myself to file it under Cute Product Alert! Check out CarLashes’ Facebook page for an unbelievable array of vehicles feminized with these huge plastic falsies. Unbelievable.

By Michael Berenis

Tampa Sports Car Examiner

Thanks to all-wheel drive coupled to a 5.3 liter turbocharged V8 and some good driving, a Chevrolet Express van smoked a Corvette ZR1 on the quarter mile. I find it interesting that a 7,000 pound van modified with just a turbo and Z06 cam could actually beat the mighty ZR1. Something went wrong on the launch, maybe? Read more about the absurd race at Tampa Sports Car Examiner.

By Karan Singh

StreetFire.net

Like many of you, we love the good ol’ days of automotive advertising. Here’s a blast from the late ’80s featuring the Nissan 240SX. Check out the early drifting!

1989 Nissan 240SX TV Commercial

By Rob Einaudi

Editor-in-Chief

Today’s pic is from Carlos’s Hyundai Genesis Coupe ride page!

By Speedhunters

Car Culture At Large

This A4 wagon belongs to Brian, he is one of the guys who runs Rotiform. When you run a business that sells wheels you better have a nice set yourself. So Brian opted for the NUE wheels in 20″x10 with a 3″step lip all round. To make them even more special he coated them in a candy teal finish with polished lips.

By Jeroen Willemsen

By Brian Lohnes

BangShift.com

Chrysler may not have been the sales leader of the muscle car era, but they were certainly the fun leader. We found a great video showing a compilation of Roadrunner ads from 1968-what looks to be 1971. There’s some good Coyote fail footage here to giggle at. Acme products screwed him again.

The world is far too serious a place for any company to have the gusto to run ads campaigns like this anymore, which sucks. We wish we lived during an era that an ad man could belt down a couple martinis on an empty stomach, walk into a board room and pitch the idea of selling cars with cartoon characters.

You’d be jailed for doing that today!

By Rob Krider

Racerboy

The National Auto Sport Association (NASA) held Round 4 of its Western Endurace Racing Championship (WERC) at Thunderhill Raceway in Northern California. Hoods were blown off, champagne was sprayed and you can see the podium results (and carnage) at Jalopnik. Photography by Head-On Photos.

By Jen Dunnaway

Editor

Whoa: I think that if this was where you were headed for classes this fall, it’d take most of the bleh out of “back to school.” Take a look!