By Jen Dunnaway

Editor

Fast & Furious is opening this week–woohoo, you heard it here first!–and to help whip moviegoers into a car-crazy frenzy, Screen Junkies has put together this encyclopedic post covering (in detail) what they consider to be the top 40 movie cars of all time. Expect the usual suspects: Christine, Bullitt’s Mustang, and Doc Brown’s DeLorean all made the top ten. But there’s also a few rides that you probably haven’t thought about in awhile. Cameron’s dad’s ’61 Ferrari 250 GT, which met such a violent and terrible end (beaten up by an angst-ridden rich kid, then run through a plate glass window into a ravine? Ugh). Louise’s ’66 T-Bird convertible: hells yeah, “the best car for an Arkansas waitress and housewife to conspicuously flee the authorities after shooting a rapist.” And does anyone remember this crazy-painted bulletnose Stude from The Muppet Movie? Check out the full article here, and let us know if any of your faves didn’t make the list.

By Brian Lohnes

BangShift.com

Well that didn’t take long. 2009 Cobra Jet Mustang number 26 is up for sale on eBay for a starting bid of $100,000. The car is being sold by an Ohio exotic car dealer and we’re keenly interested to see where this auction ends up. Hopefully it goes to someone who will actually race it instead of putting it in a hermetically sealed bubble somewhere.

These cars are runners, as John Calvert proved when he won Stock Eliminator at the 2009 NHRA Winternationals. To our knowledge this is the first one of the cars to hit the public auction block, unless you count the prototype sold at Barrett-Jackson.

Hardcore Ford fanatics have to be monitoring this auction with bated breath. We have few doubts that the car will be sold. The only question is how much?

By Jen Dunnaway

Editor

Juan has a ton of photos of his Sentra SE-R parked in front of grafitti all over Miami–and that alone makes his ride page worth checking out. But the real gem of the page, I thought, was this shot his finished valve cover, done up with a Rising Sun in zombie colors. Nice work!

By Rob Einaudi

Editor-in-Chief

Is it a faux pas to photograph a convertible with the windows rolled up? Is that yellow stuff all over the interior pollen? And where is the shift knob? 1991 Saab Turbo convertible on Craigslist

By Jen Dunnaway

Editor

Two THOUSAND dollars? Splutter! I could buy a whole car for that. The culprit, as Edmunds Inside Line discovered when they took their GT-R test car in for its routine service, turns out to be obscenely overpriced GT-R-specific ATF and differential fluid. How about $114 a quart for that tranny juice? And the beast takes 8 quarts. Talk about snake oil–and I thought that splurging for a few bucks worth of Water Wetter or octane boost was a frivolous indulgence. So much for our bargain supercar! How about this: first CarDomain member willing to void the warranty by running regular house-brand transmission fluid in their new GT-R, we’ll send you a case of the stuff for free.

By Rob Einaudi

Editor-in-Chief

We were talking about this today in the office. How many cars do you need to own for it to be considered a collection? And does a collection need to have a theme? After a fair amount of deliberation, we decided that three vehicles could be considered a collection, provided they are thematically unified. In other words, my Volvo, Subaru and Mopar cannot be considered a collection. However, Jen’s 80s orphans (pictured below, minus the Eagle) can be considered a collection. And we decided that if you have six or more cars, the need for a single unifying theme becomes less stringent. So what do you think? Are we onto something here or are we on glue?

By David Wallens

Grassroots Motorsports

Those of us raised on Hondas, Subarus and Mustangs may not remember a time when buying a sporty car meant looking toward England. Go back to the ’50s, ’60s and ’70s, and MG, Triumph and Austin-Healey sent a huge number of fun, inexpensive sports cars our way.

While you could say the run pretty much ended around 1980, there’s still a ton of these cars on the road. This weekend I’ll be at the British Motor Trade Conference meeting with shop owners, parts manufacturers and others who still cater to this market. And if the brands I mentioned sound totally foreign to you, one day you need to sample an MGA. As a Miata owner, I concede that it might be the best roadster ever.

By Ryan Porter

IN-N-OUT Editor

Last week I shared Vincent’s Porsche Turbo getting the 997.2 LED taillight conversion and the number one response was to fix the gap in the bumper.  Look at this car–do you really think he wasn’t all in on this thing? Check out the bodywork that will help finish off the sick taillight conversion.

Continue reading "iForged Turbo LED Conversion Part II" »

By Chris Bicknell

Bick66

Well, due to its impracticalities I’m sure you won’t be seeing one of these on the showroom floor any time soon–nor will it be the next cure-all solution to the energy crisis. However, I was very interested to see what this group of British builders is doing in their attempt to break the steam-car speed record. The current “official” steam-powered speed record was set in 1906 by Fred Marriott who achieved a top speed of 127.659 MPH, and for a brief few years this was the overall world speed record until it was broken by a gas-powered Benz in 1910. This 25 ft steam-powered car generates a healthy 360 horsepower but literally guzzles a ton of water every 20 minutes. Although last week’s Thorney Island test was unsuccessful due to an electrical malfunction, the British team plans to bring their steam-car stateside this August where they will attempt to smash the century-old record with expected speeds of over 170 MPH.

More pictures after the jump.

Continue reading "Steam Power!" »

By Rob Einaudi

Editor-in-Chief

Or would that be man pretends to hold back Lamborghini doing a brake stand with the brake light fuse pulled?