By Speedhunters

Car Culture At Large

Just imagine that you’re a racing driver. On the weekends, you drive some of the most top notch Porsches all over the world, and at all the hottest tracks in the world. You’ve driven the likes of Silverstone, Brands Hatch, Spa-Francorchamps, Nürburgring, Laguna Seca, Sebring, Fuji Speedway, and Monaco in your racing career. But after a weekend of living at one hundred miles an hour, what car do you go home to? You need a car that is luxurious, smooth, classy, and has a air of high speed elegance to it. This Audi S5 modified by GMG Racing is a perfect candidate. Continue reading at Speedhunters

By Linhbergh Nguyen

By Dan Strohl

Hemmings

I always take a couple thousand photos at Musclepalooza, partly because I have diarrhea of the shutter finger, but mostly because there’s so much happening at the event. You have the show field, the drag race action, the staging lanes, the F.A.S.T. guys, the awards ceremony for the show cars. You even have the go-karts for a little sideshow. And even with a couple thousand photos – I’ve culled out a dozen or so – you only get a small slice of the total action. Continue reading at Hemmings

By Rob Einaudi

Editor-in-Chief

So far we’ve only seen prototypes and test mules, but GM started building the first pre-production Volt yesterday. These early vehicles will be built by hand, and take about two weeks to finish. GM plans to build ten per week by July and will have 80 cars on the road by the fall. Full story at Wired

By Ben Schaffer

The Real JDM

This brings back memories. Granted, the picture itself isn’t that old. I snapped this at Tokyo Auto Salon 6 years ago, but this Veilside fortune demo car dates back long before that.

Why am I posting this? I guess I still have a sweet spot for the old school Veilside demo cars that inspired me pre-millenium. Back in the 1990s there was a certain feeling, magic if you will, when you first laid eyes on Veilside’s fortune demo car special of the year at Tokyo Auto Salon. Year after year Veilside was just KILLING IT back then, winning top honors at TAS every time with just wildness that at the time nobody had ever imagined. Times have changed a lot since then, but I still can remember and enjoy that feeling of being stunned by something so innovative and crazy. Continue reading after the jump.

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By Brian Lohnes

BangShift.com

It seems like most guys’ hot rods get put into one form or another and live there forever. You built a Pro Street car in the 1980s and it’s probably still sporting steamroller tires out back and that blower is still sticking through the hood.

Greg Frazier is not into that at all. He scored this cherry 1973 Camaro back in 1976 and his been driving the wheels off of it ever since. The car has seen duty on the drag strip, as an autocross competitor (ages before the words G-Machine were ever uttered), and, hell, the thing has even towed a water skiing boat to the lake!

It’s currently packed with a wicked 434ci small-block that runs 10.09 in the quarter without the aid of any type of power adder. If that didn’t get your attention, join the bridge club.

Go here to see the photo gallery with lots more photos and all the tech info, plus a bunch of vintage shots of this same car in the ’70s and ’80s. Watch the video below.

By Rob Einaudi

Editor-in-Chief

We’ve featured the photography of Patrick Ernzen in the blog several times over the last year or two. Well now Patrick has created a free, downloadable online magazine (PDF) which focuses primarily on automotive events and vehicles in the Phoenix valley. The first issue features all sorts of  amazing rides, including this beautiful ’68 Charger and the Vivid Racing GT-R. Go to mag.desert-motors.com and download your free copy now.

By Mike Musto

RideLust.com

Queens, New York: my home. Today I was tooling around in the old Danger Van and started to notice all the old iron that is still roaming the streets. I decided to take a ten block survey from my house, and was quite surprised by what I found. Granted, I know the models, but many of the years escape me. If you know the years of the following cars, chime in as I’m kinda curious. Lots more after the jump!

1. Buick – no idea what year or model

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By Rob Einaudi

Editor-in-Chief

These George Barris creations can be yours for a mere $400,000. Full story at Jalopnik

By Chris Bicknell

Bick66

With the front end restoration of my ’66 Impala in the final stages I decided it was time to have a little fun. Jen and I took the car to a nearby parking lot and let the new 383 Stroker lay some rubber on the asphalt.

I’ve had a ton of fun driving this car over the past few weeks but now it’s back to the garage to rebuild the rear end. Something broke in the rear differential and I ended up limping home at about 10 miles an hour. After work I’ll be tearing it apart to see just how bad it is. I’ve been kicking myself but I figure if the 44 year old rear end couldn’t handle a little abuse it was only a matter of time before I’d be left on the side of the road. At least it happened close to home and we were able to drive it back to the garage.

By Rob Einaudi

Editor-in-Chief

Some crazy movie-themed bikes at this show. Check out all the pics!