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June 9, 2009
Vanity Plate
Atomicalex
Does your fast talk to you? This GTI’s owner is listening to his, and the car is apparently too fast.
June 8, 2009
Tony Stewart Seals The Deal at Pocono
By Jen Dunnaway
Editor
I love Pocono because it’s the site of the first NASCAR event I ever watched in person. But on Sunday, there was a lot less rain than I remembered, and the Sprint Cup race at the huge sweeping triangle in the Pennsylvania mountains did not disappoint. Congrats to Tony Stewart on his first Sprint Cup win as owner/driver of his No. 14 Chevrolet! Check out pics from Pocono, as well as from Saturday’s Nationwide race at Nashville, below the jump.
All photos courtesy of Getty Images.
Bad Shift Makes Acura Endo!
By John Coyle
Deputy Editor
Everybody knows missing a shift can have disastrous consequences, but this has to be one of the worst instances I’ve seen. Apparently the dude behind the wheel was going for third, but wound up slamming the gearbox into first. Yikes. Obviously, the Acura wasn’t very happy about that, and pulled a pretty burly endo before coasting to a stop. You can’t really hear too much on the video, but I can only imagine what it sounded like inside the car as the tranny lunched itself. There’s some adult language at the end of this clip, so if you’ve got sensitive ears you might want to keep volume down.
FD Round 3 Results
By Ryan Porter
IN-N-OUT Editor
I was down in Los Angeles this weekend while Formula D was across the country in New Jersey, but I must say the Formula D crew did an amazing job keeping people like me updated via twitter.
Congrats to the Round 3 Winners!
Round 3: The Gauntlet Event Results
1. McNamara, Darren Falken / Sears Auto Center Saturn Sky
2. Tuerck, Ryan Gardella Racing / Mobil 1Pontiac Solstice
3. Forsberg, Chris NOS Energy Drink / Maxxis Nissan 350Z
GM to Halt Medium Duty Truck Production
By Jim Brennan
UDMan
General Motors Corp, which filed for bankruptcy protection a week ago, said on Monday that it would cease production of medium-duty trucks by July 31 after attempts to sell the operation failed. “After four years of working with multiple potential buyers, General Motors has decided to wind down its medium-duty truck operations,” the automaker said in a statement.
GM plans to cease production of Chevrolet Kodiak and GMC Topkick medium-duty trucks by July 31. The automaker sold about 20,000 of the vehicles last year, down from roughly 30,000 in 2007, as the U.S. economy sank into a deep recession. More at Reuters.
7,000 Mile Dodge Daytona Road Trip
By Rob Einaudi
Editor-in-Chief
Now here’s something you don’t see every day: a Dodge Daytona pulling a trailer. Apparently they’d driven from Palm Beach, California to Florida to deliver a Chrysler Imperial, then headed back across the country to make the Seattle Mopars Unlimited Spring Roundup on Sunday. Take that, trailer queens! More pics after the jump, and I’ll have all the pics from the show up soon.
Power Tour Day Two: Gettin' Rollin'
By Chris Allen
Motorfanatics
We woke up today to even more rain. Great. Cold and rainy, we made our way to Alliant Energy Center and as I mentioned yesterday, the weather did not deter ANYONE from making it out. Once the rain let up, we walked around and checked out some of the other participants including a gorgeous Buick Riviera, a dialed in Cuda, and ANOTHER Pacer. That makes three friggen Pacer’s on the Power Tour…but ours became the first to drag race today!
Peace and Quiet: New DP Installed
Atomicalex
My ears were at the end of their limits when Steve’s European Auto called up to tell me that my new Techtonics TuningDP had finally came in. Installation ended up being pretty difficult due to some rusty nuts and bolts – between a torch and an air chisel, the captured nuts on the cat flange are no longer captured. The TT piece is nice, shiny stainless and the welds are pretty sharp. I snapped a pic of the old piece after they wrestled it out- it took the rearward sleeve clamp out in the process. This is one of those jobs I had no problem paying someone else to do! There isn’t much change over stock due to keeping the stock main exhaust, but I can hear a little extra rumble if the ambient noise isn’t too loud.
Power Tour 2009: Day Two, Racine
By Ryan Brutt
HemiPwr70
Today started off fairly bad, I got up around 8:30 and it was storming by me in Milton. I thought it was going to be a horrible day, I couldn’t have been more wrong.
I got everything loaded, said goodbye to my friends there and headed out to meet up with the Tour in Whitewater. I didn’t know if I was going to be in front of the main group or behind, but I thought getting there by 9:30 or 10:00 am would be a good time to roll with the group.
I cruised along the back roads to Whitewater, it was fairly uneventful. Pulling into Whitewater it looked as though the whole town was still asleep. There wasn’t anyone on the sides of the road or anything. I was wondering if I had come to the right place.
Continue reading after the jump!
I Simply LOOOOVE Ferraris
By Mike Musto
RideLust.com
When Larry Kosilla, President and founder of the New York Motor Club, called me up to let me know he had access to the rare and wonderful Ferrari F430 Scuderia I began to get excited. Then we drove it…
All I can say people is… MAMMA MIA!!
