By Brian Lohnes

BangShift.com

We’re wrapping up the weekend-long BangShift.com coverage of the 2009 Holley NHRA National Hot Rod Reunion at Beech Bend Raceway with the best video yet! This one features some great burnout, wheelestanding, sideways action from dragsters, Funny Cars, Gassers, and Altereds. Make sure to wait for the wheelstand from the Suicide King Stude!

Play the video below (you can see it in fullscreen mode on StreetFire). You can also click these to see all of our other coverage from the Hot Rod Reunion.

By Speedhunters

Car Culture At Large

Here we have something very exotic that is not luxurious. It is a shame that it is really hard to find some nice photographs of this car to turn it into a feature. So this random snap has to do for now.

The TVR Cerbera Speed 12 was launched to be the quickest road going car at the time and featured a V12 7.7 liter engine. The engine was made from two speed sixes that was developed by TVR. At the time of unveiling the rumours said it had 1000bhp, but realistically it had around 800bhp. In the world there is only one road going version because TVR deemed the car not safe enough to put it into production. A nice trivia I found is that the TVR has a power-to-weight ratio nearly twice that of the Bugatti Veyron.

By Jeroen Willemsen

By Jim Brennan

UDMan

Welcome to the CarDomain Obscure Muscle Car Parking Lot, a regular feature which aims to expand the notion of what a muscle car is, and to discover hidden treasures while doing so. General Motors Canada produced a few rather unique vehicles during the 60s, specifically for their customers who lived in the great white north. Full sized Pontiacs looked virtually the same as those built for the US, but were built on Chevrolet chassis and powered by Chevrolet engines. They had unique model names like Laurentian, and Parisienne. The Chevy II was built with different trim, a Pontiac-esque grill, and renamed the Acadian. However, the subject of this posting is the mid-sized offering called the Beaumont, and during muscle car period of 1964-1970, Pontiac offered a performance version of the Beaumont that offered something different. Introducing the Beaumont SD.

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By David Wallens

Grassroots Motorsports

I recently checked out a friend’s jalopy racer, a real one built back in the ’50s. Lightweight body panels weren’t an option back then, but creative ways still existed for jettisoning some weight.

By Katherine Helmetag

Atomicalex

There are as many kinds of car show trophies as car shows, everything from bowling trophies to license plates. We gave these chunks of metal out at the Michigan Volkswagen Enthusiasts‘ Motorstadt VI event this year. One of the members did the CAD work and I think they turned out pretty darn cool. What’s the coolest trophy you’ve ever seen?

By Jen Dunnaway

Editor

Last weekend, with the chaotic road-course races at Infineon Raceway in Sonoma, NASCAR dealt its twice-yearly “so there” to those brilliantly insightful original thinkers who never seem to get tired of trotting out the worn-out old line about how NASCAR sucks because the cars “only turn left.” As always, it was satisfying to prove the geniuses wrong, and a total trip to watch the boxy COTs body-rolling and three-wheeling their way through the esses. Follow the jump for more of the weekend’s awesome road-course action.

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By Matt Wellumson

Neuwerks

One thing that Minnesota is known for is our yearly state fair. It is considered by many to be the largest in the nation, with the grounds itself taking up most of the Falcon Heights community. Inside the fairgrounds, exists a huge network of streets, buildings, and parking areas that are used sporadically during the year for other events needing the space. Most of these buildings were built in the 1950s or earlier, and provide the prefect setting for one of the largest classic car shows in the world.

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By John Coyle

Deputy Editor

Of course, both are right at home in a barn. Before he started producing the hot-blooded Raging Bulls he’s known, for Ferruccio Lamborghini made his living building tractors. If you believe the legend—and let’s all believe, please—he didn’t venture into the sports car world until he took his complaints about the clutches in his Ferraris to Enzo himself, who dismissed him as a simple tractor builder. The rest, as they say, is history. Check out some of Lamborghini’s more humble handiwork.

By Rob Einaudi

Editor-in-Chief

Only 45 of these special edition “2009 1/2″ Mustangs will be built. The car is a true fastback, with a body kit designed by Michael Leone, and will be priced around $60k. See more pics and read the full press release after the jump! Via Jalopnik

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By Mike Musto

RideLust.com

The 1963 Chevrolet Covair: a rare beast that was bred to strike fear into the hearts of motorists around the world. Its mid-engine design and aerodynamics package was supposedly designed by a group of Swedish physicists in a meat locker in South Jersey to ensure secrecy. With such features as 13″ wheels, drum brakes and a non-collapsible steering column, the Corvair was at first thought to be dangerous. But documents have surfaced recently which suggest that those features where purposely put in place to bring out the macho in every man, women and child.

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