By Rob Einaudi

Editor-in-Chief

Pretty cool…

By Rob Einaudi

Editor-in-Chief

At first I thought, crap, John already wrecked the GT-R? Then I remembered that our GT-R still doesn’t have plates. Via Jalopnik

By Brian Lohnes

BangShift.com

We have to thank Bangshift.com member Mr4Speed for this amazingly awesome eBay find. It is true perfection. A 1976 El Camino limo, one of three actually built and the longest of the troika. It the reverse mullet of cars. Business in the back, party in the front.

It was actually listed last week at a starting price of $3,000 but the owner is obviously interested in moving this bizarre creation as he has relisted and dropped the starting bid by a g-note, down to $2,000.

If you are planning on going to your local Halloween party as a redneck 1970′s pimp, this is the ride you need to have to totally capture the theme. Do it!

By Ben Schaffer

The Real JDM

I did not want to write a blog post about the FT-86 Toyota. I really try to not blog about things everyone else has already molested to death. So instead of telling you how awesome it will be if this car actually comes out, or how a FR platform Toyota with a boxer engine is just what this industry needs to bring enthusiasts back in droves, I’m going to talk about a DVD player…and zippers.

Yes that’s right. You want to read about the car, check out the 1000 other blogs who are all saying basically the same thing. I’m talking about the DVD player.

Why? Because nobody else is. Continue reading at The Real JDM

By Dan Strohl

Hemmings

With all the photo shoots, shows and general running about this summer, I’ve hardly made any progress on Project HMX. In fact, looking back over my blog posts on the project, I see now that I’ve spent all summer trying to get the AMX rear suspension and rear axle ready to swap in place of the Spirit GT suspension and axle under there now. One last thing I wanted to do before that swap, though, was rebuild the AMX rear brakes. Continue reading at Hemmings

By Speedhunters

Car Culture At Large

It isn’t every day you come across a car like this, that’s for sure. It all happened during a driving expedition my friends and I organized last fall, something we have been doing for years now. The idea is to all meet up at the Hakone Turnpike, one of Japan’s most well known driving roads, and drive up into the mountains and down into the Izu peninsula through the appropriately named “Izu Skyline” pass. Which is precisely where I first saw this impossibly spotless Nissan Skyline 2000 GT-R. Continue reading at Speedhunters

By Dino Dalle Carbonare

By Jim Brennan

UDMan

What started out as a division with a cult-like following ended up another irrelevant brand within the GM hierarchy. This is the story of how GM fumbled a golden opportunity to reinvent itself over the last 20+ years.

Almost twenty years ago, a new division was launched within the behemoth General Motors empire, and its purpose was to bring back disenfranchised buyers who refused to shop at Chevy, Oldsmobile, Pontiac, and Buick dealerships. The division was named Saturn, and it was going to be run differently than any other GM division. The premise of the Saturn brand was very simple, they did not share anything with GM; the cars were exclusively Saturn, the power train was exclusively Saturn, the manufacturing plant was exclusively Saturn, and the dealerships were stand alone Saturn stores. You could not find one GM logo connected to the entire brand when it was launched, right down to the keys. But one thing that stood out in the consumers mind was how they were treated at the dealerships with its no-haggle pricing policy and low pressure sales tactics. So how did a division with so much promise become the also ran within GM in less than 20 years? Read more of my piece at Automotive Traveler.

By Michael Berenis

Tampa Sports Car Examiner

A pack of the wildest street racers east of the Mississippi shut down a New York interstate for some illegal drag racing. Using their own vehicles as a road block and I-95 as their drag strip, the street racers line up and blast down the road at amazing speeds while traffic waits behind them completely clueless as to what is going on!

The freeway heist works based on the fact the traffic behind them thinks there is an accident or some other typical traffic jam causing the delay. By the time the last set of racers runs, traffic resumes as normal and everyone is clueless as to what happened. The only evidence left behind is the half inch thick rubber patch, a spray painted start line, and the infamous YouTube video. To learn more about how street racers shut down interstates, visit Tampa Sports Car Examiner.

By Jen Dunnaway

Editor

This could very well be just another one from the wild-ass rumor mill, but Jalopnik claims that the recently-reconstituted DeLorean Motor Company is seriously considering giving the Solstice a second lease on life. Under the scheme, DMC would supplement its limited output of refurbished DeLoreans with a run of DeLorean-badged Solstices (hey: they could call it the DeL Sol, get it?), and to this end, they’ve acquired a GXP for teardown and are eyeing GM’s defunct plant in Wilmington as their possible future assembly line. We’ll see, but if they do it, it’s going to need some gullwings.  Via Jalopnik.

Continue reading "Hot Or Not? DeLorean Solstice" »

By Fireball Tim

Movie Car Design Master

The Black Beauty is one of the coolest movie cars ever produced! Originally built by Dean Jeffries for the TV Show, later found in a junkyard by George Barris and rebuilt, this lady of the small screen has been on task for years. And now, with a new film, she’s gonna be even nastier!

Only three days on this auction! It can be parked in your driveway, or on your shelf… whatever works. And I’m throwin’ in a free t-shirt!!!! And that just makes it plain cool.