By Rob Einaudi

Editor-in-Chief

Last year at SEMA there were a bunch of Challengers dressed up as ‘Cudas. So it shouldn’t be too surprising to see some Camaros dressed up as Firebirds this year. This 455 Trans-Am concept from Lingenfelter looks pretty cool. I’m looking forward to seeing it next week! A few more pics after the jump, and you can learn more about this car at Car and Driver

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By Rob Einaudi

Editor-in-Chief

690,000 vehicles were sold under the Cash For Clunkers program, but according to Edmunds, most of those cars would have sold anyway during the course of the year. According to their calculations, the program only really resulted in 125,000 additional vehicle sales for 2009, which means it cost taxpayers $24,000 per car sold. Pretty cool, huh? Read the full article at CNN Money

By Rob Einaudi

Editor-in-Chief

It’s going to be the year of the Camaro at SEMA, and it looks like Neil is gonna have one of the hottest Camaros at the show! Man, I really love his color choices. Read the full press release and see pics from the build on Neil’s 2010 Chevy Camaro ride page. And of course we’ll have a lot more on this car next week!

By Brian Lohnes

BangShift.com

We stumbled across this video over on Streetfire.net. It was made by guys calling themselves Getaway in Stockholm and it is an objective road test review of a gnarly Pro Street 1972 Pontiac Lemans. If our ears are working right, it sounds like they claim the owner is making 650hp off the bottle and 1500hp on it. Yowza! Other than that bit of weirdness, this video is awesome.

Different criteria are judged and the findings are given at the end of each section. Pay close attention to the “handling” portion of the test and what the host has to say about riding shotgun in the car while trying to film. It’s chortle inducing stuff.

By Ben Schaffer

The Real JDM

One of my favorite things about well built demo cars is the depth of detail in the design/concept. This is a reoccurring topic that I bring up often on this blog. It comes up often because I really feel that details are what separate good builds from great builds. If you look at the above picture it is easy to be impressed. Sure, a Bentley Continental GT with a Japanese widebody kit and a dry carbon vented race hood is an impressive sight. The car could have been considered a win right there.

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By Dan Strohl

Hemmings

After yesterday’s $5.3 million Ferrari, just to prove that I’m an equal-opportunity classified-ad skimmer, I went digging around the bargain section of classifieds on Hemmings.com. There’s at least a couple pages’ worth of sub-$1,000 listings, mostly for parts cars, but I found these two – a 1951 Packard 300 and a 1962 Chevrolet Corvair – at the $1,000 level, both being sold out of New Orleans. Your first thought upon hearing that city’s name is correct: They’re both flood cars, a shame in both cases because the Packard seems to have been fully restored and on the road prior to Katrina and the Corvair is a turbo Monza Spyder coupe. Project cars – if not parts cars – for sure, but it goes to show that not everything on Hemmings.com is a multi-million-dollar showpiece. See the rest of the pics at Hemmings

By Speedhunters

Car Culture At Large

I’m not quite done with my Garage Boso features yet, here’s one more Boso-built car you guys might be interested in. The RA21 Celica above is owned by Option Magazine and Tokyo Auto Salon founder Daijiro Inada – a very well known personality both in Japan and abroad. Dai spends a lot of time in LA visiting his brother and taking part in the automotive culture here, so he decided to build a car to enjoy in sunny SoCal. After picking up the project, Dai brought the car over to Garage Boso where the guys got to work on transforming it into a modern kyuu-sha hot rod. Continue reading at Speedhunters

By Mike Garrett

By Rob Einaudi

Editor-in-Chief

Factory Five is bringing an electric powered ’33 Hot Rod to SEMA. According to Factory Five, the ’33 EV is “powered by UQM technologies electric drive and A123 Systems high-power lithium-ion batteries. It produces 300+ HP and over 660ft/lbs of torque in a 2400lb car and delivers a range of 100+ miles and 0-60 acceleration in an estimated 4 seconds! ” Can’t wait to see it next week, and of course we’ll have a ton of pics of the car right here in the CarDomain Blog!

By Michael Berenis

Tampa Sports Car Examiner

Do you have a watchful eye? This is just for you! The following footage shows a Corvette driver that is pulled over for suspected drunk driving. Now you have the chance to play the police officer thanks to this awesome video hosted on YouTube. Is the driver drunk, or sober? Pay special attention to every action taken and then leave your thoughts in the comments below. You can read my complete analysis at Tampa Sports Car Examiner!

By Ryan Porter

IN-N-OUT Editor

During lunch yesterday Rob and I played a good hour of Forza 3 and I must say the game is awesome. The graphics and sounds are amazing, and the feel of driving the different cars is like none other. I am no “gamer” and have very little experience in driving games like this, but I this game allows for people like me to really enjoy it no matter what your skill level is.

If you’re like me and hop directly into a Bugatti Veyron or the Ferrari FXX you will quickly find out what it’s like to slam head first into the walls and to finish the rest of the race entertaining your self with burnouts and head on collisions with the other racers. But if you step back and admit that improving at the game takes baby steps, you will be much better off picking the Rabbit GTI or the Dodge Charger R/T. Get in one of these cars and get your ducks in a row with the controls, your preferred driving view, the handling, and the passing. Watching Rob it was funny to see where he would try to pass and to then call him out on it as if he thought he could really get by with that kind of driving, just cause it was a video game.

Once you’ve got yourself situated, you should think about getting this setup! I’m looking to get myself a 360 with the entire racing wheel setup post SEMA.