By John Coyle

Deputy Editor

Damn, watching the crazy clip made me nervous! Just driving down this twisty little road in the dark seems like it would be sketch, but it doesn’t even phase this driver. Check out all the sweet drifts he pulls off! Talk about balls of steel!

By John Coyle

Deputy Editor

It took me a little while to get used to Los Angeles, but I have to say, I’m really starting to love it. You can buy liquor in the grocery store, it’s loaded with awesome restaurants, and the weather is almost comically perfect. Seriously, when it does happen to rain, which it does like every couple of months, people freak out. It’s like what happens when it snows in Seattle. Sorry if you’re currently buried in snow, I’m really not trying to rub it in. Anyway, this week’s winner is NobiZero, who came up with; “Wrong button Bond!” Congrats man! Tune in tomorrow for the next installment of our freakishly popular Caption Contest!

By Rob Einaudi

Editor-in-Chief

Is this awesome or what? Check out the TV, lamp, mini bar and captain’s chairs after the jump!

Continue reading "’69 Road Runner, Circa 1978" »

By John Coyle

Deputy Editor

Lux Performance’s mobility scooter looks just like the kind that you see septuagenarian’s steering around the grocery store. But this baby is packing a 48-volt Etek motor, which gives it a certainly terrifying top speed of 46MPH. You have to love how the clip starts off with people showing off the injuries they’ve received at its hands… via Jalopnik

By Jen Dunnaway

Editor

I spotted this burly 6-door Travelall in a parking lot near work yesterday. While the guys at my shop were pretty convinced that this is a home-built custom, there’s some evidence that International contracted with conversion companies to make limited-issue longer-wheelbase vehicles like this one for use as airport shuttles and so on (check out the long International in the background in this still from Harold and Maude). The truck looked to be running some mild suspension mods, with double shocks front and rear, and had a BioDiesel sticker in the rear window. Cool!

Continue reading "Sweet Stretched International" »

By Katherine Helmetag

Atomicalex

“This is a test. We need to see where the market goes.” Jim Federico, Vehicle Line Executive for Global Midsize Vehicles, is excited about the future for the Buick Regal brand at GM. The Regal will launch this year and is an important addition to the line – it’s the first Buick in a long time that sheds cushy in favor of performance. To make his point, Jim notes that “The GS is the return of turbocharging to Buick.” The importance of this is not lost on us – our next question was “what about GN?” That’s where the test line comes in: if the Regal GS does well, Federico says that a GN is “not out of the question.” More on the future for Buick and the Regal after the jump.

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By Brian Lohnes

BangShift.com

Here’s a film that’s been around a while, 60 years to be exact. It was lost to the public eye for many years, but in today’s times it has been passed around the Internet. This most recent version that we found on YouTube is the cleanest copy we’ve seen, and it’s presented full length, 27 minutes of greatness. The film we’re talking about is Ingenuity in Action, produced by Hot Rod magazine in 1959.

The YouTube title says this is from 1958, though the race depicted is the 1959 NHRA Nationals, the first year that event was held in Detroit. In 1958 it was in Oklahoma City.

In this you’ll see many huge names of the time, as well as Hot Rod writers including NHRA founder Wally Parks. It’s corny at times, but that is what makes this absolutely fantastic, the most epic tale of how it was there ever was.

Come back to this when you have time to see the full 27 minutes. It’s worth it.

By Ben Schaffer

The Real JDM

It is no secret that I’m really into cars…One of the things that happens over the years of being a car freak like me is that it takes greater extremes of unique things to impress me. So just when I thought I had seen it all from JDM tuning, I found this. A very rare TVR Sagaris in itself, but then modified with a custom titanium exhaust produced by Heat Magic Japan. The guys that made this exhaust are the same crazy guys who made that 4 muffler motorcyle exhaust I recently posted.

Before TVR was sold off to a rich young Russian guy who gradually ruined it, they were producing some really crazy cars. Unfortunately I’ve never had a chance to drive a TVR but it was always a dream of mine. To me, TVR embodies the light weight concept of Lotus but with an added level of insanity because all the TVR cars tend to be about 2-3x the power of Lotus cars. I’ve heard they are a nightmare to drive…it sounds like a fun nightmare to me! Continue reading at The Real JDM

By Dan Strohl

Hemmings

More sub-$10k two-doors, you say? Sure. How about this 1968 Pontiac Grand Prix, offered for $5,999 out of Appleton, Wisconsin? From the seller’s description:

Solid car with power windows, hidden Headlights & air conditioning. Neat old car that runs good with Awesome interior. Body needs a little work but the car can move with its 400 cubic inch engine and 350 horsepower.

More at Hemmings

By Speedhunters

Car Culture At Large

After spending some time in Ebisu circuit the other day shooting some drift cars I realized the lack of drift events in this “off-season” is getting to me. I always complain I cover too much drifting during the year but I’m experiencing some rubber-smoke withdrawal symptoms. So I thought it would be a good time to take a look at the other GX71 I spotted a Nikko at the end of November. This old-school Chaser was parked next to the Cresta in the paddock and simply looked sensational slammed on its tiny 14-inch wheels. Continue reading at Speedhunters

By Dino Dalle Carbonare