By Fireball Tim

Movie Car Design Master

Sweet. I think I’ll have to place an order for the Lightcycle early. It comes with two cup holders…

By Mark Gearhart

powerTV Media

Since the release of the highly acclaimed new 2011 Ford Mustang GT this spring with its touted new 5.0L engine pumping out 412 horses, performance shops and owners have been raising the performance bar in short order as they continually push to find the limits of Ford’s new and improved Pony car. Both Evolution Performance and JPC Racing have pushed their Mustangs into the 10s. And just this last weekend, came the 9’s; courtesy of Strictly Performance in Pearland, TX.

Richard Lelsz drove Strictly Performance’s 2011 GT to a 9.968 at 137.19 miles per hour on Friday night at Houston Raceway Park, in Baytown, TX to become the first of the new Mustangs to break into the 9’s.

Check out StangTV to see more about how they got there.

By Jen Dunnaway

Editor

…and its messaging just seems more believable somehow than Toyota’s dubious made-in-America claims. Maybe it’s the Johnny Cash soundtrack.

By Karan Singh

StreetFire.net

Note to self: do not open vehicle door while inside an automated car wash.

Suburban Loses Door in Car Wash! FAIL!

By Jen Dunnaway

Editor

I love it when people do stuff with reflection in their pics, and of course it works out especially well on a black car. See more of Rudy’s 370Z on his ride page!

By Jen Dunnaway

Editor

Awhile back I asked what boneheaded habits you hate the most when committed by other drivers, and you piped up with everything from tailgating to left-lane hogging to cell-phone yakking. It seems like our roads are getting more dangerous, and yes, it’s both easy and gratifying to point the finger at all those idiot drivers out there. But wait! Is there a chance that we’re contributing to the problem? Come on, fess up. Study after study has shown that virtually everyone considers themselves to be a better-than-average driver, but if that were true, the very concept of “average” would be meaningless. So you must have at least a bad habit or two that’s bugging you, or that’s gotten you in trouble before, or even caused you to wreck. And the more aware of our own bad habits we are, the more we can do to counteract them and keep from becoming a hazard on the road–and putting our rides in jeopardy.

My own bad habit is not looking far enough down the road. In defensive driving, we’re always taught to be far-sighted, scanning the road all the way to the horizon and anticipating slowdowns and trouble spots before we end up in the thick of them. But sometimes I’ll instead catch myself fixating on things in my immediate vicinity that are in danger of running into me. While that’s important, get too short-sighted on the road and you may very well, as they say in NASCAR, get caught up in someone else’s wreck. I have to consciously train myself to look further down the road than I’m naturally inclined to.

How about you? What bad driving habit of your own would you like to change?

By David Clarke

highspeedhijinks

Last summer came big news for my hometown of Malta. We heard that an extremely large company known as Global Foundries was going to build a state-of-the-art-computer chip manufacturing plant right in the heart of our sleepy little town and bring with it 2300 jobs and highly skilled workers looking for homes, potentially bringing an end to the town’s financial woes. Amidst all the celebration, however, there’s one seemingly small but pressing problem for the town’s gearhead and race fan communities: the company’s arrival may spell the end of the local dirt track. Hit the jump to see how it turned out.

Continue reading "Home Track Stays, But At a Cost" »

By Mark Gearhart

powerTV Media

Nitrous oxide is unquestionably one of the greatest single power-adding options out there for the high performance street and drag racing markets. While there are certainly more powerful options, they simply can’t match the ease of installation and the flexibility that nitrous offers. On the other hand, using nitrous is a lot like playing with fire (okay, actually it’s a lot like playing with fire, as you’ll see in the videos below) in that if you don’t know what you’re doing, its better off left alone. Without further ado, we present some of the finest examples of drag racing pyrotechnics shows courtesy of nitrous oxide setups gone bad.

If there is such a thing as worst case scenario in a nitrous explosion, this particular one involving Big Dog/Pro Modified racer Donnie Krusinski is probably petty darn close. At this Big Dog event at Piedmont Dragway in North Carolina, Krusinski’s Monte Carlo backfires instantly at the drop of the hammer, and wastes absolutely no time erupting into a bonafide four alarm blaze. Even watching the video there are some tense moments as the entire car engulfed in flames so quickly that Donnie couldn’t react quick enough to unbuckle and get away before the rest of the car began to burn. Luckily he was able to safely get out of the car, but this is undoubtedly one of, if not the worst explosions turned fires that we’ve ever seen.

See the rest of the nitrous explosions at Dragzine.com

By Speedhunters

Car Culture At Large

In a world of much seriousness, it’s great that every now and then one person comes along to remind us it’s okay to have a laugh. Brendan Bynre arrived into the middle of a Show and Shine paddock with this PS13. I’m sure you can imagine the stir it caused when he parked up amongst a group of over cleaned and under used cars. Continue reading at Speedhunters

By Paddy

By Brian Lohnes

BangShift.com

t’s OK, you can stop looking. We’ve found the coolest 1970 Pontiac Firebird in the world. This restored racer has some interesting history under its belt, like being the first production car to win an SCCA race on radial tires. It competed at Daytona, Sebring, and several Trans Am races during the 1972 season. Because the car and team were based in Canada, the team was allowed to run a Chevy engine, because Canadian Pontiacs shipped with Chevy mills.

Even neater than that, the car was constructed by Jerry Titus’ TG Racing team. It was the third of three car built with the intention of competing in the 1970 Trans Am season. BF Goodrich became the primary sponsor of the car and it became known as the “BFG Tire Bird”.

According to the seller’s ad, after the 1971 Daytona 24 hours, the car was converted into a Camaro and lived the rest of its racing days as a Chevrolet. Obviously the car has been restored to appear as it did prior to the change over.

The sales price is a stratospheric $550,000. As much as we love the car and think it runs the cool meter off the charts, half a million is steep money. Sure it was the first radial tire car to win an SCCA race, and being a footnote to history is something cool, but half-a-million cool?

Being able to fire it up and take it out at historic races would probably make all that buyer’s remorse float away like exhaust out of the side pipes.

Oh, we want it bad.

Source — AutoTraderClassics.com — 1970 Pontiac Firebird Historic Racer