By Rob Einaudi

Editor-in-Chief

I guess Conrad Grunewald didn’t do so well on Saturday, but still, the car looks hot. More video and pics after the jump!

Hankook Camaro at Seattle Formula D

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By Chris Bicknell

Bick66

Every Corvette ZO6 LS7 and ZR1 LS9 engine is hand built by skilled tradesmen at the GM Powertrain facility in Wixom, Michigan. GM is now offering ZR1 and ZO6 customers the option of actually building their new high performance engine themselves before it’s installed in their very own new Corvette. Watch below as a 638 horsepower 6.2L super-charged LS9 Corvette ZR1 engine is assembled. I’d love to have an opportunity like this someday. How cool it would be to build your own badass LS motor in the Wixom plant and then later watch it get installed into your new Corvette on the assembly line in Bowling Green, Kentucky?

By Karan Singh

StreetFire.net

We like burnouts just as much as the next guy, especially when they’re in a twin-turbo Mustang!

Joey’s 2005 Mustang GT Twin Turbo burnout and launch

By Rob Einaudi

Editor-in-Chief

Today’s pic is from Jon’s 2010 Chevy Camaro ride page.

By Rob Einaudi

Editor-in-Chief

Oops! I guess he put it into the wall earlier Friday morning before I got to the track.More pics after the jump, including Samuel Hubinette’s Challenger!

wrecked Viper at Seattle Formula D

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By Jen Dunnaway

Editor

During the NHRA Northwest Nationals at Pacific Raceways in Kent, WA this weekend, lifelong drag racer Mark Niver was killed after a wreck caused by a parachute malfunction. The chutes tore away before they had a chance to slow Mark’s Top Alcohol dragster, which then barreled through the sand trap and slammed the catch netting, causing the car’s frame to buckle over onto the driver’s cockpit. It seems a little senseless for a “safety net” to be responsible for someone’s death–shouldn’t it have a break-away design so it could still slow the vehicle significantly but then let go before causing catastrophic damage? I guess you can’t prepare for every possible eventuality when you’re dealing with basically flimsy vehicles hurtling through space at 300 mph–but NHRA has been a little deadly lately, and I wouldn’t be surprised if there was a safety crack-down before too long. Rest in peace, Mark Niver.

By Rob Einaudi

Editor-in-Chief

This cool little 510 was in the MotorMavens booth. Had a good time catching up with my buddy Antonio. Check out all the pics from Friday qualifying in our events section!

By Dan Strohl

Hemmings

Dodge? Ranger? Escort? Homebuilt eye fryer? None of the above: Though it looks like it’s been through the hands of one capable Barris-type customizer and one 18-year-old kid with a Pep Boys charge account, it’s actually a diesel-powered Ford concept truck. Thankfully, Ford didn’t go with the kissy-lips design language for the rest of its Ford truck lineup (can you just imagine that bumper/grille in red?). In the pictures, it appears to have held up much better than many other concept vehicles from that era, and is likely a running, driving truck. Read more at Hemmings.

By Rob Krider

Racerboy

If you look close at the rear quarter panel of that beat-to-hell Acura Integra, you may recognize a Car Domain sticker. That little sticker went round and round Auto Club Speedway’s road course all the way to victory during ChumpCar’s LA Freeway Enduro. The Krider Racing Big Sausage Pizza Delivery Integra won the race by six laps. Check out the coverage at Jalopnik.

By Chris Bicknell

Bick66

After work on Friday, Jen and I packed up the Corvette and headed North to spend the weekend visiting with her family in B.C. It’s the first time we’d really gotten the Corvette out of the city, and it was a good dry run for the drive we’re planning to take to Orange County later this month. We spent the afternoon at Pick-a-Part in Chilliwack on Saturday, and on Sunday evening enjoyed cruising White Rock’s beautiful beach-front main drag, which turns out to be a popular strip for local gearheads of all denominations anytime it’s as beautiful out as it was this weekend. Hit the jump to check out some of the rides we spotted there.

How about you? What did you do this weekend?

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