By Mark Gearhart

powerTV Media

Hollywood Hot Rods and Raybestos have teamed up to build one of the first 1932 Ford “Indy” shop trucks powered by Ford’s new 5.0 liter Mustang engine. The ground-up build process by Troy Ladd and crew can be followed on the Hollywood Hot Rods website. The completed project will be given away by Raybestos to one lucky winner. To enter, check out the Raybestos Garage for details.

For more on this story with photos, check out StangTV.com


Photo Credit: Hollywood Hot Rods

By Speedhunters

Car Culture At Large

Well it’s July 7th, and in Japan RX7 owners and enthusiasts use the day to celebrate their favorite rotary sports car. Our friend Sassy at 22C Works just sent us a bunch of images from a recent club gathering. hese guys live for the first generation RX7, and SA22C’s of all types came out to the meet in Nagano. Continue reading at Speedhunters

By Mike Garrett

By Brian Lohnes

BangShift.com

There are few things we love more than good television news bloopers. When over-zealous, smarmy reporters get a dose of their own medicine on camera, it is pure gold. In what could be the single greatest film clip involving on old Ford F600 dump truck and either liquid animal guts or animal refuse ever, a reporter learns the dangers of hard braking.

Pay close attention right up to the end. The background laughter makes the whole clip.

By Michael Berenis

Tampa Sports Car Examiner

Let’s all jump in the CarDomain time machine and take a trip to Watkins Glen, 1967. It’s the day of the United States Grand Prix, and we are about to witness an extraordinary finish. Limping in to the finish with a busted suspension, the winner sought victory lane seconds ahead of his team mate in second place. Think these old timer’s are slow? Try averaging 125 mph around Watkins Glen and then we’ll talk.  Read more about the historical event at Tampa Sports Car Examiner.

By Jen Dunnaway

Editor

I guess this shouldn’t be surprising, but I’ve been noticing a ton of really nice-condition 70′s cars for sale lately, but certainly not for 70′s-car prices. If you go on your local Craigslist and simply enter your desired year in the search under “Cars and Trucks”, you can get a pretty good idea of the range of stuff that’s in your area. My search for “1973″ turned up this mint-condition Mercury Cougar XR7. I want it, but not for 6000 bucks! There was also this beautiful mildly-cammed Centurion, which Rob swears should be a 1200-dollar car because of its four doors, for $2900–I think the engine rebuild and the performance goodies alone make it worth it–and this gorgeous 460 cu-in Ranchero for an unheard-of $8500. Why is everyone trying to offload undesirable 70′s rides at Barret-Jackson premiums all of a sudden? To search a particular year nationally on craigslist, go to Google and enter exactly this in the search window:  site:craigslist.org 1973. What year(s) are you searching and what kind of cool stuff have you found?

By Fireball Tim

Movie Car Design Master

Ok, so you’re up on Fords? We’ll see. Name these top 5 films and cars. Duh. If you can’t, go get coffee and cry. Too easy? Just wait…

Continue reading "Fireball Grubs Top 5 Ford Movies" »

By Jen Dunnaway

Editor

While at Daytona for the NASCAR race weekend, I got a bit of a break in the middle of the day Saturday to sit in the almost-deserted stands with a couple of the Dodge boys and snap a few pics of the Rolex cars running their 250-mile race, which ran on Daytona’s inner road course as well as its high-banked tri-oval. A lot of race fans are still baffled that Chevrolet declined to build a NASCAR Camaro, letting the new Challenger and Mustang race cars handily steal the spotlight. Though the NASCAR version would necessarily have a more templatized body and air dam, this Rolex Series car gives a sense of what a Nationwide Series Camaro should have looked like running the superspeedway this weekend.  Hit the jump for a few more pics from of the Rolex Series race from behind Daytona’s burly catch fence.

Continue reading "Grand-Am Rolex Cars At Daytona" »

By Jen Dunnaway

Editor

I think the smile, not the smoke, is what makes this burnout pic great. See Tania and Michael’s ride page for more.

By Karan Singh

StreetFire.net

What’s not to love about a Supra that generates over 1500HP? Watch as this monster tears up the dyno!

Supra 1508hp dyno pull

By Mike Musto

RideLust.com

Earlier this year I took part in the One Lap of America, a combination road rally / track event that takes competitors on a 3500 mile journey to some of the best racetracks in the United States. This event will test not only your stamina and endurance but every single part on your car. It’s long, it’s tough and it’s probably the most fun you’ll have on four wheels. When prepping the car for this event one of the biggest decisions that I had to make was tire choice. I needed a max summer performance tire that could handle the rigors of 9 days of hardcore track duty, 3500 miles of open road and perform well in both the wet and dry. In the past I’ve run Nitto NT555′s, Goodyear Eagle F1′s, Michelin Pilot Sports and Michelin PS2s. These were all good tires but each one had some inherent drawbacks.

Read the full review at Ridelust.com.