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October 19, 2010
A Serious ’69 Camaro
By Speedhunters
Car Culture At Large
Out of the cars that came out to the Irwindale Thursday night drags, this Chevy Camaro is another that stuck out from the crowd. Even though the car looks like its still an original body ’69 Camaro, there’s been a lot of chassis work involved. As, for the engine itself, its hard to tell what V8 exactly is lurking underneath when there’s a giant scoop protruding at the top. The office. I’m surprised to see that there’s still some carpet in the interior AND wood panelling! And let’s not forget to mention those two giant nitrous bottles. See more pics below the jump, via Speedhunters.
-by Linhbergh
Hemmings Find of the Day: 1972 Fiat 130 Coupe
By Dan Strohl
Hemmings
One of the best looking Fiats of its era, this 130 Coupe for sale on Hemmings was a delicacy reserved for jet-setting Europeans; Americans would have to content themselves with Fiat’s sports cars and boxy economy sedans. The 130 was introduced as a large (by European standards, anyway) sedan in 1969 as the successor to the long-in-the-tooth 2300 Lusso. It was followed up three years later by the Coupe.
The 130 Coupe was designed by Pininfarina’s Paolo Martin, and it bears a resemblance to his Rolls-Royce Camargue of 1970 – so much so that Fiat and Rolls-Royce might have considered splitting the bill for his services. The 130 was powered by a 2,866cc, 60-degree V-6, designed by Aurelio Lampredi, formerly of Ferrari. With a cast-iron block, aluminum heads and single overhead camshafts, the V-6 was rated at 165 hp at 6,500 RPM. The only transmission offered was a Borg-Warner three-speed automatic. Continue reading at Hemmings.
Fail: Corvette Crashes Into Ocean
Tampa Sports Car Examiner
This is by far the biggest Corvette fail of the year. The driver was apparently trying to skimboard his C6 Corvette, only to result in salty failure. If you love the Corvette like me, this video is going to hurt. See more exciting Corvette action at Tampa Sports Car Examiner.
October 18, 2010
Tell Me Conan Didn’t Wreck This Dart
By Rob Einaudi
Editor-in-Chief
Looks fake. I hope it is, cause that Dart didn’t deserve to die.
LFA or R8?
By Karan Singh
StreetFire.net
Speed compares two of the most popular supercars on the market, the all new Lexus LFA and the all new Audi R8 V10! Which one do you like?
What Did You Do This Weekend?
By Ted Berner
GTwildfire
I cleaned the shop and laid down a 4′x6′ piece of plywood for use as a work surface to rebuild the 4T65E trans for my ’01 Grand Prix GT, and got all shop tools organized in preparation–now I’m just awaiting the rebuild kit. Tightened the strut bolts on my Malibu, trying to pin down a steering or suspension issue that allows 45 degrees of slack in the wheel, so far unsuccessfully. For the Camaro, found a glove box door and got a couple spare sealed beams at the U-Pull-It, then replaced the driver side window motor.
How about you? What did you do this weekend?
Japanese 370Z Build Part 2
By Ben Schaffer
The Real JDM
The owner of this car is fairly crazy for high end modifications. Here you can see he installed the Ab Flug rear bumper along with the Mines carbon fiber wing cover. Although I’ve done my best to try to hide the scissor door conversion (which I don’t happen to like), you can see a peek of it in the above photo. Above you can see another nice wheel choice, this time TE37s in a gloss black which fit the car’s theme and makes the blue brakes pop nicely. I really also love the Amuse exhaust poking out in the above picture with the blued/gold ring tips. Classic. More pics after the jump. And you can read Part 1 here.
Scorch Racing Blitz Drag Supra
By Speedhunters
Car Culture At Large
Back in 2008 this Scorch Racing Supra kind of raised a few eyebrows after its appearance on the Blitz stand at the Tokyo Auto Salon. At the time it seemed strange that Blitz would get involved with a drag project, as interest in the scene has died down in Japan. I originally shot it for Turbo magazine, now long gone since being axed in late 2008, and at the time the car was supposed to be raced within a few months, ready to set those record passes everyone was expecting from it. But nothing really happened for a good two years.
I was very surprised the other weekend in Sendai Hi-Land when out of nowhere it showed up at the strip. I had completely forgotten about it but it looked like the project, after a little pause, is back on track. It was the car’s first outing and it achieved what it set out to do within a few passes, so the Scorch Racing and Blitz guys were extremely happy. The car put down a series of low 9-second runs before recording a 9-sec dead at the end of its first practice day. See more pics and continue reading at Speedhunters.
-by Dino Dalle Carbonare
