By Dan Strohl

Hemmings

The barn finds continue to come in on Hemmings.com, this time it’s a 1940 Ford convertible – once hot rodded with a dual-carb intake and aftermarket heads (Fenton? I can’t tell). Offered out of Newaygo, Michigan, for $5,000. From the seller’s description:

1940 Ford convertible; recently found where it had been parked for over 40 years. The car is a little rough looking but pretty solid and fairly complete. Comes with an extra door. Back in the day it was probably quite a hot rod with a dual carb intake and champion heads. I would love to bring it back to life but have too many projects.

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By Speedhunters

Car Culture At Large

Those of you who’ve been following our coverage from the recent Pro-Am Nationals at Irwindale Speedway will have noticed that Canadian Ian Fournier took the overall spoils at the wheel of his four door ER32 Skyline. Although this type of car is a fairly common site at drifting events in Japan, it’s rarely seen in North America. And this points to an element which differenciates the Canadian Japanese car scene from its American equivalent. Fresh-off-the-boat imported machines are quite plentiful in Canada, as any 15 year old Japanese car can be easily imported into the country.

So it wasn’t too much of a surprise when I spotted this clean RHD 1991 drift spec Onevia, at the Drift Mania West Event this past August in Victoria. For those of you who don’t know the term: Onevia is a mash-up of the words One-Eighty and Silvia. It refers to S13s which started life as Silvias but been converted to 180SX front ends. Continue reading at Speehunters

By Rod Chong

By Jim Brennan

UDMan

Welcome to the CarDomain Obscure Muscle Car Parking Lot, a feature in which we try and introduce you to muscle cars you may never have known about, as well as re-define what a muscle car can be. I received a message from a fan on my Facebook Page (Thanks Richard!) about two V-8 powered muscle cars of the ’70s that were manufactured by Ford and GM. Neither one of these machines were produced for the North American Market, nor were they made for our close cousins down under in Australia. These were locally produced in the country of South Africa, to be certified for racing in a local Production Car series. I will get to the Ford version at another time, but first, let’s discover the Chevrolet Firenza Can-Am 302!

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By John Coyle

Deputy Editor

I’d never heard of the movie the Wraith, but it apparently featured this killer Dodge concept called the M4S Turbo Interceptor. Its little four-banger produces a very healthy 440 horsepower, and the car is supposed to top out around 195MPH. escaperoute has put together a cool ride page detailing the history and restoration of this baby, head over and check it out.

By John Coyle

Deputy Editor

Even though I occasionally make fun of rotary engines—My favorite punchline: communism worked in theory too—I’ve always loved the looks of this generation RX-7. Doesn’t it give off kind of a Batmobile vibe? Anyway, Khalid has done a fantastic job with his, head over to his page and check out the before and after pics.

By Michael Berenis

Tampa Sports Car Examiner

The latest marketing creation from Ford shows a late model Mustang tearing up the urban streets with skateboarders. The idea and concept is great, but the general consensus on the web is that they could have done a much better job on the CGI. Read more about the Mustang skateboarding at Tampa Sports Car Examiner.

By Rob Krider

Rob Krider

So you want to get into motorsports, but the only thing in your driveway is grandma’s 1976 Buick stationwagon. You’re in luck. Knock the windows out of that bitch (the stationwagon, not your grandma) and head to the demolition derby.

Not only will you get the opportunity to cut off the exhaust system and enjoy the kick ass melody of an uncapped V-8, but you’ll get the chance for motorsports victory in front of a fairground stadium filled with drunk, derby fans. That’s right, you’ll be vying for glory in front of a paying and cheering crowd, try to find that at an autocross.

Demolition Derby is something YOU can do (and by destroying the car you’ll be saving the environment by ridding the world of another gas guzzling monster). To learn where, cost, car preparation, adrenaline factor and how to actually win a Demo Derby read the rest at Speed Sport Life.

By John Coyle

Deputy Editor

You know the drill: Come up with a caption for the picture below by noon PST next Thursday. If you submit the funniest one, we’ll send you some CarDomain swag. Three entries per member max. Good luck!

By Katherine Helmetag

Atomicalex

Wow. That’s all I have to say about this recall. Over four million Toyota and Lexus vehicles need to return to the local motherships for the accelerator pedal problem. Dealers are being told to cut the pedal so that it can’t interfere with the floor mat, which should have already been removed or restrained (with a ziptie) by now. Please, please, please go to your dealer and have this work done – the last thing any of us here at CarDomain want to hear is that a sweet ride like DumpedCorolla’s ended up in a wall. Toyota remains mum on the idea that there could be a serious software fault contributing to the problem. A full list of cars in the recall after the jump.

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By John Coyle

Deputy Editor

At SEMA, I’m always running around the floor geeking out about all the sick machines, and to be honest, sometimes I forget that people actually launch products there. And while there were hundreds of new gadgets and gizmos that dropped this year, I have to say that I was really impressed with Strattec’s BOLT lock. The first time you use it, the mechanism learns the key you insert, which means you can have a padlock that works off your ignition key. Is that cool or what? Nads got all the details on this trick piece of kit when he swung by their booth—watch this video to find out how it works!