There is a reason these contraptions where nicknamed Awful Awful Fuel Altereds. Imagine a fiberglass T-bucket with near zero impact protection and a short wheelbase that assures wheelstands on rickety prewar suspension designs. …read more
Monthly Archives: December 2014
1970 Dodge Challenger – Hero Car
Everyone has a favorite movie car. Even most people who aren’t into cars otherwise can name one or two they really like. Of course it goes without saying that car guys have a special affinity toward these mechanical stars of the silver screen. …read more
10 Reasons Muscle Cars Run Faster Now
Old magazine tests are considered by many to be the gold standard of muscle car performance, and those old dragstrip times are routinely beat these days. …read more
The Bonneville Speed Week That Wasn’t
What Happens When You Have to Call Off the Fastest Race On Earth? …read more
1955 Ford F-100 – F-100s Started It All!
Terry Van Housen is a rancher in Stromsburg, Nebraska, raising corn and cattle. In fact he raises a lot of corn because he needs to feed more than 10,000 head of cattle! It was a business that he built himself and going back about three decades, he credits an F-100 …read more
1970 Dodge Coronet R/T – Growing Up Mopar
If you grew up in the ’80s getting picked up after school in hopped-up Mopars, you might be prone to be a Mopar guy today. Such is the case with Scott Evans, who admittedly is a Mopar guy because of his dad and his dad’s circle of Mopar buddies. …read more
1940 Chevrolet Master Deluxe – Whole New Identity
Seventy-five years later, Jannen Dinkard’s inherited 1940 Chevrolet Master Deluxe makes people come running over like the day her grandmother drove it home. …read more
1932 Ford Deuce – Back To Black Attack
A HOT ROD Veteran Comes Back For a Third Feature …read more
Magnificent Mopar Machines
Larry Bell is the unofficial leader of Mopar magic in New Castle and hosts the annual Nursing Home Nationals, one of the biggest annual private Mopar gatherings in the nation. …read more
Who Started The Camgrinder Wars?
Last month, we tracked the Camgrinder Wars’ innocent beginnings to a series of confrontational “hero” and “antihero” advertisements placed by a trio of Southern California camshaft companies. …read more