Heres my first picture from the 2012 Detroit Autorama. Just beyond awesome, just looking at this car made me wish that the altered class's were still around in the big leagues. Even though the older cars were a lot harder to drive and a whole lot more dangerous, they just were so much more exciting. Long live the days of professional racing before you had to have a major sponsor and a million dollars to just race 1 car for an entire year.
This one is purely for the enjoyment of the watcher. The title;"Old man steps on dyno roller" pretty much sums up this entire post, so without further to do the video.
There are just those amazing days when you get lucky, and at the Detroit Autorama, yesterday I got to meet one of my heroes. I met Dean Jeffries, and he is just an all around nice guy, and it was just amazing to hear him talk. He even signed one of my designs, it was just way to cool.
Beyond all doubts, Ronnie Sox was one of the best racers of all time, and his tuner; Buddy Martin was one of the best tuners of all time! The duo reigned terror throughout the 1960s up into the 1980s in Stock, Super Stock, Pro Stock, and for a while even the early funny car eliminator period! Their race hauler seen here around 1971, just shows how far the sport has come. Personally I like this look so much more then the modern day race hauler look where everything is done by a body wrap procedure instead of actually painting, not to mention that the actual tow rigs looked so much better back in the day as well!
Well some people would say that yet again another good chevy has been destroyed because of this, I say that its the exact opposite of that. This in essence is the very foundation of hot rodding, its taking whatever you want, and doing whatever you want with it in the pursuit of speed, be it on land, water, air, or in this case mud!
bangshift.com has this really really awesome gallery which includes 52 pictures of old school style gassers, and actual cars that were raced in the gas classes back in the day. Well worth the look!
To some people this is just wrong and the idea shouldn't even come up. Well In my opinion its so right! The nova has a 13b style rotary motor in it making over 550hp at the wheels and runs 11.0s at the strip well pulling the wheels. Not bad at all!
Although not really normal car action, this is definitelysomething exciting to watch. This event taking place in Tennessee, shows that there is always going to be something new and exciting going on in the world of cars.
Heres an oddball, ever heard of a Ford EXP or the Mercury LN7? Based off the escort platform, the first generation was from 1982 to 1985. The second generation doesn't look that cool, so that's why I will not be focusing on it. The cars had a whopping 70hp from a 1.6l 4 cylinder, and were front wheel drive. Either way, way to cool. Here are a few images. In the first image, the EXP is on the left, and the LN7 is on the right.
This just cannot be overlooked, and this is probably hands down the best sleeper in history, I mean 4 door, hidden cage, 8-inch wheels with drag radials, rust, paint that is in odd states of repair, its just way to cool, and oh yeah, its got a twin turbo small block chevy, this just went off the top end of the cool board! With a best et of 8.95 at 152mph, its obviously a monster!
Its weird how looking back at old pictures of your car make you realize how much you really enjoy it, and in my case how much I appreciate the styling of mine, and the memories in it that my dad and I created. Of course this picture also makes me wish that summer was here again, winter is just annoying at this time and point.
It doesn't really get any sadder then this, but then again, the footage is amazing to watch, even though a good driver went down that day. Art Arfons though was not driving that day! The driver was Gene Thomas, R.I.P.
This really requires the proper music for this rant, and any colour you like really helps me focus my emotions on this.
As of recently I keep seeing more people saying they have a few to many project cars, and such of that sort. Well honestly in my opinion any car you spend a lot of time working on starts to become fused with you, it becomes part of your soul. A car is never done, no matter what, no matter if the owner says its done, it will always be modified (restorations are a different story), but a modified car, will always be that way. It has soul, any true car has soul, and you can communication to it well driving it, and the more you drive it the more you get to know it. I'm that way with my 1963 Mercury Meteor which is named Mr.Venables, its a long story in regards to the car which I will explain later, but I have realized that when I am an old man, Ill still be modifying the car, its just what I do, and it just fits the car, its always changing like I am. Kinda a short rant, but I feel that all hot rodders agree on this one.
A while back I used to work for the facebook application vDream Racing, and on the app was the 1969 camaro rendering on the left. I didn't make it, but I had planned to go really into detail on making it better (i made the hood on it in about 15 minutes and it got in lol, it was just trying to match the car). Anyway, now that vDream is "closed" down, I just had to redo that 1969 Camaro. I felt so bad for the car in real life, compared to the game. For starters in regards to things wrong on the original render, its got no passenger side tire, its got 4 bucket seats, and the back two are higher then the front two, and its proportions are just way off. On the right is how far my redo of it is so far, and I am quite happy with it. Also the wheels on both cars are the same to show how things have changed so drastically.
Its weird to think that the whole pro street trend has started to die out. Sure Pro Touring is great, but Pro Street just has a whole different cool feel to it. People would build more dare to be different cars, and there wasnt a limit to how modified the car could be, and most of them were fast too. This Buick is a prime example of that, hopefully it will make a comeback in the near future.
There are such few cars as iconic in the world of drag racing as the Anglia. A handful at best when combined with a supercharged or injected power plant, but at the end of the day, an amazing car. Here's a few Anglia pictures to make the day just that much better!
Most people in my age group (myself sometimes included) enjoy the Toyota Supra. Its a great car for the price, and there is a lot of modification out there for it, but everyone overrates it. Now on the other side of the tracks there's this 1970s AMC Hornet, a car that isn't known for being the fastest thing around, although if you had a Hornet X back in the day you could do some damage. Well in this battle of epic proportions, it would seem like the Supra would have a clear win, and it would be over extremely fast, and it is in the first race when the Hornet is on motor only, but the second race, lets just say that this Supra owner went home with a whole different outlook on cars built by AMC. I can only imagine if the Hornet had been a Pacer at how bad the Supra owner would feel for his loss.
