The Donington Historic Festival signals the beginning of the busiest part of the classic racing season in the UK, and already the event is getting international recognition for the quality of the entry – not bad for a festival that’s just three years old. Even better, the reach of the cars taking part is being [...]
Last fall I discovered a very cool and very unique automotive event unfolding at a lonely municipal airport in Central California. It was hosted by an organization called Shift S3ctor and known as Air Strip Attack. I’d never seen anything quite like it – completely legal, side-by-side racing on a wide open half-mile stretch of [...]
In a fitting new car introduction as we celebrate Americana here on Speedhunters, Chevy has just unveiled the 2014 Camaro Z/28 at the New York Auto Show. While the entire Camaro lineup is receiving updates for 2014, the Z/28 is positioned to be the ultimate option for racers and the most track ready Camaro of [...]
Don’t you just love it when things just work out without much planning? That’s what happened to me the other weekend, when, after covering the Nostalgic 2 Days event at the Pacifico Exhibition Center in Yokohama, I heard the Chop Sticks Car Club would be meeting up for one of their awesome cruises. So, after [...]
Pure and clean, old school styles, high on drag or low on ride, we now journey back in time to the early ’70s and beyond in search of the ultimate classics and the award for Oldtimer Car Of The Year. The Singer 911 SoCal is becoming a hotbed for 911 builds, particularly strong in old [...]
I can’t speak for everyone out there, but for me 2012 has been a remarkable year. I think when I look back on my career (or even my life in general) decades from now, I’ll see a clear turning point that happened this year. A very large part of this change has been the once-in-a-lifetime-opportunity [...]
Time to take a look at a final selection of cars from this year’s Mooneyes Hot Rod & Custom Show, an event that year after year not only continues to get better, but defines how seriously and passionately the Japanese take this scene. I’ve kept the best American rides I came across for this last [...]
I thought I’d start off this second post from this weekend’s Hot Rod & Custom Show with what has to be the most memorable car I saw there. I think it perfectly sums up what the custom car scene is all about in Japan, an obvious ability to not only emulate, interpret and evolve what [...]
For those of you that somehow missed yesterday’s post, let me bring you up to speed. I recently spent a weekend in Sin City getting reacquainted with the crazy machines of the good old thirteen-twenty variety. While the weekend as a whole was a massive display of shock and awe, there were some cars that [...]
Ah yes, drag racing. At its core, it is motorsport of the purist kind, and one with a very low barrier to entry. All one needs to enjoy a good drag is a car, a strip of relatively straight road surface of a predefined length and, preferably, someone else to find out whether or not [...]
I have making the annual pilgrimage to SEMA since 2008, but this year would mark my first venture through the Convention Center as a Speedhunter; which meant I had an entirely new agenda. I have to admit that SEMA is typically a week in time that I dread for months prior, but since my focus [...]
While it’s already been over forty-eight hours since I left the Las Vegas Convention Center, I can still feel the effects of the SEMA show, both mentally and physically. It’s that one-week jam-packed full of cars, parts, people and parties that those of us who work in the tuning industry will spend the next 362 [...]
Pairing drifting and big American V8-powered muscle cars is always a good formula – mix some ’70s nostalgia in there as well and it’s a pretty much perfect combination. Finnish drifter Mikko Viitala has taken a Z28-78 Chevy Camaro, anti-facelifted it for an even more early ’70s look and stuffed it full of horsepower.
His Camaro now mounts a 6.2-litre, 505hp LS3 engine from a 2010 Corvette and weights 1280kg when race ready. The underpinnings include the cream of modern mechanicals, with Bilstein shocks, Corvette disks and S14 coil-overs just part of the serious amount of kit installed under the fibreglass body. It’s Mikko’s third drift car since dipping his toe in the water with an Opel Manta back in 2004; an Opel Kadett then made way for the Camaro – quite a step up!
This video reinforces the evidence that muscle-cars go just fine around corners: this beast pretty much only goes sideways, and puts anything in its way to the smoking sword. Awesome.
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Porsche stirred up some excitement this week when it released new photos of its 918 Spyder Prototype, which is now running through its testing stages in iconic Martini livery and adding a sense of history to the upcoming hybrid supercar.
Pro Touring cars are really quite amazing when you think about it. On the surface the idea is pretty simple, a vehicle with classic Muscle Car style matched with modern performance and livability. In theory it IS simple, but when it comes actually building these cars it the whole thing becomes a lot more involved.
