A post-work pint and car park full of Rods? I was all over it. This month was the first Predators Hot Rod meet at the Bowling Green Pub in Litchfield and on the basis it wasn’t raining for the first time in what feel like forever, I jumped in the Herald and checked it out. [...]
The concept is pretty simple: find a straight, wide and under-utilized concrete runway, preferably as long as possible. Invite the fastest cars and bikes you can find to drop the hammer for a set distance, usually a half or full mile, and document the results. That was the recipe for success followed by last weekend’s [...]
One of the best bellwethers of a person’s will to succeed is how he or she responds to adversity. The act of attaining fame and fortune when the odds are in your favor or, at the very least, 50:50, is well below most people’s notewo…
It’s not often that a small yet devoted company gets the chance to work with a corporate giant. Let alone two. But that’s just what happened when Jonathan Ward, CEO and Founder of Icon, was asked by Ford to create a singu…
I’ve never been to Auto Sport Dynamics’ shop in North Carolina, so I decided to stop by and check on the happenings there. Formula Drift Atlanta was just a few weeks away at the time and they were busy prepping the three Falken cars. Here is a view of the main assembly room where the [...]
If you are old enough, then you remember a time when your imaginary expressions reached as far as a piece of paper and pencil. Now days, thanks photoshop and other applications from the latest Adobe software suite, someone’s imagination takes on a completely new life form. As evidence, Inside Line posted the a rendering of [...]
COVER SHOT BY ALEJANDRO SOLTERO It had all the makings of a once in a lifetime adventure rally: Speed, endurance, family, friends, mystery and, of course, the immeasurable beauty and intrigue of the mighty “BAJA”. For longtime buddies Lance Kane and Billy “The Kid” Boyer, the plan seemed easy enough. It simply meant getting Bill’s [...]
Ford and Vaughn Gittin Jr. just released a sketch of what the 2013 Ford Mustang RTR kit. Full images and details will be out soon but the RTR kit made by Vaughn Gittin Jr. will be coming out soon. We kind of like the new flair and setup to this…
When Rod confirmed that I’d be covering a couple of Berg Cup events this year, my first hope was to find Werner Weiss’ Zakspeed Escort. As it turned out, it was one of the first cars I happened upon, it’s distinct rear wing just sticking slightly out the back of its trailer.
The May Bank Holiday in the UK means only one thing: the BHP Show! Once a year the petrolhead community of Kent and the surrounding counties descend on the Lydden Hill circuit for an orgy of all that’s great and good in the modified car scene. It features such an eclectic mix of cars that [...]
