Happy Birthday to the greatest nation on Earth! Who has it better than the U.S.? Nobody! Today, I am celebrating with an All-American restomod in the Mopar category. At the risk of sounding like a name-dropper, here is a brief history of this neck snapping resto. It was built by Gas Monkey Garage for an episode of Roadkill. Later, it was found for sale on eBay by a fellow named Chris Ashton from Ruffian Cars. Chris, a premier builder in his own right, purchased the old girl and followed up with a few of his special touches in an effort Read More
With today’s ever tightening environmental mandates and electric vehicle trends, it seems that the sun may be setting on the day of the manual transmission. On the dragstrip, automatic transmissions are just plain faster. On the street, stick shifts can be clunky and inconvenient. Nevertheless, there’s something nostalgic about a sports car with a manual gearbox. It feels a lot like freedom. Top Gear located two premier sports cars that utilize manual transmissions and put them through a bit of a celebratory test. The lucky drivers are Top Gear Editor-in-Chief Jack Rix and Deputy Editor Ollie Kew. Nothing special about Read More
Summer’s here and the time is right for racing in these streets – of Mexico! The backdrop is a four-lane divided highway. Traffic is light. Tonight’s action kicks-off with multiple hits between a twin turbo Cadillac CTS-V and a Whipple supercharged Ford Mustang GT. The Caddy has been upgraded with an engine swap and a twin turbo setup. Digging hard under the hood is a 7.0-liter LSX motor. That’s an all-aluminum (block and heads) V8 with a dry sump lubrication setup. The turbochargers are Precision 6266 with a fat intercooler and all the bells and whistles. The Mustang is outfitted Read More
Even in Shady Corners (North Carolina) it’s hot as a witch’s navel. That ain’t climate change, it’s called summertime down South where No Prep warriors are gathering to do battle. This is the King of the South, and the prize money is posted at $50K. That’ll put some lead in your pencil. The Patriot Camaro was on hand with his 959 cubic-inch Musi built big block. This beast is loaded with four kits of nitrous, and he’s all wrapped up for the Fourth of July. We ran into the MMR Mustang. He’s running a billet 351 cubic-inch Coyote motor with Read More
Cramming big modern horsepower into vintage coupes is as American as apple pie. Call it a restomod. Call it a retrofit. Call it anything you like – just as long as you do it right and drive it fast. Get a load of this rolling work of art. It all begins with a 1991 Ford Mustang Fox Body. The conventional deck lid makes it a notchback. This was a relatively lightweight, rear-wheel drive coupe. Although the engine was unimpressive, the rolling chassis was right for hot rodding. At the heart of this build is the Ford supercharged 4.6-liter Terminator engine. Read More
Getting back to the streets (of Mexico), we encounter a raucous band of roll racers making ready to rumble. Here we have an eclectic mix of import and domestic vehicles fueled-up and tuned for the throwdown. Enjoy the action. The first contest of the evening is between a pair of modified street stallions. In the right lane is the Chevrolet Corvette ZR1. That blue and silver badge is unmistakable. The ZR1 moniker represents pure performance. This C6 version features an implanted 7.0-liter LS V8 with upgraded cylinder heads and a high-performance thump stick (camshaft). The ported blower is a Magnuson Read More
Attention gearheads; let me introduce you to Specialty Vehicle Engineering (SVE). These guys have been building specialty vehicles for GM for more than thirty-years. As the leading supplier of GM specialty vehicles, SVE has produced more than 65,000 cars, trucks and SUVs. They are in production on the current generation of Yenko supercars. That’s what we are here to talk about, today. Specifically, the 2024 Chevrolet Yenko/SC Camaro Stage III. Offered in three distinctive packages (Stage I, Stage II or Stage III), the Yenko/SC is based off the Camaro SS 1LE format. In addition to the powerful supercharged engine, the Read More
When a “pop-up” street race rears its head on an early summer night, the crew at Street Racing Channel are thrown into action. In full disclosure, the SRC has never turned down a street race, but it’s been a minute since these guys had a chance to show out on the blacktop. Billy TH3 KID is on hand in his square body Chevy S-10 pickup. This thing is a rocket with a twin turbo small block (and nitrous). It’s making some serious power for the street. Billy draws a late model S-10 in the first round. With the Old Man Read More
