“What is that thing?” 

Mickey Thompson's 1988 obituaries duly document enough innovations and achievements for a dozen successful men, let alone a single career cut cruelly short by two killers who forced the wounded husband to watch Trudy Thompson's execution before finishing him off.

We’ve long wanted to do a piece on Porsche’s Experience Center (PEC) in Los Angeles and it just so happened that our good friend David Steele, Executive Director, American Hot Rod Foundation was given a ticket to ride by his lovely wife. Here’s what he thought of the Experience.

According to TerlinguaRacingTeam.com racing legend, Carroll Shelby and Dallas attorney Dave Witts, found themselves owning a small ghost town called Terlingua in Southwest Texas.

Ford’s Del Rio was a reasonably successful station wagon that sold 46,000 units compared to the Chevy Nomad at just 6,000 units.

88-year-old Big Daddy Don Garlits is known around the world for his tenacity and daring.

No sane person wakes up one day and says: “I think I am going to go race Pikes Peak,” but that’s exactly what Kash Singh did. Before Kash became an Enthusiast Marketing Manager at Ford Performance, he was a very active in the sport compact show scene.

I’m not sure they’re the answer to our environmental problems but I have to admit, I’m a total fan of electric cars. I also have to admit I was not a fan of the electric Mustang when it was revealed at the 2019 SEMA Show.

Let’s be honest, we love to watch the antics of the Street Outlaw crew. I personally feel it’s been one of the reasons drag racing has had a resurgence.

When the Great Book of Hot Rod History is written the name George Hurst will be right up there near the top.  Described by his one-time business partner Ed Almquist as “a womanizer, alcoholic and egomaniac,” George was equally “a mechanical genius, a promotional wizard and an optimist.”

In 2018, Luis Rodriguez won the inaugural Hot Wheels Legends Tour with his radical half-fighter plane, half car ‘2JetZ’ based on an original concept by Dwayne Vance.

Growing up near Southend, England, about 45 miles east of London, can be compared to growing up in Manhattan Beach, California, but only on the sunniest of days with sky of blue and sea of green. Mostly, the skies were gray as were English cars of the 50s and 60s.

When you think about it, a two-door wagon is a bit of a giant shrimp or some other ‘oxymoronic’ concept but nevertheless Ford’s Del Rio was a reasonably successful wagon that outsold the Chevy Nomad by almost 40,000 units (46,000 compared to just 6,000).

I’m not sure why anybody would think differently but the Los Angeles Times and several other publications recently headlined, “Classic Cars in ‘Ford v Ferrari’ aren’t what they seem….”

Introduced in 1964, the Pontiac GTO is generally regarded as the first real American muscle car. Of, course, it was preceded by cars such as the ’49 Olds Rocket, the ’55 Chrysler Hemi 300, the ’56 Plymouth Fury, the ’61 Chevy Impala Super Sport and the ’63 427 ci Mercury Marauder but nevertheless, the GTO is generally accepted as the first big-engined, mid-size car aggressively marketed to the youth sector.

Carroll Shelby and Shelby American:  In the 1960’s there was the Cobra, GT350, GT40, GT500, later the Series 1 and now modern versions of Shelby Mustangs which have become quite a legacy and story.

If you have ever built a project car, you know it’s not just about ordering parts from a website and installing them on the car. Now picture trying this in a faraway country where the car you are building wasn’t even sold.

Randy Winkle’s internationally acclaimed FamosoSpeedShop.com based in McFarland, CA, is known for its winning, period correct, nostalgia racecar builds and why not?

What began as a 1971 GT6 Mk III originally designed by Giovanni Michelotti has been chopped five inches and gone is the tiny 2.0L straight six that drove the rear wheels replaced by a twin-turbo…

The 1932 Ford V-8 was revolutionary in that the block was cast in one piece; however, it was not without problems, and it produced only 65 bhp.