They said it was a portal into the past and whoever they are, they were right.

Nobody said it was easy. If it was we’d all have a red hat and we don’t. Despite 48 land speed records falling like coconuts at the recent Bonneville World Finals, for every success story there was an equivalent tale of woe.

The Holley Moparty had all the hype and buzz you would expect of a major national event.

The first ever-recorded organized drag races were held at Goleta, a small airport 100 miles north of Los Angeles, now known as Santa Barbara Airport.

Nine months into 2020 and we only just got to see our favorite stars of the Formula Drift (FD) PRO Championship in action.

The 98th running of The Broadmoor Pikes Peak International Hill Climb was a very different event this year. Unfortunately, the Covid-19 pandemic had its affect and the entry list was well depleted compared to normal years when there are typically more than 130 entrants.

It’s hard to believe that some of the world’s most famous races are now more than 100 years old. The first ever Grand Prix was held in France in 1906, the first Indy 500 was in 1911 and the first Pikes Peak International Hill Climb was in 1916.

How hard can it be? Forty-six square miles of empty white space—who can’t go fast? It’s not that easy. Bonneville is a tough, unforgiving place to race. Take, for example 72-year-old George Poteet, he’s been chasing land speed records for years.

It wasn’t the ideal beginning for Santa Pod Raceway’s hastily arranged Nostalgia Drags when the police rolled up on the Saturday morning of the two-day affair to inquire as to why the race was being held with paying customers on hand when many other outside events throughout the UK—motor racing, horse racing and concerts, to name a few—have either been set aside or enacted behind closed doors.

I am a very lucky person I’ve been to the Promised Land, not once but every year for over two decades. Each November the world, well the automotive world makes a pilgrimage to Las Vegas for the annual SEMA Show. Established in 1967, SEMA has grown into one of the largest trade shows in the world.

It’s hot man, damn hot and humid, humid as all heck but if you enjoy quarter-mile drag racing as it used to be the Holley National Hot Rod Reunion (NHRR) is the place to be if you want to see AA/Fuel Altereds Gassers, Nostalgia Pro Stock as well as nitro-powered Nostalgia Top Fuel and Funny Car.

Beach racing began at Daytona/Ormond Beach, Florida, in 1903 when wealthy vacationers raced the 500 feet wide, 27-mile long beach.

TorqTalk.com was back on track for the first time recently with an invitation from 'Mr. Cobra' Lynn Park to attend the annual Cobra Owners Club of America track day at Willow Springs, CA. Jokingly referred to as "Taking a Bite out of the Coronavirus," the private event attracted about 100 Cobras, GT40s and Mustangs for a great day at the track.

Picture this, you’re sitting in a huge amphitheater with hundreds of people listening to what sounds like yodeling. You can only make out a few words, one thousand, fifteen hundred, two thousand.

The very first nostalgia drag race was 40 years ago when drag racing was itself only 30 years old. It started in 1979 when Tom Prufer rented the San Francisco Bay Area’s Fremont Raceway so that he and his friends could go race with minimal rules for maximum fun. Sixty cars and 300 spectators turned up.

If you’re into travel and indoor car shows then we suggest you put the annual Salon Retromobile on your bucket list. It happens every February in Paris, France, so there’s one reason to go even though Paris can be pretty wintery that time of year it is still the ‘City of Lights’ and rarely fails to deliver.

Inheriting a house that needs work is tough, inheriting a 12,000-acre estate with a house that was built circa 1600 and hundreds of staff is not something to wish on anybody but such was the lot of Charles, 11th Duke of Richmond. Charles, who trained as a photographer inherited Goodwood and the monumental task of maintaining what is essentially a British national treasure in the early 1990s.

It seems that after the recent pandemic checking events off your bucket list has become more important than ever. If there is one thing we learned it is that life is short and unpredictable so you might as well do it now.