GALLERY: Friday and Saturday at Thompson World Series
It has already been a busy weekend at Thompson Speedway Motorsports Park as the first two days of the Sunoco World Series are in the books. Night One featured the Granite State Pro Stock Series, Late...
View ArticleThe PerTronix Ignitor III turns your Delco tach-drive distributor into a...
Classic Delco distributors are among the most rugged domestic distributors ever done. We’re rebuilding a cast-iron tach-drive distributor from a small-block Chevy. However, this tutorial applies to...
View ArticleYour Call: Anderson Speedway Figure 8 Mayhem
It’s time to bring you another wild YouTube video from the world of short track racing. Although this may not be your typical short track race, this Outlaw Figure 8 race at Anderson (IN) Speedway is...
View ArticleTurn One’s Versatile Performance Plus Steering Box
What it is: Turn One’s Performance steering box. Why you care: Turn One’s new Performance steering box is ideally suited for street cars that occasionally see some track use. Each gearbox weighs about...
View ArticleReader’s Ride: 1971 Camaro
When I was 16 I had a 1970 1/2 RS that cost me my license. Thirty-seven years later, I bought a 1971 Camaro in 2011 that I thought was in good shape. Wrong. After I had the paint removed I found both...
View ArticleSomething (Week To) Wicked This Way Comes: The LMC Truck C10 Nationals Week...
For its third trip down Week To Wicked Lane, Classic Trucks Magazine has teamed up with the LMC Truck C10 Nationals to build its second five-day C10—this time around, a shapely 1985 square body, which...
View ArticleThe Weeks Leading Up to the LMC C10 Nationals Week to Wicked Square Body Build
With the exception of all three Week to Wicked projects that Classic Trucks has undertaken being of Chevrolet origin, each one has had its own backstory and subsequent purpose: our 1972 C10 was a...
View ArticleVintage Photos of the Corvette that Never Was
The key to unearthing gems from the Petersen Publishing photo archive is knowing how to navigate the archive’s logbooks. The loose-leaf binders hold a chronological record of all the film that passed...
View ArticleQA1 Expands Hot Rod Series Shock Line
What it is: Hot Rod Series Shocks from QA1. Why you care: QA1 introduces its newest series of Hot Rod shocks that provide a traditional, show-quality look matched with modern performance. Car...
View ArticleChip Foose’s SEMA Build
Design visionary Chip Foose in collaboration with Magnaflow will be bringing a bit of a different build to SEMA 2017 in the form of a period correct 1932 Ford hot rod. The only details we know thus far...
View ArticleThe LMC C10 Nationals Week to Wicked: In Full Suspension
Say what you will about the OE 1973-1987 Chevy/GM half-ton front suspension—but when it comes to removing it in its entirety, nothing beats it! General Motors designers definitely had us in mind when...
View ArticleJeff Lutz Crash
This past Sunday, Jeff Lutz was at Memphis International Raceway for the filming of a TV show when he crashed his recently-built 1957 Chevrolet into the wall. After a hard launch, the car slowly shifts...
View ArticleRecap: Formula Drift Irwindale 2017
This past weekend was one of lasts. Not only was it the last round of the 2017 Formula Drift championship but the last time that the Irwindale Event Center will host the event. For years rumors of the...
View ArticleGALLERY: Whelen Mods, ISMA, NEMA and more from Sunday at Thompson
A weekend full of big wins and Championship implications came to a close Sunday on day three of the Thompson Speedway Motorsports Park Sunoco World Series. The final day featured the Whelen Mods, ISMA...
View Article8-Second Hellcat Challenger!!!
We have a first, ladies and gentlemen! On Monday, October 16, Leon Epling, owner of Epling garage in Bean Station, Tennessee, took his 2015 Dodge Challenger Hellcat and clawed his way into the 8s! Not...
View ArticleThe LMC Truck C10 Nationals Week To Wicked: Day 2 Wrap-Up
Day 2 has come and gone on the LMC Truck C10 Nationals Week to Wicked Presented by Classic Trucks, and despite the 1985 Chevy short-wide still being up in the air not looking much different than she...
View ArticleThe Winchester 400: One of Pavement Racing’s REALLY BIG Shows
Photos by David Sink and author Its linage goes back about 105 years, making Winchester Speedway the second oldest oval track in the nation. The track that is the oldest? Well, that would be another...
View Article1957 Corvette Really Found in a Barn!
“She opened up the barn doors and it was laying there,” Matt Barczak said. He shouldn’t have been surprised. After all, he had heard about this 1957 Corvette for almost his entire life. “I was waiting...
View ArticleThis “Replacement Ride” Rocks!
Some folks adopt the old truck hobby late in life while others were born into it. Larry Stewart, from Panama City, Florida, smiles when he describes his early automotive experience that revolved around...
View ArticleA 1958 Fairlane With a Shot of Shelby Venom
Five miles north of the Canadian border, you’ll find one of the best-looking—and toughest—street cruisers around. Back in 2013, Mike Falconer of Langley, British Columbia, had been looking for a 1962...
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