Wouldn’t it be nice to buy a brand new old car? Well, if you are a Mustang enthusiast with money burning holes in your pockets, it’s your lucky day! There is a seller on eBay that had apparently bought some special edition Mustangs back around Y2K and is now selling a couple of them. Yesterday’s listing was a 2000 Mustang SVT Cobra R with 11 miles. It was clearly bought as an investment because it has “No Pre-Delivery Inspection” written all over it. This means that all the plastic crap was left on it from when it was shipped to the dealer, and a technician didn’t go through it to test everything out and top off all the fluids. No big deal, I’m sure the car is juuuust fine without it. The real beauty is the fantastically simple combination of big V8, light car, manual transmission, and rear wheel drive. From the factory, they had 385 horsepower on tap, 6 gears, and 265/40/18′s gluing you to the ground. They also only made 300 of them this year, so it’s a rare bird to say the least. The eBay price on this car was $70,000, which is honestly not much above the original purchase price of $54,995. Sadly, it looks like the listing was ended early after receiving offers everywhere from $1 to $60,500. » Continue reading more of this post…
Turning in a time of 48.364 at 186.089 MPH Dale Earhardt Jr. turned in the fastest qualifying lap earning himself the top spot on the pole of the 53rd Daytona 500
If one things for certain Dale Jr is a force to be reckoned with on the super speedways. He ran well during the Bud Shootout on Saturday night until Carl Edwards bumped him from behind sending him into the fence and putting an early end to his night. » Continue reading more of this post…
When you weren’t paying attention, somebody awesome at Cadillac decided that a CTS-V Wagon was something that the world desperately needed. Rear wheel drive, 550 horsepower, 550 foot pounds of torque, supercharged, a 6 speed manual transmission option, 19 inch polished aluminum wheels, and brakes that will stop you so fast that your tongue will stick out. Gosh I love America. » Continue reading more of this post…
Gone from the 2011 Nascar Sprint Cup series is the catch can man, and in are new ventilated fuel filler cans that will hold the new E15 ethanol based gas that the Sprint Cup drivers will be using to power their cup cars for the new season.
This is where things are going to get interesting.In the past the job of the catch can man was not only to catch the gas coming out of the car when the tank was full,but also to adjust the right height of the rear of the car as it pitted, if adjustments needed to be made.
In the past the gas guy was always done fueling the car before the tire changers were done with their job, but with the new ventilated gas can it has many more parts to it that is hard to line up correctly slowing down the gas guys job, so now the tire changers are going to be done while the car is still getting fueled up, and if that isn’t enough to turn things around in the past the team would weigh what was left in the gas can and also what was in the catch can to determine how much gas actually made it into the tank of the car. With the new can you pretty much are going to have the can to deal with. » Continue reading more of this post…
It was only a matter of time before somebody decided that they could drive their BMW with their cell phone. Honestly, I think it is fantastic that these two guys took on this challenge and successfully did it. They are clearly pretty clever when it comes to electronics. I think I would enjoy the radio controlled car more than the real one though. I mean let’s be honest; what the heck do you do with it now? Got ideas? Post em up!
Volkswagen owners are typically quite dedicated to their brand. Getting them to switch brands is usually tough, and often impossible. Matt A. is clearly not a typical VW owner though, because, he didn’t seem to think twice about it. Maybe it was all of the fire that made his decision easier….
Anyway…. one day a few years ago, Matt noticed a 1987 BMW 325i sitting at a friends shop. It had been there quite a while and the owner of it didn’t seem too enthusiastic about fixing its mysterious electrical problem. Matt inquired about it, and bought it with a devilish 4G63-inspired plan in mind. » Continue reading more of this post…
Tomorrow we’ll learn what the gigantic snail under the hood is all about, how a T56 bolted into it, and the most important question of all….. “just how many engines have been blown up in this car in the last 365 days?”
