It’s not an exaggeration to say that the Lotus Elise is the most important car in the company’s recent history; after all, Lotus officials themselves said as much in this documentary that details the...
It’s no secret that we’re losing dragstrips all across this great land. Why is that? Land values increasing? Housing developments being allowed to go up near tracks? People less interested in drag ra...
This year marks the centennial of Checker Taxi — the cab company, not the manufacturing company. It’s a little confusing, but the Internet Checker Taxicab Archive lays out the history of how Checker ...
If you’re here, we don’t have to convince you that the first-gen Funny Car era was one of the coolest, if not craziest, in drag racing history. Social media is chock-full of great old photos and some...
Read enough about Wendell Scott and you’ll inevitably see somebody compare him to Jackie Robinson. Both men did indeed break the color barriers in their respective sports, but they did so through ent...
The day following the close of SEMA, the FLGNTLT crew made a stop by the StanceWorks shop to see the happenings behind our Californian shop doors. Check out Part 1 of 2, released this morning, as par...
In the years since his death, Fred Rogers has been hailed as a champion for educational television, a practitioner of radical kindness and acceptance, and a balm for the ills of our modern world. He ...
This week’s newsletter theme is all about “back to basics.” We think it’s a good idea to dust this off every now and again. After all, it’s great to really push the limits of what we all consider “Mu...
Yes, Phil Hill became the first American to win the Formula One world championship driving for Ferrari in 1961. Yes, he had a spectacular racing career and became a world-class auto restorer followin...
If you’re a gearhead with an internet connection, there’s a good chance you’ve seen this video before. But don’t let that stop you from reveling in its wavy analog goodness once more. And if you have...
How did Australia come to give the world the ute? As Unique Cars pointed out this week, there’s two conflicting reports on the origins of the coupe utility, and naturally, both Ford and Holden vie fo...
This week, we’re all fixated on AMC muscle. They’re some of the most oft-overlooked cars of those glorious early muscle years, and we wholly dig it. And, so did land-speed racer Craig Breedlove, appa...
It's always a treat to find a new email in my inbox from Tim Hahne, the director responsible for Adrenalin, the BMW Touring Car Story, as well as No Limits, the story of Alex Zanardi's return to raci...
If you either poke around on YouTube enough or have a Millennial living under your roof, chances are good that you’ve at least heard of Ken Block, of the Kingdom of Hoon and the Seer of Gymkhana. Now...
In researching the first Peking to Paris race, we of course came across plenty of mentions of the more recent tributes to the original, including this documentary following the route and participants...
Mac’s Motor City Garage recently wrote up a good primer on the Turbo Titan III, GM’s turbine-powered experimental semi. All through the 1950s, General Motors held high hopes for the gas turbine engin...
By the time you read this, our own Quain Stott and his epic Southeast Gassers Association will have made their prime-time cable debut on Discovery’s “Moonshiners.” Full disclosure: since we write the...
Images are courtesy of Honda. Dateline, Chicago Auto Show, February 1989: A few booths away from where Mazda was introducing the future of the classic British roadster sat Honda’s answer to the raref...
This past week, as Japanese Nostalgic Car noted, marked the 50th anniversary of Nissan’s GT-R, the sedan with the heart of a race car, designed by Prince engineers working within the company. What re...
If you’re a regular getter and reader of the Muscle Machines weekly newsletter, you no doubt jumped in on (if not were entertained by) the discussion around the factory muscle that was heaped upon us...
Front-wheel drive had been done before, of course. Even the transverse engine front-wheel-drive layout predated the Mini. However, as this 1961 BMC video via British Pathe notes, Alec Issigonis’ triu...
This week, we’re donning the leather-elbowed cardigan, sitting down by the fireplace, lighting a pipe and getting all existential about…NASCAR. That’s right: we’re gonna go deep on the topic of “What...
After this week’s story on the Boyle Racing Team, we’re still in Indy mode, so let’s watch a race. While Terry Shea detailed the story of the turbine cars at the 1968 Indianapolis 500 last May, those...
After this week’s story on the Boyle Racing Team, we’re still in Indy mode, so let’s watch a race. While Terry Shea detailed the story of the turbine cars at the 1968 Indianapolis 500 last May, those...
Starting in the late Sixties, Seattle City Light began an electric vehicle program to try to get the city and the city’s residents to switch from their internal combustion vehicles. According to Seat...