Warren Johnson is drag racing legend. During the 1990s, “the Professor” dominated the NHRA’s Pro Stock class, winning six world championships en route to 97 career wins. He was also the first driver to take a Pro Stock car past the 180-, 190-, and 200-miles-per-hour marks. In recent years, Johnson has scaled back his NHRA
Shaun Carnahan is the second-youngest of six boys. His father told him the same thing he told all of his sons growing up: “If you keep your nose clean, stay out of trouble, play sports, do good in school, and go to college, we will build a car and you will get to keep it.”
The rain clouds didn’t stop the set up for the 2015 Summit Racing Equipment Atlanta Motorama. A few million dollar cars, a bunch of custom hot rods and 12 BIGFOOT Monster trucks were already set up when we started our walk around the infield. There are over 150 vendors setting up to show
A note from BIGFOOT: I turned 40 this year. And I went through something of a midlife crisis. This is the third part of my story. You can read the first part here, and the second part here. … My adventure in Amish Country totally backfired. I may have looked svelte in all black, but even monster
We can’t all be walking automotive encyclopedias. But we can all read Ride Guides and learn a new thing or two. Ride Guides is our series of infographics and posts designed to better help you identify classic and performance vehicles. In our first installment, we showed you how to identify 1960-66 Chevrolet pickups. Then we
A note from BIGFOOT: I turned 40 this year. And I went through something of a midlife crisis. This is the second part of my story. You can read the first part here. … I tried all those other jobs because I just knew there had to be more to life than crushing cars and total
File this one under In Case You Missed It. A little over a year ago, a 20-year-old Romanian guy named Raul Oaida took on the task of building a functioning car almost entirely out of Lego blocks, designed by Steve Sammartino in Melbourne, Australia. And he did. It’s a lot nicer than the ones we
The 1970 Buick GSX. A product of one of the greatest muscle car years in American automotive history, the 1970 GSX offers everything a muscle car should—plus a little luxury, too. Sandwiched between General Motors’ 1960s ban on engines larger than 400 cubic inches and the stricter government and emissions regulations that came along in the 70s,
The champions are no more. The Yenko Nova came up short in its bid to repeat as Muscle Car Match-Ups champion. And the 2013 champion, the 1965 Shelby Cobra 427, failed to reclaim the title. That means there will be a brand new champion crowned in 2015. Vote now for your winner (you can see how here).
Don’t look now, but we may be headed for a killer final-round match-up between the winner of the first-ever Muscle Car Match-Ups in 2013 (the 1965 Shelby Cobra 427), and last year’s winner, the 1969 Chevy Yenko 427 Nova. Rad. But we’re getting ahead of ourselves, because there are a couple cars that still want
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