Some people are walking automotive encyclopedias. They can look at a vehicle and quickly ascertain year, make, model—and probably a billion other facts, too. For others, it doesn’t come quite so easily. That’s why we’ve created Ride Guides, our series of infographics and posts designed to help you easily identify classic and performance vehicles. In this first
Race season seems a long way off here in the Midwest, but this weekend is the beginning of another NHRA Mello Yello Racing Series season. While many of us can’t exactly relate to the high-dollar operations of some of the teams gathering at the Winternationals in Southern California, a lot of us do enjoy watching the NHRA pros
On this day in 1965, the original Shelby GT350 debuted. The development of the 1965 Shelby GT350, a high performance variant of the Ford Mustang created by Carroll Shelby, is fairly well documented. When Ford decided it needed a racing version of its newly minted Mustang, it decided to homologate the Mustang for SCCA B/Production
In 1965, Chevrolet began offering the big block Chevy Mark IV—better known as the Rat. This wasn’t Chevy’s initial go-around with big block engines as its Gen. I W-series big blocks were first offered in 1958. However, the Mark IV engines (originally called Gen. II) improved upon the design of the original W-series engines and helped
It’s not as if Back to the Future, Part II was the film to introduce us to the concept of flying cars. We had the ConvairCar Model 118 in 1947. We had The Jetsons in the 1960s. We had Star Wars in the late-1970s. We had Blade Runner in the early 1980s. But the second
Legendary car collector Ron Pratte—who built most of his amazing collection through winning bids at Barrett-Jackson auctions—will sell off his entire collection of 142 vehicles and about 1,500 pieces of auto memorabilia at the Barrett-Jackson Scottsdale Auction in Arizona, beginning January 10. The entire collection could fetch more than $50 million, auction officials said. Pratte’s
The small block Chevy engine wasn’t the first V8 engine. Heck, it wasn’t even Chevrolet’s first V8 engine (Chevy’s “Series D” V8 engine was offered from 1917-’19). But it was THE V8 engine that changed everything–at least as far as hot rodders are concerned. This year is the 60th anniversary of the legendary small block Chevy
It’s a new year. But we haven’t forgotten about December. You shared your vehicles on Summit Racing’s Facebook page, and your engagement has determined the top Fan Rides. Here are the Top 10 rides that earned the most likes and shares on Summit Racing’s Facebook page and mobile app during the month of December. We
New year. New possibilities. The year 2014 was an eventful, newsy one in the automotive world, but here’s hoping 2015 is even more exciting. To keep your mind off those new year’s resolutions you’re probably going to break by this weekend, we’ve put together a little light reading on what we’re most excited to see in 2015.
Editor’s Note: The year 2014 gave us the introduction of the 707-horse Hellcat and the end of the popular fifth-generation Mustang. A sinkhole swallowed up a bunch of Corvettes, and then Mother Earth spit out some rare buried automotive treasure (sort of). At OnAllCylinders, we redesigned the website and welcomed an expanded cast of accomplished automotive writers to our team—all in
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