John T. Francis was 7 years old the first time he saw the Pocket Rocket blast down Thompson Drag Raceway. He will never forget it, he said. “It didn’t make any noise when it was sitting at the line,” Francis said. “It was so small. And so fast.” Francis was sitting at his computer one
The Chinese calendar says 2013 is the Year of the Snake. So do you—at least according to the results of our inaugural Muscle Car Match-Ups tournament. You’ve voted and made the 1965 Shelby Cobra 427 the first-ever Muscle Car Match-Ups champion. The Cobra overcame incredible odds to earn the championship, including near exclusion from the original field of
This is it: the final round of our inaugural Muscle Car Match-Ups. It’s sort of a red-letter day for OnAllCylinders. Or maybe we should call it a Blue Oval Day, since we’ve arrived at a final round battle between the 1969 Mustang Boss 429 and the 1965 Shelby Cobra 427. The semi-finals pitted these two
According to the sports honks at CBS, the “Road to the Final Four” leads to Atlanta for this year’s NCAA basketball championship game. However, you’ve made it perfectly clear that your pathway to the final four begins and ends in Detroit, MI and is crammed with vintage Chargers, HEMI ‘Cudas, Boss 429s, and Shelby Cobras. After two rounds of the
By our count, Oldsmobile made around 700,000 Aleros. But there will only be one SUPERBalero! OnAllCylinders’ first-ever project build, the SUPERBalero was born from a recent post about the top vehicle brands our readers would like to resurrect. You rightly included Plymouth and Oldsmobile on the list, and the idea was hatched: a project vehicle that
It wasn’t exactly Florida Gulf Coast University over Georgetown, but some of us raised our eyebrows when, per your votes, the 1970 Buick GSX took out the venerable 1969 Chevy Camaro Z/28 in the first round of Muscle Car Match-Ups. Despite legions of Mopar enthusiasts interacting with OnAllCylinders’ and Summit Racing’s Facebook accounts—and some protesting
[portfolio_slideshow id=16163] Take a look at some of the gems we spotted at the Piston Powered AutoRama in Cleveland, OH this past weekend. We saw race cars, muscle cars, hot rods, customs, monster trucks, aircraft, custom choppers, military vehicles, and much more—a little something for everyone. Scroll through the slideshow and see for yourself.
[portfolio_slideshow id=16090] College basketball’s March Madness is upon us. Chances are you either: A) can’t wait to fill out multiple brackets, B) have grown tired of losing to the guy who fills in the brackets according to school colors, or C) just don’t care about basketball. Love it, hate it, or indifferent, filling out tournament brackets
[portfolio_slideshow id=15461] “Neither snow nor rain nor smoky burnouts nor heavy exhaust fumes stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds.” OK—maybe we paraphrased a tad, but the powers-that-be at the United States Postal Service must have had octane on the brain recently—and we mean that in a good way. The USPS
It’s not too late to send a Valentine’s Day card to your loved ones. Actually, waiting until the last minute was the best thing you could have possibly done. That’s because the folks at Summit Racing Equipment have created an assortment of online automotive- and powersports-related Valentines that may be just your speed. Check ’em
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