Pro Stock and Pro Mod race car driver and engine tuner Joe Lepone Jr. passed away Sunday after a long battle with cancer. Lepone Jr. was Summit Racing’s first-sponsored NHRA Pro Stock driver, piloting the Summit Racing Chevy Beretta from 1990-’92. Lepone Jr. has been heavily involved with drag racing throughout his entire adult life,
They built it to be the world’s fastest wheel-driven car—ever. No rockets. No jet propulsion. Just good old-fashioned, turbocharged American muscle. The Carbinite LSR streamliner looks more like a fighter jet than a typical car, but that happens when you’re building and shaping a Bonneville land speed car designed to go 500 miles per hour.
Look up the term “muscle car” in the dictionary, and you just might see the second generation (1968-72) Chevrolet Chevelle as the illustration. But which year? The purpose of this edition of Ride Guides is to help you pinpoint the model year of one of America’s favorite muscle cars. Although there are two basic body designs that make up
The 2017 Mercedes-Benz E-Class sedan won’t be unveiled officially until January, but the company showed off a camouflaged prototype at a Technology Day briefing in Germany yesterday. Needless to say, Mercedes-Benz vehicles aren’t exactly in our traditional wheelhouse here at OnAllCylinders, but the new E-Class could offer a preview of what’s to come for all vehicles in
BIGFOOT 4X4 is relocating its headquarters from Hazelwood, MO—a St. Louis suburb—to Pacific, MO about 35 miles southwest of its current home. BIGFOOT officials plan to close on the purchase of the new property and the sale of the old one in August. BIGFOOT will then have four months to complete the move, the company
Greg Anderson has returned to championship form one year removed from heart surgery, winning his fourth Pro Stock victory of 2015 at his sponsor’s race—the Summit Racing Equipment NHRA Nationals in Norwalk, OH. Doug Kalitta in Top Fuel, Jack Beckman in Funny Car, and Karen Stoffer in Pro Stock Motorcycle were also winners Sunday at
Most of us had never seen anything like it. It was part sports car, part spaceship, backing out of the trailer onto the Twin Pines Mall parking lot in the middle of night. There was an aura of magic about the entire scene because we knew this was the big time machine reveal and because some of us
EDITOR’S NOTE: What are the top high performance automotive parts of all time? Or in this case, what are the Top 20 most iconic parts that changed hot rodding? We’re talking total game-changers in the annals of our hobby. We asked a panel of OnAllCylinders staffers, longtime automotive journalists, and veteran members of the Summit Racing technical and marketing
EDITOR’S NOTE: What are the top high performance automotive parts of all time? Or in this case, what are the Top 20 most iconic parts that changed hot rodding? We’re talking total game-changers in the annals of our hobby. We asked a panel of OnAllCylinders staffers, longtime automotive journalists, and veteran members of the Summit Racing technical and marketing
Mopar unveiled two new Dodge Challenger Drag Pak options Friday in a move that harkens back to Detroit’s muscle car wars of old, setting the stage for these powerful Chryslers to battle Ford Mustang Cobra Jets and Chevy COPO Camaros at drag strips everywhere. For the first time, Dodge is offering a supercharged 5.8L HEMI V8
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