Summit Racing has been a major supporter of drag racing going way back. Since the mid-1980s, the company has sponsored race cars, national drag races, and entire sportsman series for the NHRA, IHRA, and other race circuits. Now, Summit Racing is expanding its support to a brand new continent–Australia. The company has announced its sponsorship of the
Corky Coker is the current face of Coker Tire Company, but Harold Coker was the man who started it all. Harold Coker, an avid antique and collector car enthusiast, founded Coker Tire in 1958. Harold Coker’s struggle to find the correct tires for vintage cars originally led him to the concept of producing and
[portfolio_slideshow id=36110] At long last, Ford has finally unveiled its new Shelby GT350. Billed as an “all day track car that’s also street-legal,” the new Shelby GT350 features a naturally aspirated 5.2L V8, which Ford says is its most powerful naturally aspirated production engine ever. In a press release highlighting the new Shelby, Ford says
Erica Enders-Stevens became the first woman to win an NHRA Pro Stock world championship title Sunday when she defeated her closest points rival—Summit Racing’s Jason Line—in the final round of the Auto Club NHRA Finals. In other racing, Matt Hagan claimed the Funny Car world championship in dramatic fashion over John Force and also won
Ford Motor Co. has released another video teasing its newest high performance Mustang to be unveiled November 17. Speculation throughout the industry is that Ford is going to introduce a brand new 2016 Mustang GT350 powered by an updated version of the 5.8-liter supercharged V8 currently powering the 662-horsepower Shelby GT500. We’ll find out soon
The SEMA Show has been considered somewhat of a barometer for automotive performance. Problem is the SEMA Show is so large, spotting trends is kind of like trying to see the forest through the proverbial trees. Except at SEMA, the trees are long-legged models handing out posters of themselves. We navigated through the forest of aftermarket goodness in
A very happy birthday to the General Lee. OK, so technically the General Lee’s birthday occurred sometime in 1969 since the General was a 1969 Dodge Charger. However, on this day in 1978, a stuntman on the set of The Dukes of Hazzard launched the show’s iconic ’69 Charger off a makeshift dirt ramp, over a
LAS VEGAS, NV – The hottest new car for 2015 drew the lion’s share of attention from aftermarket performance parts makers at the 2014 SEMA Show, including AIRAID, which introduced a new cold air intake kit for both the 2.3L EcoBoost and 5.0L Coyote engines powering the new Ford Mustang. AIRAID has created a complete
LAS VEGAS, NV — Among the sea of new products introduced at the 2014 SEMA Show, was the new Six-Link System for Mopar A-Bodies from QA1 Precision Products–a bolt-in suspension system which replaces the factory leaf springs in Pro Touring and street cars. The kits include QA1’s brand-new four-way adjustable shocks and a sway bar, Panhard
LAS VEGAS, NV — What’s going on outside of Detroit? In addition to checking out the press conferences from the Big Three at SEMA, we also did a walk-by of some of the other major manufacturers. A trip around the world, so to speak. We saw a sea of Honda Fits and some interesting truck concepts
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