News & Car Culture

Winter Games (Event #5) Figure Skating — Most Unique Vehicle Design

Figure skating. Pretty popular Olympic event among the hot rod and muscle car crowds. Second only to ice dancing, we hear. In addition to the pure adrenaline rush we all feel watching triple salchows and double toe loops, we also always get a charge out of the hot-rod attitude we see in figure-skating outfits. Unique

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Presidents Day Quiz: Match the Presidents to their Personal Rides

OK, this isn’t really a quiz as much as it is a game. Just think of it as an extension of all the parades and fun and partying you’ve probably been enjoying as part of Presidents Day. After all, this holiday ranks right up there–with Arbor Day and Columbus Day. Then again, Presidents Day would

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15 Gearhead Greeting Cards for Valentine’s Day!

Roses are red. Violets are blue. Here’s some Valentine greetings ‘n’ junk for car people. Yeah, we’ve never been very good at poetry, and we’re sure not much for sappy greeting card messages either. That’s why OAC contributor Lori Sams created these sharable gearhead greetings for Valentine’s Day. They just might be the best love notes

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Winter Games (Event #4): Luge – Best Road Race Vehicle

We like speed. We like danger. We like Luge. It’s just that we’d make a few minor changes if we were in charge. For example, no more ice—we’re done with the snow and ice. And we wouldn’t lay down either. No way. Not manly enough. Instead, we’d straddle a huge piston-pumping rocket. Of course, we’d use pistons in place

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Winter Games (Event #3): Cross-Country Skiing – Best Road Trip Vehicle

  If getting there is half the fun, then not all road-trip vehicles are created equal. [pullquote align=”left|center|right” textalign=”left|center|right” width=”100%”] Rusty Griswold: “Dad, this is not the car you ordered!” Clark Griswold: “Settle down, Russ. Let me handle this. Ed, uh… this is not the car I ordered. I distinctly ordered the Antarctic Blue Super

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Sinkhole in Kentucky Swallows 8 Corvettes at Corvette Museum

A sinkhole opened up without warning inside the National Corvette Museum Wednesday, and eight Chevrolet Corvettes fell into it. According to reports, six of the eight were donated to the museum by Corvette enthusiasts, and two are owned by General Motors. From Bangshift: “It is with heavy hearts that we report that eight Corvettes were affected

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Winter Games (Event #2): Short Track – Best Drag Race Vehicle

Unless you like dudes in unitards chasing each other around in a circle, we think you’ll find the OnAllCylinders Winter Games version of short track more your speed. And when we say speed, we mean 6-second nostalgia Funny Cars, old-school cool Gassers, and late-model drag machines battling pass-for-pass for straight-line supremacy. While Sochi’s version of

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Winter Games (Event #1): Alpine Skiing – Best Handling Vehicle

What is the best-handling car on the planet? There are many ways to think about this. We settled on rally cars,and chose five that dominate that brand of racing, which we believe to be among the most-dangerous and daring anywhere in the world. With the more-famous Winter Games taking place in Sochi, Russia, we wanted

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