Month: February

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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Lot Shots Find of the Week: 1959 Meteor Ranchero??

A parking lot is a parking lot is a parking lot—unless it’s the Summit Racing parking lot. On any given day or time, the lot outside a Summit Racing store can turn into an impromptu mini car show, depending on who’s stopped by the store. Each Wednesday, we’ll share our parking lot find of the

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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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Mailbag: How to Adjust Your Existing Tires for Maximum Race Traction

You’ve got questions. We’ve got the answers—the Summit Racing tech department tackles your automotive-related conundrums. This week, we’re tuning tire pressure to track surface for maximum traction. G.L. Alamogordo, NM Q: I’ve noticed that tires have their maximum inflation pressures on the sidewall. I’ve also noticed it’s possible to attain better fuel mileage using higher

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