Father's Day

Fathers Day Gift Guide: 9 Great Gifts For Pontiac Dads

Do you know a dad who loves Pontiac? Us too. This is important because Father’s Day is coming and dads are notoriously hard to shop for. What they probably want is a ’66 GTO or a ’77 Smokey and the Bandit Trans Am, and those are not in your budget. We get it. The next-best

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Building a Car with Dad – Father’s Day Father-Son Builds

The car that’s built is the most special kind of car. Especially the car that was built with Dad. You calloused your hands, bloodied your knuckles, wrenched to exhaustion, and learned lifelong lessons during those invaluable hours. Today, we celebrate Father’s Day with these special Father/Son builds shared by fans of the Summit Racing Facebook

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10 Great Father’s Day Gifts for Gearheads Under $50

We can memorize engine firing orders but forget important dates. So in case you’ve forgotten, Father’s Day is rapidly approaching. That means it’s time to do a little shopping—a more-unpleasant prospect than tearing down a seized-up engine. In an effort to make Father’s Day gift buying a little more tolerable, we’ve done two things. We compiled

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A Father’s Day (Gift) Guide to Savings

With Father’s Day fast approaching, it’s time once again to buy one of the trickiest gifts we give all year. We can’t help you with the tricky business of choosing the perfect gifts for the fathers in your life, but maybe we can help you save a little money in the process. Our friends at

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The Essential Dad’s Day Guide to Hot Rod Apparel

If you’re reading this, chances are you either: A) Are a dad, B) Have a dad, or C) Know someone who is a dad. And you know that, traditionally, dads have gotten a bad rap about their apparel. Frankly, we bear that cross because of a few bad apples–apples dressed in cut-off jorts, undersized, grease-stained

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Like Father, Like Son, Like Car: Father-Son Builds

Everyone’s heart strings are tugged by different things. Maybe you have a soft spot for cute puppies, Nicholas Sparks novels, or sappy love songs. Us? We’re moved by great father-son stuff. Our friends at Summit Racing asked you to share some of the project vehicles put together by father-son tandems. And, as always, you guys

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Father’s Day Gift Guide: The 12 Tools Every Gearhead Dad Should Own

There are a few unequivocal, undebatable facts of the gearhead universe: If you wear a white T-shirt, grease will always find it. There’s no such thing as a “finished” project car. Car guys love tools. While we don’t have scientific evidence to support those first two assertions, we do have proof that car guys love

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The Top 10 Families—and Fathers—in Racing

Father’s Day gets us thinking about dads. Writing about cars gets us thinking about racing. So it was only a matter of time before we started thinking about dads in racing. And think about it, we did. Who are the best father-son (or in the case of the Forces, the best father-daughter) tandems or groups

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