Darian Grubb is the crew chief for Stewart-Haas Racing. He is crew chief to NASCAR champion, Tony Stewart who drives the #14 Office Depot Old Spice Chevrolet Impala. Darian was born on the 9th of October, 1975 in the small town of Floyd in Virginia. It was in his teens that Darian got interested in [...]
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American performance and the V-8 engine are inextricably linked. Ever since the first mass-produced automobile V-8 was introduced by Cadillac in 1914, the V-8 has been the engine of choice for America’s most powerful vehicles—race cars, luxury cruisers, pick-up trucks, and SUVs. And every V-8 ever produced in the U.S. is [...]
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Hot rods have made legends, taking the spotlight in all aspects of the beach culture, in movies, and in music. They represent youth, rebellion, and a drive to do things a little differently. The hot rod movement has always been a grassroots, groundswell movement, an underground art form that defies a [...]
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Robert Moroso was a young NASCAR driver who was killed in a motor car accident just two days after his twenty second birthday on the 30th of September 1990. He was the second son of Dick Moroso, owner of Moroso Racing Inc. and former owner of Moroso Motorsports Park in Jupiter, Florida and, as is [...]
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Richard Allen Craven, Ricky as he is known, is a NASCAR driver who has won races in four different categories, the K & N Pro Series, the NASCAR Sprint Car Series, the NASCAR Nationwide Series and the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series. Ricky was born on the 24th of May, 1966 and was raised in [...]
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“The Gentleman Racer”, Pete Hamilton was born in the city of Newton, Massachusetts and was born on the 20th July 1942. He has always had a love of cars and this love was heightened when he started working in a service station after school when he was in the third grade at school. He first [...]
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“The Gunslinger”, Mike Skinner was born on the 28th June, 1957 in Susanville, California. His love of racing didn’t start in the same way as many NASCAR race car drivers who started driving go-karts at very young age. His beginnings were very different. Being a young teenager he was well known as being a pool [...]
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Lennie Pond is a former NASCAR race driver. He was born on the 11th of August 1940 in the small town of Ettrick in Chesterfield County, Virginia. He started his seventeen year NASCAR Sprint Cup Series career in 1969 when he made his debut in the American 500 at Rockingham Speedway on the 26th of [...]
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Sterling Marlin is one of the few remaining links to the colorful beginnings of NASCAR and the good ‘ole Southern boys who made the sport so vibrant and entertaining. Sterling was born on the 30th June 1957 in Columbia, Tennessee and is the only son of the late Coo Coo Marlin, former NASCAR driver who [...]
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This is a beautifully modified 1955 Ford Thunderbird that recently appeared on a Russo and Steele Auction site. The previous owner had restored 12 T-Birds of various ages and decided that it was time to create something unique with hot rod feel to it. As you can see by the picture the car has been [...]
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These are pictures from this year’s Greaserama, held on 3rd/4th September, that were taken by Meetzorp on Flickr. Greaserama was started in 2001 as an informal car show that coincided with a 2 day punk, surf and rockabilly show in Kansas City. The show was started with the aim of being a grass-roots type affair [...]
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This is a 1950 Mercury that has been built by Rick Dore to his usual extremely high standard. It is powered by a 350 cubic inch GM crate engine that is fitted to a GM 350 Turbo transmission. The chassis has been replaced with one from an Oldsmobile and it now utilizes a Full Air [...]
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This is a 1971 Chevrolet Chevelle that has been resto-modded by Marc Schiliro who decided that he wanted to build something that screamed for attention yet was a Chevelle to the core. He painted the car in Huggar Orange with a high gloss clear coat and white racing stripes which will make even the most [...]
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How to Build a Killer Street Machine gives you the knowledge necessary to build the ultimate multipurpose muscle car. There is much more to building a competent street machine than simply bolting on a bunch of cool-looking parts. You must carefully consider each components function and how it will impact the other choices you have [...]
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This is Chris Clark’s 1950 Chevrolet that was built several years ago with his long term mentor and friend Gene Winfield. Chris is an old school customizer that got the custom bug at just 9 years old when he helped his grand father rebuild a Model A. He has worked with many of the well [...]
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This is a 1970 Plymouth Barracuda build for Ted Hellard by Kevin Bradley of Kreations Auto Body. The car that they bought as the basis of the project was a long way from the show stopper you see now. It was acquired for $14,000 and was in a fairly poor state but after 16 months [...]
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