Racing
Redneck Monday Returns! 3 Fat Guys in a Beetle
On a recent trip to the Texas Motor Speedway, I had the opportunity to drive some really cool cars on the infield road course including the 2013 Viper GTS, the 2013 Mustang GT500 and the Mercedes Benz C63 AMG, but the highlight of the day was the 2013 Volkwagon Beetle convertible. Seems strange that I [...]
Redneck Monday: How to Sink A $45-Thousand Dollar Ford Raptor to the Frame
So Ford gave me a 2013 Raptor to play with for a week. I have been waiting for a while to get my greasy hands on one of these bad boys and finally I get one. We had plans to take it out to the sand dunes at Little Sahara in Waynoka, OK, but an [...]
Are you ready to “Control the Road”?
I had a chance to spend some time with the Lakewood crew at the 2012 SEMA show in November. This year, Lakewood is launching a complete bolt-on suspension system for late model Ford Mustangs. The kits are true bolt-ons, and driven back to back, you can really feel a difference. Lakewood gave a few of [...]
2011 SEMA Day 2 DRIFT!
Wednesday, I had the opportunity to get in Tanner Foust’s Fiesta and take a couple of laps around the SEMA proving grounds. WOW. I had so much fun with this, Tanner is one hell of a driver and other than trying to buckle the anti-submarine belt (the crotch strap) being sucked into a race seat [...]
DRAG WEEK!!!
Yeah, I have been a bit absent around here lately, but I have been working on a few new projects, so there will be some excitement in the coming weeks. Last Thursday, I had the opportunity to hang out with the Hot Rod Magazine crew on the Tulsa leg of the 2011 Drag Week. Drag [...]
Redneck Monday! How NOT to move a car from point A to point B.
Since there has been a fairly nasty drought the last month here in Red Dirt country, I can’t blow anything up for the July 4th edition of Redneck Monday, so instead I have this–as promised I have loaded one of the outtakes of our recent video contest entry. Here is the back story: We used [...]
Vote for us! Mopar Moventure!
Its Mopar or No Car! OK, so we heard about this really cool road rally with Mopar. The idea is to take 10 teams and have them drive from Detroit to Golden, CO in a scavenger hunt. The winner gets some cool gear from Mopar Performance. To enter, you have to make a video talking [...]
Shelby GT350 + Gary Patterson + GoPro Hero HD= Too much fun!
At Shelby American, he is called the CFO, which in this case means the Chief Fun Officer. While to the uninitiated that may seem kind of silly, to anybody that has ever driven with him, you would know what it really means. If you like hardcore racing, you love it. If you get scared, you’ll [...]
“Mustang. Because nobody reminisces about their first Camry”
That was one of the “rejected” tag lines Steve Ling, North American Car Marketing Manager for Ford, told us about at the 37th annual Mid-America Team Shelby Nationals this weekend. I have been attending this event for the last 7 years, and even though I started out as very much a non-Ford guy, 7 years [...]
Feelin’ all warm and Toasty
OK, OK, I get it, enough of the Buttered Toast references. I finally got the wagon running and driving. It is officially back from a long slumber. I shot a little video using my GoPro Hero HD video camera of the drive to the exhaust shop. Enjoy. I will have better video of the completed car soon.