One of my favorite local speed shops, S&R Performance, merged with Vortex Motorsport recently and on Saturday night my wife and I attended the massive grand opening of their new shop, VSR Motorsports. The new location and larger shop
Early on Friday morning, I attended the beginning of the construction of the street course that is annually built on the streets of St Pete for the Honda Grand Prix. These massive wall pieces weight 12,000 pounds each! They will
On the weekend before last I started getting the Miata on the road to better health with multiple coolant flushes. The system was quite dirty, so the first step was draining the radiator. Simple enough, it’s just removing a plastic
Who gets a sunburn in January? I do, that’s who. This morning we drove out to pick up our new (to us) Miata and I refused to be dissuaded from driving with the top down all the way home… for an hour and
My obsession with the little red roadsters has hit full boil recently. Just a couple of months ago, I was talking about how I must acquire a roadster, after a quick drive that I shared with one. Now with the Rabbit
This past Thursday, I attended a Gotham Dream Car Sprint driving experience with a Ferrari F430 on Challenge Stradale wheels and a first generation Lamborghini Gallardo Spyder. As I mentioned on Hooniverse recently, the Lamborghini Countach was one of the
Many thanks to Hooniverse.com for publishing my article! For many years, I’ve wanted to see a Lamborghini Countach up close. This car is part of the reason why I’m obsessed with cars today. A trendsetter in style, form, and (dis)function, it was
Tonight, I ran across a fellow Jalop (commenter on Jalopnik, for the uninitiated), by the name of Jackson, on Google+ and I remembered that he and I live in the same town. Not only that, he attends the university that
This second part from my recent trip to Las Vegas, a visit to Shelby American. This is where Shelby’s main base was and still is, for the manufacture of Shelby go-fast parts and performance vehicles. They also house the Shelby
I recently spent a week in Las Vegas. This was my second trip to Las Vegas and in this first article about the trip, I’ve got the photos from my second visit to The Auto Collections. This was all part
