Boys of Bonneville: Racing on a Ribbon of Salt is a remarkable tale from an era of American motorsport that has all but faded into legend, when ideas, determination and hard work were enough to fashion reality from dreams. David Abbott Jenkins, better known as “Ab,” almost single-handedly started the story of speed on the Bonneville Salt Flats of his native Utah, and with it much of the heritage of a whole branch of the sport.
After “discovering” the Salt Flats’ potential for speed on a motorcycle in the 1920s, Jenkins became  … More
I’m going to go out on a limb and say that a safe 102% of the readers of this site are fans of both cars and a vast and disgusting variety of sexual acts. And that’s great. My stand on cars is well established (quite pro) and when it comes to sex, I can’t think of a more enjoyable way to get the maximum genetic diversity to my offspring. Plus, it gives my genitals something to do other than pee all the time, which any old stupid catheter could do, and probably better.
Plus, with many folks temporarily relocated to family members’ houses this time of year, the idea of sex in a car may be sounding more appealing than usual. So, with that in mind, we decided   … More
This Timelapse / Drivelapse video shows my road trip down the entire length of Route 66 (The Mother Road) from Chicago to Los Angeles in August 2012. When given an option for which time era of the road to travel we picked the oldest parts of Route 66 (pre-1937, pre-1928 etc).
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A key cog in the Formula 1 traveling circus is the legion of rich folks that pour money into the sport and its ancillary activities. They must, of course, get to the race and parties somehow, and we ain’t talking about no rental Versa. Every race location is inundated with piles of exotic hardware, and Austin, Texas, is no different, with the parking lots at the Circuit of the Americas having no shortage of high-end metal to complement the F1 cars tearing up the track. But with F1’s large demographic spread, there also were tons of completely normal autos, as well as a metric crapton of pickup trucks—this is Texas, after all. Here are a few of our favorites:  … More