…Â Growing up in Pleasanton in the 1950s and living in a wrecking yard, all I could think of was building a hot rod. Times were really simple then. There were only two police officers in town (one for day and one for night) and if you drank too much, they’d simply drive you home. My father owned the only wrecking yard in the tri-valley area, and I was around cars all the time.
Roadsters were hot back then. A friend of our family came out to the yard one day …Â More
Roadtrip Timelapse / Drivelapse video from my 12,225 mile roadtrip around the USA from August 2011 – October 2011 shortened to 5 minutes.Â
More details and a map of my America Roadtrip Timelapse Drivelapse Project can be found here:
http://briandefrees.com/featured/usa-drivelapsetimelapse-project/Â
If you think the stock Viper is a brutal machine, imagine the Dodge sports car fitted with a Mopar-upgraded 800HP V10 like the one unveiled at the SEMA show.
The new engine, codenamed P5155872 Performance Series V10, has been developed especially for drag racing. It features an aluminum block and aluminum cylinder heads, forged steel crankshaft with forged steel connecting rods and forged aluminum pistons with a high compression ratio of 12.5:1.
If you own a Viper and want more grunt … Pictures and more
Our love of cars started right here. Movie and TV cars are literally the stuff of dreams. We’re all let into theaters and plopped in front of the tube long before we’re issued driver licenses.
Then we all dream of doing reverse 180s like Jim Rockford escaping thugs, or fleeing the po-po in a Shelby Mustang named Eleanor. We all want a best friend like KITT. And every orange Dodge Charger can fly, right?
These are the 100 movie and TV cars that built that passion  … Pictures and more