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A lawsuit filed by a Ferrari salesman from Palm Beach, Florida, may have aired some of Ferrari’s dirty laundry. According to a lawsuit filed in a Southern Florida district court by former salesman Robert “Bud” Root, the ex-employee alleged that New Country Motor Cars of Palm Beach wrongfully terminated the man based on his age and other factors. The lawsuit was first reported by the Daily Mail. The now 71-year-old said in his complaints that he was fired as a scapegoat for the use of a device that rolls back the odometers in Ferraris back to 0.

Motor Authority has located copies of the lawsuits in question, and they make several allegations that could be real problems for   …  More

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Pamela Hardy, more commonly as Jungle Pam, was in drag racing for only four short years, yet her name remains iconic nearly four decades later. That’s major longevity for someone whose main claim to fame was backing up a race car while scantily clad.

Jungle Pam ran the roads as the yin to Jungle Jim Liberman’s yang. She was the salt to his pepper. We think you get the drift.

As much as she’s enjoyed life as an ordinary citizen of West Chester, Pa., for the last four decades or so, drag racing fans have clamored for drag racing’s ultimate backup girl. The day she stepped in front of Liberman, scantily clad, she was sentenced to a life of anything but ordinary.

In this premiere episode of Legends: The Series, Season Three, Jungle Pam discusses those days of barnstorming drag racing and life on the road. She touches on drag racing as she sees it, and the loss of Jungle Jim, a loss she still feels pain for all these years later.

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Riding on the open road with Steppenwolf’s “Born to be Wild” playing in your head. How do you make this experience any better? Hint: The legendary Peter Fonda might have an idea. Watch Peter Fonda come back for one more epic ride – this time with The Coen Brothers.

Steppenwolf – Born To Be Wild (Easy Rider) (1969) with Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper and Jack Nicholson

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I recently got a new puppy, and EVERY TIME I took him out almost EVERY GIRL stop me to pet him. So I wanted to see if I can get more numbers with a Ferrari or with the puppy.

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