NASCAR too high-falutin’ for ya?

Thing those monster truck athletes are gettin’ a little too big fer their britches?

Tractor pulls have sold to corporate interests, ruining the purity of the sport?

Then look no further than Combine Demolition Derby!

You heard me, I said Combine Demolition Derby.

In years to come, people with speak of Lind, Washington with the same reverence the speak of Indianapolis or Monaco or Daytona (and if you don’t see the irony in that statement, then you don’t know what kind of town Indy was 100 years ago, or what a paradise Monaco was for smugglers and pirates … Daytona has always been like it is though (Oh, and by the way, the race is run in Speedway Indiana, NOT Indianapolis)). For Lind, Washington is the home of, from what I gather, the first demolition derby held exclusively for combines.

You know, those big farm rigs the size of small apartments that move just as fast?

Yeah, those. Combines!

This’ll finally be Lind’s chance to show up those stuck up jokers in Ritzville.

(Don’t believe me? Look it up on a map.)

I don’t normally do these types of posts, but I really thought some of you could use this.

Amazon.com is holding some really good deals on automotive products right now. I’ll list a few of the best ones below, then a link to go look at all of them. There are almost 7,300 automotive products right now that are over 70% off!

HID Conversion Kits for only $120 (full kits, multiple colors)
Just click the link to go there, then figure out which one fits your car.

Tons of Cheap Key Chains - Most are $1.25, some are $5. Here are a few:

• Nissan 350Z Custom Key Chain and Nissan 350Z Tear Drop Key Chain
• Dodge Tear Drop Key Chain
• Infiniti G35 Square Key Chain
• Dodge Custom Key Chain
• Ford Tear Drop Key Chain

Tons of Exterior Parts

License Plate Frame with Video Camera - $200

$5 Carbon Fiber Pens - Only a few are $5, but they’re all under $20.

In normal Amazon style, most of these items ship free with an order total of $25 or more. It’s really easy to pad your order past the $25, these guys have everything.

Here’s the full list of all 7,300 products on this insane sale.

Well now, this is something you should consider buying if you have the wall space (and the money and like vintage racing cars).

Artist Paul Chenard has done a run of four limited edition prints of engine bays from F1 cars of the 50s. Specifically he’s done representations of Maserati 250F, a Talbot-Lago T26C, a Vanwall and a Mercedes W196. The Giclee prints measure 14.5′x 11′ and will be limited to a run of 125. They are available for $100 cdn each or an even better deal of $325 for all 4 plus shipping.

There’s shots of the other three prints after the jump.

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The U.S. Postal Service (yes, the people you love to hate, but need on a daily basis) has been doing some interesting and fairly unconventional things for a governmental agency.

Awhile back, the released a series of stamps featuring comic book super heroes, and now the USPS is releasing a series of stamps all about Tailfins.

How cool is that?

They’re making five stamps featuring five different, and pretty damn interesting cars. Four of the five are 1957s. You got your ‘57 Chrysler 300C, a ‘57 Lincoln Premiere (pretty esoteric), ‘57 Pontiac Safari (not to be confused with the Nomad) a ‘57 Studebaker Golden Hawk (another fine esoteric choice) and of course, a ‘59 Cadillac Eldorado.

C’mon, if you’re talking fins, how can you not include a 59 Cadillac Eldorado?

If all you’re used to is modern cars, if you can check out a 59 Cadillac up close, do so. The rear quarter panel (that part that has the fin on it) is about the size of a Miata. Hell, thing probably weighs more than a Miata.

Those were the days when adding 500 pounds of chrome to a car was a necessary and sound engineering decision. That was also the time when people used phrases like “road hugging weight” with a serious tone.

And oh yeah, you bet they’re first class.

There’s the rest of the stamps after the jump.
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Very good move for Pontiac here. This commercial is for the new Pontiac G8, and it’s based off the 1980’s classic video game Spyhunter. The very market who Pontiac aims to sell these cars to grew up playing these games, and I think this will really strike a cord with us. This is honestly the coolest car commercial I think I’ve ever seen: Continue Reading…

As I mentioned a little bit ago, there’s these nice (and by “nice” I mean certifiable) fellows at RS Performance that made a 500 HP V8 out of two joined Hayabusa blocks and installed it into a Caterham 7 chassis.

‘Brilliant, nothing’s gonna top this!’

Well, I was wrong (as usual).

Seems that the boys at RS decided to put the same mill into a modified Ariel Atom.

They had to alter things slightly … note the wings, I’m pretty sure those are an option on “lesser” Atoms, but they’re pretty damn necessary for something that has a power to weight ratio greater then a Veyron, but somewhat less than a Saturn V (I guess). They also mounted the intercoolers for the blower in those ducts you see just forward of the rear wheels.

At any rate, maybe I spoke too soon about the Caterham being a 2008, street legal version of a 1970 GP car … this is much, much closer, what with the wings and the mid-mounted engine and all.

Still, two words: The Nürburgring.