Chris Essman: Road-tripping in the Race Car
Even though I retired long ago, I’m still on a distribution list for visitor message alerts on DSMtuners. If some illiterate stroke firebombs your profile over there and you slick the alert button, I get an email. Can’t do anything about it and tend to ignore them, but a morbid sense of curiosity had me clicking through on one the other day.
I’m glad I did. Today, GBXM shares the story of a gearhead building with conviction and purpose.
Forum Friday: Birthday Wishes
It’s Forum Friday. Time for gearhead news from across the web. I’ve had one hell of a rough month, so it’ s been a struggle even to make it to my own home boards, but I’ve got a forum-related story for you today all the same. Let’s get this weekend started!
Being a Car Guy Dad
Once upon a time, my friend Kamil Kaluski, a true gearhead, found himself staring down the barrel of fatherhood. He was living and working in downtown Boston and, without a proper house, garage, and three never-ending projects, he created a website as an outlet for his automotive passion. That website was called CarGuyDad. He’s since moved on to help run Hooniverse, but the term “Car Guy Dad” has always resonated with me.
Junkyard Grabs Part One
Here it is. If you don’t know what we are talking about, it’s probably a good idea to read these two articles: Junkyard Parts: Introducing Andrew Holloway and Junkyards: Introducing a New Concept! We’ve received our first batch of pictures of potentially important cars from our ‘junkyard-man’ and photographer, Andrew, so here they are. Click and either enjoy or find that one part you’ve been looking for!
FSBO: 6-Second DSM
It’s a totally tubular, 1400hp, RWD DSM dragster. Brent Rau’s “OSO Fast” car. I remember seeing this car run at the DSM Shootout a few years back. Ridiculous. And now it can be YOURS!
Ray’s Twincharged Talon
When it comes to forced induction, it’s not uncommon to find a lot of either-or thinking. You can have top end power OR low end torque. You can have quick spool-up OR gratuitous CFMs. Ray Peters tends to think in terms of AND. As in, you can increase displacement AND run a big turbo AND supercharge AND you can daily drive it.
GU+ at the Prescott Rally
This weekend, we’re in Prescott, Arizona, USA, attending the Prescott Rally, part of the USRC championship. We’re posting pictures to our Gearheads-United Tumblr (GU+) outpost until the battery on the Blackberry dies (which it did about an hour ago).
Back ‘Round to the All ‘Rounder
With our 2 year anniversary fresh in our minds, it was fortuitous we ran into our old friend Dominic Green. We interviewed Dominic about a year ago, and he told us about how he used his red, 97 Mitsubishi Eclipse GST. Much has changed in Dominic’s garage in the last year. We thought it made for an interesting story. Perhaps yours is similar?
Top 10 Movies for Gearheads
Why do we watch certain movies more than others? Being gearheads, I think it’s because there are certain films we see ourselves in more than others. This list is hardly authoritative, but I’d like to know if you see agree with this list and why you think it is – or is not – a top 10 movie for gearheads.
