See a Formula One Car Come To Life From Concept To Track

It’s the end of the day on a Friday, but like those teachers you loved so much back in the day here’s your homework: watch this video.

At 8:21 it pushes the boundary of how much time I’m willing to spend watching stuff on YouTube, but it’s really amazing seeing an F1 car come together. Not come together in the built sense, but from conception and computer design. Too often it’s easy to forget that parts aren’t born parts, cars aren’t just assembled, they all begin as an idea and this takes you through the entire process of how the most technically complex cars on the planet are born.

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Travel Back A 100 Years With Slew Of Antique Fords

We cover a lot of auctions and car shows, but one recent show in particular caught our eye since it was like nothing we’d ever seen before. That car show is the Old Car Festival which features a slew of old cars.

The event is held in Greenfield Village in Dearborn, MI which is home to the Henry Ford Museum which as you can imagine helps draw quite a bit of antique Fords to the festival. At the most recent festival hundreds of cars were on hand ranging from the 1890s to 1932. Take a stroll down memory lane… Well, maybe not memory lane because I highly doubt anyone reading this has first-hand memories of these cars on the street, but you get the gist. Get your Gatsby on with the gallery below.

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Vintage Top Fuel Dragster Looks To Race Across Auction Block

The auto world is full of rivalries, some like Ford vs. Ferrari were taken quite seriously while some leaned more silly. Take drag racer Tom McEwen and his rivalry with Don Prudhomme. Don was nicknamed “The Snake” and as everyone knows mongooses eat snakes, so Tom became “Mongoo$e,” adding the dollar sign for good measure or perhaps it doubled as his password. Though the naming rivalry may seem child’s play Tom’s 1968 Top Fuel Dragster is anything but.

Raced in the 1968 season the car would win the Stardust Invitational, have the lowest ET at the U.S. Nationals and win Lions 14th Anniversary Race. Having made quite a name for itself on the drag strip it was shortly after commemorated by landing the cover of Drag Racing Magazine in 1969 and featured again in Hot Rod the following year. Since that time the car has continued to live on after racing thanks to a restoration by Mike Kuhl and Tom Allen. It would also be Mike Kuhl who built the cars 392 cu.-in. V8 engine by way of Mike Kuhl Engineering.

The classic Top Fuel Dragster is being auctioned alongside the Mongoo$e’s original, restored, trailer and with signed nose piece and racing helmet. A must buy for any drag racing or motorsports collector. The dragster is being offered at Mecum’s Phoenix auction as part of the Ugly John Collection and is estimated to sell between $135,000 – $160,000.

[Photography courtesy of Mecum Auctions.]

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See The Ford Mustang Supercar’s On Track Debut!

Ford Mustang racing in Australia!? Crikey! Though not new news that the Ford Mustang Supercar is joining the 2019 Virgin Australia Supercars Championship it has been overshadowed stateside by the manufacturer prepping for their NASCAR debut.

In all six Mustang Supercars will be joining the series this year amongst three teams: Shell VPower Racing, Tickford Racing Mustangs and 23Red Racing. The iconic Ford is hoping to find immediate success in the series by way of driver Scott McLaughlin who won the 2018 Supercars Championship with Shell VPower Racing. Scott and fellow Mustang Supercar drivers will make the cars race debut the February 28th and March 1st at the Superloop Adelaide 500. Until then get a look and hear the roar of the V8 in the first track footage of the car below!

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1 of 4 Ever Produced, ’55 Chrysler Ghia ST Special To Auction

A sucker for Chrysler’s of yesteryear, especially the famed “letter series,” this 1955 Chrysler Ghia ST Special might just be a new favorite.

Born in a time where performance seemed to take a backseat to design, this car is the pinnacle of design from two of the most prominent car designers in history. American stylist for Chrysler, Virgil Exner and Luigi Segre, designer and owner at Carrozzeria Ghia would team up during the early 1950s on a series of designs such as this ’55. Furthermore, the duo would elicit the help of French Chrysler designer Charles Ladouch. In the end, the men would produce just four of these beauties which was shown at the 1955 Turin Motor show.

In 2014 the car would undergo a nut and bolt restoration restoring the car to its Ghia Coachwork and Chrysler chassis. Finished in the original two-tone copper and ivory and features a 331 cu.-in. 250hp Hemi V8 engine. It also features power steering and power brakes with period correct wire wheels.

The four made were split up with two going to French customers and two going to Italian customers, with none coming to the states. However, one has since made its way here and is being offered at Mecum’s Phoenix auction in mid-March.

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Ram Introduces All-New 60-40 Split Tailgate

There’s a lot going on in the world today and nothing more important then the war of the tailgates [insert eye roll]. It began innocently enough, GMC introducing a an innovative multifunctional tailgate, but then came their knockout punch with the “Anthem” commercial showing Ford and Ram owners getting rid of their tailgates. Shots fired.

Today Ram introduces their own multifunction tailgate to the 2019 Ram 1500. Unfortunately, the functionality of it is akin the saw blade on a Swiss Army knife, it’s a function, but what are you really supposed to do with it? The new tailgate opens traditionally, right side only, left side only, both doors and, of course, not at all. When opening one of the two sides it does so on vertical hinges so instead of laying down they swing open and do so in a 60-40 split. This means the left side of the tailgate is 60% and the right side 40%.

Now I haven’t ever owned a truck, but I’ve driven them and more importantly for this point, I’ve seen them and I can’t think of a problem this solves more efficiently than just having the entire tailgate down? Wood too long? Drop the gate. Getting in? Drop the gate. Even when considering not having enough room to drop the gate the tailgate sides require about the same amount of room behind the truck to swing open. The most practical element is an additional cost $295 on top of the $995 tailgate, a center step. They say necessity is the mother of all invention and I don’t see any necessity here.

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A Lap At The Rolex 24 From Behind The Wheel Of A Lamborghini Huracán GT3 EVO

If you’re not a fan of endurance racing, we get it, it can be, well, enduring, but middle of the night racing can be visually stunning. Case and point, watching this driver change and lap around Daytona International Speedway’s road course from the POV of driver Miloš Pavlović.

Piloting the Precision Performance Motorsports No. 47 Lamborghini Huracán GT3 EVO which was also sponsored by Gas Monkey Energy, the helmet cam shows how smoothly teams change drivers throughout the course of the 24 hour race. This was just one driving stint by Miloš who was joined behind the wheel by Linus Lundqvist, Steve Dunn and Don Yount. Unfortunately, the team would spend a few hours in the pit mid-race with gearbox issues, but return to finish the event in P20.

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