Archive for 'Race cars' Category
Koenigsegg 1018 Horsepower E85 Supercar
19 April 2007Koenigsegg builds a pretty amazing line of cars but they have now gone green, too, with the E85 powered Koenigsegg Flower Power supercar. The power and performance numbers put this car in some very heady territory. The engine has been detuned slightly from their original 1100bhp+ and 885 foot pounds of torque to a [...]
Scale Model Ferrari 312PB
3 April 2007Model building has come a very long way over the years, what some of us remember from our childhood doesn’t begin to resemble what model builders accomplish these days. But even among today’s highly skilled craftsmen, a few build scale creations that simply leave you speechless.
Pierre Scerri of Italy has built what must be some [...]
1932 Ford Gravity Racer for sale
11 February 2007This 1932 Ford Gravity racer is the kind of a soap box derby racer you would have built when you were a kid if you had the time, money and know how. A hand laminated epoxy and fiberglass body has a mild steel chassis and an aluminum belly pan. It has rack and pinion steering [...]
OnCamber Variable Camber Steering System
7 December 2006OnCamber, LLC, has developed a system of on the fly mechanical camber adjustment so the camber angle set on your suspension is correct for whatever direction the car is traveling, in effect, leaning the tires into the turn, in somewhat the same fashion as a motorcycle. The system was shown for the first time at [...]
Street Legal Sprint Car For Sale
1 October 2006At first glance you might think this is a crazy idea, but with all of the near race ready cars being sold by the factories and custom builders these days, this fits right in. What we have here is a street legal sprint car for sale, it’s the completely restored 1970’s Lloyd Shores Sprint Car.
They [...]
No NASCAR - Danica Patrick to Andretti-Green
18 July 2006It looks like Danica Patrick isn’t going the bump and draft route after all if the latest reports are true. It seems she’s planning to go with the Andretti-Green team to race next to Marco Andretti. I guess the IRL will keep the popular racer in their own stable for another season, though she may [...]