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Old Bridge Township Raceway Park, Englishtown, N.J.- The NHRA POWERAde Drag Racing series will be lightin’ ‘em up at Englishtown this coming weekend. A track popular with magazine writers, Englishtown is a historic track that is sure to see some great racing action. Pro Stock teams will have their final chance to earn their way into the K&N Horsepower Challenge, so the action on track will be hot! If you can’t make it to E-Town for the races, see it all on ESPN2,with Qualifying on June 21st from 4-8PM, a repeat of Qualifying from 11:30PM-1:30AM, Eliminations on the 22nd from 8-11PM and a repeat of Eliminations on the 24th from 2-4AM. All times EST. Read the rest of this entry »

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Sorry guys/gals, looks like the guy best known for Love Lines, The Man Show and Crank Yankers will be hosting the US version of Top Gear. The good news is rally hot-shoe, Tanner Foust, will be co-hosting it. Maybe if we get lucky, Carolla will get fired before the show gets canceled. That being said, if it doesn’t suck, it will be nice to watch this on DVR rather than dealing with Torrent downloading the UK version. Which I will probably still do. c|g was lucky enough to find out about this via NBC’s PR group. Which is kind of cool. Full press release post jump.

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Up for sale on eBay is one of the original KITT Trans Ams used in the classic Knight Rider series. This KITT comes exactly as it was back when the show aired. It is the same car recently featured in the travesty movie The Benchwarmers. Buyer Beware, Jon Lovitz’ odor may still be present. Act fast, as the bidding ends tomorrow. If any of our readers buy this, we’d be happy to send you a free culture|garage sticker.

Hit the jump for more pictures.

[Source - eBay]

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Tom Hazen, of Minnesota Austin Healey Club, puts on some incredible events from highspeed runs at an airport, to country cruises, to my favorite event, the hillclimb.  The hillclimb starts with a very simple autox portion in the lower parking lot and then you round the last turn and charge uphill.  To slow the speeds and keep the event safe, they add a couple of chicanes for good measure.  This year, four c|g’ers made it to the event.  All of us enjoyed our time and even placed fairly well, I will update later with results.  For the time being, enjoy the video of Andrew Douglas and my runs.

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This is incredible!  This was just sent to me by my friend Andy.  He just received the below in an email from one of his friends (the owner and driver of the above car)

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Not to get all sentimental on you. But most of you are probably here reading this due to dad introducing you to cars. While my dad was never a car guy, I certainly remember having car talks with him. I remember asking him why anyone would want to drive stick (he is a perpetual automatic-guy) and he told me because people want to feel like race car drivers. So, all three of my current cars are manuals. Nothing makes me feel more manly then that.  Well that and when I was potty trained, I got stars.  A certain number of stars equaled a Hot Wheel car of my choice.  This continued until I was 14.

Anyways, most of you have probably heard of the Hoyts. If not, please watch the video. It’s an incredible story about the love and bond between a father and son. I first learned of the Hoyt’s when Rick Reilly, of Sports Illustrated, wrote of the father/son team. I wept. Read it here.

It’s a reminder to say thanks. And if you didn’t have a dad like that…it can help give you something to strive to be.

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From the forums, thanks Jesse!

With it’s latest concept, the company that makes the “Ultimate Driving Machine” has created what could be considered the Ultimate Project Runway task- make a fabric car!

The BMW Design Group has unleashed this “fierce” flexible fabric covered, movable wire frame concept, based on BMW’s GINA Design principle(Geometry and Functions In “N” Adaptions). GINA is said to promote innovative thinking by allowing maximum freedom of creativity.

Depending upon driver mood, he or she can do things like make the fenders larger, streamline and lower the sides, in addition to customizing the interior layout and seats. The hood also peels away from the center to reveal the BMW heart and the headlights and kidney-grill can reveal/hide at a whim.

I think the science and technology behind it all is wicked. But I can’t help but feel that the hood (especially when opened) makes the traditionally phallic sports car look awfully va-GINA-like…

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Spotted this on adrants.  The art direction and flow is pretty good.  But seriously, can you get more pretentious than this?  And further, how many young, 1 series owners or potential purchasers, even know who JackKerouac is?  This makes me want to never own a BMW.  Good thing this is running in Spain, so I don’t have to see this during my regularly scheduled programming.

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