Author Archives: Eric Rood

Ouch! Classic Camaros, Holdens, and More Get Crunched In This Racing Crash

LS1tech.com Classic Australian Touring Car Masters Camaro Crash Racing Race

Touring Car Masters crash crumples a dozen vintage race cars. Like their American counterparts, Australians love muscle cars. Starting in the 1960s, the Land Down Under imported in enough and also built enough of their own to have a proper V8-based car culture. And like muscle car fans stateside with vintage Trans-Am racing, the Aussies love [...] More »

C6 Z06 and GT500 Somehow Escape Street Racing Spin Without Crashing

LS1tech.com C6 Corvette Z06 Ford Mustang GT500 street racing spin out crash race

Z06 dumps oil, things go haywire, everything is…fine? Things can go really wrong anywhere you race, but a big slide during a street race tends to produce a big crash. Somehow, this street-racing incident in Texas ends with neither a crumpled Corvette Z06 nor Shelby GT500. Given the level of devastation apparent in the nitrous-fed [...] More »

Craigslist Find of the Week: Triple-Black 1991 Chevy Pickup with an LS1

LS1tech.com LS1 swap Truck Chevy craigslist find

The Sith Lord’s LS1-powered work truck awaits. How good does this look? We’re not always nuts about pickup trucks. And we know tastes are subjective, but this 1991 Chevy C1500 on CraigsList in Los Angeles looks just…right. With the front faschia extended below the bumper, it resembles the 454SS. Except there’s no 454. Instead, under [...] More »

2017 Honda Civic Si Wins Race With Borrowed Bumper From Street Car in Paddock

Honda-tech.com 2017 Honda Civic Si PWC Shea Racing Tom O'Gorman crash bumper Pirelli World Challenge PWC

Fortuitous paddock spotting helps Civic get back into race and win class. Tom O’Gorman might have been getting married at this weekend’s Pirelli World Challenge races at Canadian Tire Motorsports Park. He had something old (a “slightly used” 2017 Civic Si race car), something new (a brand-new Civic Si street car), something borrowed (the brand-new Civic Si’s [...] More »

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