Author Archives: Eric Rood

Stanced Civic Struggles to Exit Driveway

Honda-tech.com Honda Civic EG stance stanced fail

You don’t really need door sills with a stanced Civic, do you? “There’s a reason there are virtually no good 90’s Civics left on the road anywhere,” says 7Tune about this video they posted of a stanced-and-dragging fifth-gen Civic coupe. Indeed, the exaggerated camber, scraping body panels, “hater pipe” exhaust, and general half-baked completion look [...] More »

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The Smoke Tire Takes On 757-Horsepower Callaway Corvette Aerowagon


Matt Farah drives the 757-horsepower Corvette wagon of our dreams. In this One Take on The Smoking Tire, Matt Farah drives the (only) Callaway C7 Corvette Aerowagon with some gusto in Southern California’s Angeles Forest. The Aerowagon adds a shooting-brake style roofline to the C7 that makes it stand out. However, Farah discovers that the [...] More »

Big Vintage Racing Crash at Road Atlanta Crumples Ford GT

6SpeedOnline.com Ford GT GT-R MK.7 Road Atlanta crash

ALMS-era Ford GT wrecks big at Road Atlanta during vintage racing event. Road Atlanta contains a number of unforgiving turns, but none can put a driver in bigger trouble than Turn 12. For Patrick Mullaney, that turn gave him a rude awakening during qualifying for Historic Sportscar Racing’s vintage-racing banner event, The Mitty. While taking the turn [...] More »

The Smoking Tire Drives Pure Insanity: 115-Horsepower 1972 Honda N600

Honda-tech.com Honda N600 115HP VFR800 Motorcycle engine swap Smoking Tire Review

Between giggling fits, Farah manages to shout ‘This thing is a riot’ It’s pretty rare to see Matt Farah grinning ear to ear for the duration of an entire One Take. On this episode for The Smoking Tire, however, Matt finds maybe the biggest smiles-per-mile of all time in a bike-swapped, Honda N600. This is [...] More »

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