Ladies and gentlemen, introducing the ‘Hulkcamino’. The immensely popular Hot Legends Tour is on hold for now, but not before a winner was named at the last virtual stop. Rather than cancel the stop, Mattel charged ahead and gave builders around the country the chance to compete for a chance to have their showcars turned...
The Petersen Car Week will begin on August 12, 2020, to help provide a sense of community usually created by the Monterey Car Week, which has been cancelled for 2020. The very first virtual Petersen Car Week now officially has sponsors and the car classes to be featured in the Petersen Concours d’Elegance. The concours...
LACar guest editor, Don Taylor, here gives us his thoughts on how the most important automotive industry aftermarket event of the year can safely go on … even in these challenging times! THE SHOW MUST GO ON! For just about everyone in the automotive industry, the SEMA Show is the largest gathering of the tribe,...
The American Rally Association’s first National event of the year stirs up the quaint, snowy towns of Northern Michigan. Once a year, anti-lag and turbo spool echoes off the hills nestled in the northern tip of the ‘Mitten’, or Michigan’s Lower Peninsula. This sparsely populated area is known best for hunting, canoeing and a hefty...
The first major auto show of the year presented some pleasant surprises among the nearly 1,000 vehicles on the floor of the colossal McCormick Place in downtown Chicago. I was on the tail end of my three-hour morning drive into Chicago on February 6 when I felt an icy drip on my left arm. Snow...
Underdog day. That’s what Sunday at the NTT IndyCar series finale at WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca might have been. It didn’t quite turn out that way, but the story lines were rich nonetheless. Put this into perspective: the St. Louis Blues won the Stanley Cup after being dead last in the NHL in early January,...
NTT IndyCar qualifying proceeded with some drama, some strategy, and a second-generation pole winner on Saturday at WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca. Sunday, four drivers amongst a field of 24 compete for the season’s title. NTT IndyCar qualifying is not a simple thing. There were 24 cars at Laguna Seca, so they went out in two...
The fog rolled off the water in Monterey Sunday morning, but at WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca, all was clear as fans arrived for the final IndyCar race of the season. It would decide the championship, contested between four drivers: leader Josef Newgarden, Alexander Rossi, Simon Pagenaud, and Scott Dixon. Pagenaud was spotted taking pictures with...
Laguna Seca Raceway – now properly called the WeatherTech Raceway – in Monterey, California sees visitors – both entusiasts, racers, and “others” – from all over the world. Where are you from? Looking out over the crowds—of cars, not people, since I’m not close enough—as I enter Laguna Seca Raceway (now properly called WeatherTech Raceway)...
Who would have thought – a classic car show with American and European cars in the middle of Bergen, Norway on a weeknight? It might have been only a few dozen cars, but boy, did they gather a crowd on a weekday evening in Bergen, Norway. Several dozen cars from the local antique auto club...