2017 In The Rearview

A quick survey of the 80 articles and videos we published in 2017. Thank you to all the contributors, sponsors and most of all our readers. We are grateful for your time and interest in this independent production. Please take a moment and share or tell a friend about the Fuel Fed Fun we are […]

The 2017 C/10 Club Toy Drive

What a great day at the Pomona Swap Meet. Several chapters of the C/10 Community came together to donate toys for the Spark of Love Toy Drive. As you can see they filled the biggest truck they had, a slammed GMC Custom 25 Hundred four door. A big shout out to fellow Merciful, John Oro […]

Prestone Celebrates 90 Years

A Birthday Party At The Petersen Automotive Museum The name has been around for a long time. I never realized how long Prestone has been around. Since I owned Blacktop Depot – an automotive memorabilia store in Orange, CA – Prestone branded porcelain signs, cans and storefront thermometers came from and went to collectors around […]

The Automotive Aftermarket

A SEMA 2017 Report Commentary: Tony Colombini, Photos: Blacktop Media Network Staff There was quite a bit of talk among the aisles of the 2017 SEMA Show regarding the future of the automobile industry. And no doubt plenty of those discussions involved Autonomous cars. One question was: Who was going to own these cars? Will […]

Historic Bothwell Collection 100% SOLD

Peugeot L45 Grand Prix Racer makes a world record, as does the Benz Prinz Heinrich Raceabout, and more; Auction achieves more than $13.7-million 12 November 2017 – It’s the last of the kind – a self-contained 16-acre working citrus farm, ringed with towering palm trees, sprinkled with WWII-era ranch buildings, situated just over the hill […]

TrekStep by BESTOP

“The SEMA Crunch is REAL!” I joked online as we received our TrekStep from Bestop on Wednesday before the big show. “It’s gonna take some long nights to finish our SEMA Build!” There was that ONE-GUY who had to think we were serious. “How many thumbs do you have?” He exclaimed. We get ready to […]

Edelbrock’s NEW AVS2 Series Carburetor

Edelbrock is excited to announce the AVS2 Series as the next generation of their carburetor product line. The AVS2 carburetor features annular flow primary boosters with a new calibration for improved off-idle and cruising performance. The annular flow booster design delivers improved fuel atomization to eliminate flat spots that may be encountered when the carburetor […]

Wade’s Hemi-Burban

1950 Plymouth Suburban  When I first saw these photos I was floored. Wade had shared them on his Instagram page. I made it a point to contact him and find out more about this beautiful car and find the back-story. A friend of his shot these photos and requests to be annonymous but he certainly […]

Larry’s Big Window

Paternal Inspiration An old photo of his mom and dad with a ‘50’s era Chevy Truck in the background sparked a cylinder in Larry’s head. That spark led to an inspiration to some day have an old Chevy truck to cruise around in like his parents did back in the day. Soon enough, Larry got […]