When Sex Was Safe… Story: Tom Stahler – Photos: Adam Hosey On Saturday morning they came out of the coastal mist like a bolt of lighting from history… For a brief shining moment, it was 1961 again… When sex was…
Vintage Motorsport
Category: Benchracing
Wartime Y.O.M.
1941-46 California License Plates Here in California, collector car owners can register their car with period correct Y.O.M. or Year Of Make license plates. Like any beauracracy, there are certain rules to be met. In Article 8 Section 5004.1: (a)…
GIRL’s of Irwindale
GORGEOUS IRWINDALE RACING LADIES The Gorgeous Irwindale Racing Ladies (G.I.R.L.) is an organization that was founded by CEO Kelly Anderson on June 9th, 2020 to encourage women and bring them together in a predominantly male sport. The organization is led…
Inside Blacktop Magazine #25
Inside Special Print Edition #25 featuring the G.I.R.L.’s of Irwindale a group of racing ladies, artist Andrea Young is in our ArtMartyr column, Moto-Journalist Chris Gibbany, Director of the Automobile Driving Museum; Marisol Herrera and Lana Chrisman- Executive Director at…
What’s Up At The Daily Driver Project
A collaboration with The Daily Driver Project. Follow along with the conversation between Wes Nielsen of The Daily Driver Project (http://www.DailyDriverProject.com) and Tony Colombini from Blacktop Magazine as they discuss how Blacktop Magazine got started, how Daily Driver Project started,…
Third Member Rehab Part Two
Installing the Differential and Gears at J & S Gear Company. This has been an interesting project. The closest I have ever done of something like this is when we replaced the rear end on my nephew Marcus’ #KidWrencher ’66…
Third Member Rehab
Part One With a small leak in our rear end of Ol’ Riff-Raff, we decided to open it up and see what we have in our Third Member. In this video we talk about how to determine gear ratio and…
More Progress with Garrett Baldwin
#KidWrencher Series Part 3 The garage was a blazing this late winter. Garrett and his dad Ed did a lot of work on the truck. I think they have made some great progress whereas Ed admits that they are hobbyist…
LEXI DEL REY
VP at El Rey’s Garage and Television Executive Producer So-Cal born and raised, Lexi learned how to appreciate the classics from her dad, who’s car collection was always changing. His automotive stable was constantly rotating through Lincolns, Studebakers and Chryslers,…
The Sweet 16 Classic
Original Redline Hot Wheels Racing, Cacklefest and Car Show I have been working on collecting the first series of original “played with” Redline Hot Wheels known as “The Sweet 16”. Just as I completed the collection by flipping some garage…
A Sunday Drive in my ’69 Torero
It’s been a while. Yep, a while since I slid behind the wheel of my Spectraflame Blue Torero. I remember seeing the car as a kid when it was brand new. The style and design was like something I have…
CON2R Wheel Builder Contest Winner
Mark Sanders and his 1930 Model A Ford Pickup ‘Junior’ Last year we helped promote the CON2R Wheel Builder program on their website with a contest. The winner of the contest, Mark Sanders has sent us an update on the…