A shop for all seasons, a shop for all reasons. Parts and Accessories: Cycle City Motorsports specializes in diversity. In the fall and winter, when you are out tearing up the dirt you are sure to replace that old worn…
Cypress Cruise Night – Original Award Designs
– Gary Morin My boys at the Mercifuls Car Club host a weekly cruise on Thursday nights. The Cypress Cruise is at VJ’s Hamburgers on Walker St. just north of Ball Rd. in Cypress CA. The cruise night is right…
Tiki Highway – Fun in the sun on PCH
Aloha. Here’s where I may get a bit personal. I dig hawaiian kitsch. We recently joined Netflix at the house. Hawaii 5-0 is now in the top 5 “Recently Watched” programs. And, not the stupid new version, but the original…
Barrett-Jackson Auction OC 2011
An automotive circus. The OC Fairgrounds hosts many automotive events, Cruisin for a Cure, Labor Day Cruise, Good-guys Get-Together and many others. Last year was the first year for the famed SPEED channel favorite Barrett-Jackson Auction held at the Fairgrounds.…
Born Free 3 – the breeze in the knees
– Tony Colombini, photos: Billy Colombini This was the best damn show ever! There I said it. Grant and the boys should be held up to the heavens. I’ve been to a lot of bike events and the quality of…
A Back-Alley Car Show
The Daggers OC Car Club hosted a car show at Bigs Grill in Fullerton recently. After hitting a couple of other events, I rolled in there early in the afternoon as the show was just getting started. I almost missed…
1967-81 Camaro Fender Braces by Eddie Motorsports
Billet ‘67-’81 Camaro Fender Braces Even the smallest, most incidental parts on your car are targets for the Eddie Motorsports magic touch. The Southern California manufacturer has recently introduced a complete line of custom billet aluminum fender/core support braces for…
Long Beach Roller Derby with the Mercifuls Car Club
Some of you recall our visit to the newly formed Long Beach Roller Derby last year, and this year we had to go again. The girls moved from flat-track concrete slab racing to an elevated banked wooden track, still under…
Tucker’s Performance Center – Las Vegas
A Vegas Hot Spot for Gearheads. I’ve mentioned this shop before. While on our way to the Viva Las Vegas Show we got a call from our Hub Buddy, Bad Ass Bob suggesting we stop in to his favorite shop…
Rip’s BAD Ride 14 – A Nice Day in the Park.
It’s that time of year again when the biker nation gets together for what has been billed as the largest one-day motorcycle fundraising event in Southern California. The Rip’s B.A.D. Ride. In it’s 14th year, the BAD Ride has helped…
Dixie Rebelle: Our Rebellious/Italian Blacktop Betty
In keeping a bit with an Italian theme this week at Blacktop Magazine we offer Dixie Rebelle! A 24 year old Leo from Fullerton, CA who is self-proclaimed as half Italian, half Redneck. We say ALL Betty-licious! After struggling through…
Compact Motorcycle Lifts
How often have you hoisted your bike on one of those small “transmission style” platform lifts you got at Costco? I’ve done it many times and the fear of the balance being off and the bike come down on the…
The 401k Club Hot Rod Shop
It was several years ago that I first heard of The 401k Club Hot Rod Shop. This was in a time where hot rod shops were coming out of the woodwork. And now we see the survivors. The key to…
Rodeo Dr. Concours – Art of Italian Motoring
And now for something completely different… On Fathers Day weekend, we usually head out to the L.A. Roadsters Show at the Fairplex. This year with a little prodding by my boy Billy we invited my pop out to the Rodeo…
Viva Las Vegas Weekend Events
In Las Vegas, Easter bunnies and candy eggs are replaced with pomps and pinups as the Viva Las Vegas show rolls in to the Orleans. This was our first year at Viva and what a crazy time it was. On…