Video: Go Faster celebrates the 70s heyday of race car liveries

Filed under: Videos, Design/Style, Racing

According to Sven Voelker’s book Go Faster, it was American driver Briggs Cunningham who ushered in the era of the “go-faster stripe” when he put two of them on his white Le Mans racer in the fifties. The next year, according to Voelker, stripes were everywhere, and so began the era [...]

The Hot Rod Art Book for iPad teaches you how to draw cars [w/video]

Filed under: Etc.

Hot Rod Art Book app for the iPad – Click above to watch video after the jump

If you want to draw hot rods and learn the basics of drawing cars, then you’ll want to check out the Hot Rod Art Book for the iPad. A combination of the text-only book and the videos [...]

Vauxhall’s Thoroughly Modern Motoring Manners aims to teach you how to drive

Filed under: Etc., Marketing/Advertising, Vauxhall, UK

The new Vauxhall Astra – or something or someone claiming to be the new Vauxhall Astra – has co-written a book on driving manners. The other co-writer is Debrett’s, an English version of Miss Manners except that Debrett’s has been dispensing etiquette advice for more than 200 years, long before [...]

Tell your best Yugo story, win a signed copy of the Yugo book

Filed under: Budget, Etc., Europe, Hatchback

Q: What’s included in every Yugo’s owners manual? A: A bus schedule – click above for high-res image gallery

Everyone loves free stuff, right? Everyone also loves (and loves to hate) the Yugo. Well then, have we got a contest for you. Yesterday we posted our review of The Yugo: The [...]

Book Review: Legendary Race Cars by Basem Wasef [w/VIDEO]

Filed under: Motorsports

Maserati 8CM number 3011 from Legendary Race Cars – Click above for high-res image gallery

Confused as to what to do with all the Barnes & Nobles and Amazon.com gift cards your in-laws pelted you with this Holiday season? Be confused no more! Legendary Race Cars is the book every pistonhead needs sitting on [...]