Last weekend marked the forty first running of the Virginia City Hillclimb. Set in the historic Nevada Comstock, the former stomping ground of such luminary swindlers as Mark Twain, the Virginia City Hillclimb consists of twenty one turns over five point two miles of closed highway. Hit the jump for more pics and a little bit of …
Category Archive: General Discussion
Oct 01
Lamborghini Cabrera and the case for manual transmissions.
Lamborghini have made an announcement about the replacement for the Gallardo. The car is to be called the Cabrera (yet another fighting bull’s name) LP600-4. Lamborghini’s Director of Communications, Rafaello Porro, has hinted that the car could be powered by a twin-turbo V10 engine. The most likely donor is the 5.2L V10 from the Audi …
Oct 01
Boys of Bonneville movie review
Admittedly I am not much of a movie critic and rarely catch the deep significant under meanings of movies. So I mainly stick to two kinds of a movies, funny movies, or movies with cars in them. So that brings me to Boys of Bonneville which is a documentary of sorts about Ab Jenkins who …
Sep 25
The 2014 Mazda 3, details and speculation
The Mazda 3 has been reasonably successful in the US since it’s launch early this century. At the time of launch it was lauded for it’s sporty styling, nice drive, and decent interior. However over it’s lifespan the Mazda 3 just did not age well and the much meligned refresh of 2010 did not help …
Sep 24
The Auto World Museum Fulton, Missouri
In the sleepy little town of Fulton, Missouri lies one of the nicest car collections in the state. William Backer was a potato chip maker and a car enthusiast. Over the years he accumulated quite the collection of cars. The museum rotates the cars through out various times of the year and as it turns …