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2018 Ford Mustang: The Latest Escalation in the Pony Car Arms Race

By RK Motors - Nov 21, 2017

For the automaker teams that engineer, develop, and tweak the Chevrolet Camaro and the Ford Mustang, the pony-car war...

Here's What the Family Road Trip Looked Like in 1954

By RK Motors - Nov 19, 2017

No GPS, no satellite radio, and a nation without a unified highway system. Here's how your grandparents did it. Road trippin...

Showtime: Steven Boschma's 1955 Chevy Gasser

By RK Motors - Nov 15, 2017

What is it about a Tri-Five Chevy—especially a 1955 Bel Air post—with a straight axle propping its nose up high in the air, f...

AACA Museum's latest exhibit celebrates "Getting the Job Done: Vehicles that Earned Their Keep"

By RK Motors - Nov 13, 2017

1938 Autocar tanker. Photos courtesy AACA Museum, unless otherwise noted. Without commercial vehicles, modern life would gri...

Chevy crowns new speed king with 2019 Corvette ZR1

By RK Motors - Nov 12, 2017

The 2019 Corvette ZR1 is the new king of Chevrolet performance. The coupe debuted Sunday at the Dubai International Motor Sh...

Watch Dirt Cars Take to the Asphalt

By RK Motors - Nov 10, 2017

There used to be a time where drivers could race their cars on both asphalt and dirt. Those days, however, are long gone (at ...

The Ultimate Hauler: Insanely unique 1972 C50 Chevy Crew-Cab

By RK Motors - Nov 02, 2017

Thank you, Nitto Tires, for once again going the extra mile to seek out truly unique vehicles to put in its SEMA booth. We ju...

Ringbrothers Prestone Javelin Debuts at SEMA 2017

By RK Motors - Nov 01, 2017

Custom Bodywork and 1,080 Hemi Horsepower When Prestone wanted a vehicle to celebrate their 90s anniversary, Mike and Jim Ri...

A new Tucker, true to the original, debuts at SEMA

By RK Motors - Nov 01, 2017

You can't go out and buy a Tucker 48. Not really, at least. First, you’d need to find one of the 47 (depending on how you cou...

SEMA this week in Las Vegas is automobile enthusiasts' heaven

By RK Motors - Oct 30, 2017

The latest and greatest in automobile customization will take center stage in Las Vegas as SEMA returns this week. In its 51...

2018 COPO Camaro Hot Wheels 50th Anniversary Edition

By RK Motors - Oct 27, 2017

Chevrolet revealed the 2018 COPO Camaro recently at Hot Wheels headquarters in conjunction with the announcement of the 2018 ...

Man Buys Flood-Damaged Car At Auction And Incredibly Finds That It Was His Uncle's Old Race Car

By RK Motors - Oct 27, 2017

When Alvin Pharis was a kid in the 1960s, he had an uncle named Clifford who used to race cars. Clifford was a drag racer, st...

Very Rare 1970 Mercury Cougar Boss Eliminator May Be the Finest Unrestored Example in Existence

By RK Motors - Oct 23, 2017

Maybe if Mercury had simply called its Boss 302–powered Cougar a Boss 302, production would have totaled more than 638 units ...

Ford Bringing Seven 2018 Mustang Show Cars To SEMA

By RK Motors - Oct 20, 2017

Tricked-out ponies include cool cop car Ford always brings out a fleet of wild show cars to the Specialty Equipment Market A...

'It's a bit of pride': the last Holden marks an end to car manufacturing in Australia

By RK Motors - Oct 19, 2017

At 5.45am on Thursday, three generations of the Grant family piled in to a Holden Commodore and pulled out of their driveway ...

The Birth Of Outlaw Hot Rodding

By RK Motors - Oct 18, 2017

JB Cochran was my grandfather. He ran and operated Cochran Garage in Ada, OK from the late 1930’s until he eassed away at an ...

Goodguys Rolls Into Charlotte for the 24th Southeastern Nationals

By Josh Leatherwood - Oct 16, 2017

It's peppering rain in Charlotte on this cool Monday morning. But, like the scene around the Charlotte Motor Speedway, things...

Amelia Island Concours partners with Historic Sportscar Racing to present Classic 24 Hour at Daytona

By RK Motors - Oct 16, 2017

In 2014, Historic Sportscar Racing (HSR) debuted a new 24-hour vintage racing event at Daytona International Raceway. In the ...