If you haven’t gotten hooked on Hoonigan’s YouTube videos yet, it could be for a variety of reasons. Maybe you think the incessant donuts and “scumbag” antics are tiring. Maybe you’re not a 16 year old kid, and can see that their target demographic is someone who can’t yet legally drive. I have to admit I […]
CFlo’s State of the Fleet Address Here at the DT offices double-wide in the sky, it seems everyone has some sort of cool project car, wacky daily driver, or cheap performance machine. I think I might be the most deranged though, because at any given moment I need more than two full hands of fingers […]
Installing an ATL Super Cell into the Black Iron Racing Bavarian Brougham (BMW E36 V8) Endurance Racer by CFlo In the constant quest to keep a terrible beater of a vehicle from falling apart during the undue stress of endless hours of endurance racing, the spectre of speed always looms. Sure, the name of the […]
DT’s resident clutch dumper CFlo has been tearing up the track in Black Iron Racing’s LM7 V8 powered BMW, read all about it in this article by Muliree Martin on Roadkill. Way to go CFlo, listener Dan, and NT!
or How to Build a Crappy Race Car out of a $200 BMW and an LM7 by CFlo With all of the V8 swapped oddballs we like to feature here on DT, we had to eventually start practicing what we preach. This build was over 3 years in the making, and we finally ran it […]
The 24 Hours of Lemons is the only race series where a sportbike-powered MR2, diesel 911 with googly eyes, and 2WD Jeep Cherokee can share the same corner. Rewind to 2006: My LeMons experience started when I found myself strapped into an E28 BMW 535i wearing Hoosiers while driving around the kidney bean shaped track […]
Next weekend (20-21st June, 2015) some of the DT staff are going to be hanging out with Black Iron Racing at the 24 Hrs of LeMons Button Turrible. Black Iron Racing is bringing out their MR Sakibomb, an AW11 MR2 powered by a Kawasaki Ninja engine riding shotgun and we’ll be drinking beer in the […]
As we mentioned a few days ago, Daily Turismo tagged along with Black Iron Racing at last weekend’s 24 Hours of Lemons endurance race at Chuckwalla Valley Raceway in Desert Center, CA. They call it Desert Center because it’s in the center of the desert…aka the middle of nowhere. Or depending on how you look at […]
The editors of DT spent some vacation this weekend in the pits of the Black Iron Racing’s low budget racer 24 Hours of Lemons team at Chuckwalla Valley Raceway. We apologize for the lack of regular updates on cheap cars, but with a wheel falling off the car, Exxon Valdez levels of fuel being spilled […]
Automotive blogs and magazines are known to sponsor race teams from time-to-time, such as a Touring Car team or a Time Attack Team but those are cohesive media organizations backed by conglomerates such as Source Interlink, and the Daily Turismo is a blog run out of a van down by the river. As a result we are starting […]