This past weekend was another day of watching incredible vintage racing machines tear around on a stretch of runway at Coronado Navy Base in San Diego. The 2017 Coronado Speed Festival was just as great as previous years, and the weather in America’s Finest City couldn’t have been better. Click here to access a collection […]
The middle of an active Navy base might seem like the worst place to drive a car with 800 horsepower in an angry pack of other like minded lunatics, but that is exactly what has happened every September since 1997. This weekend, Sept 17, 18 is the 2016 Coronado Speed Festival, hosted by the SVRA, […]
This past weekend I had the extreme fortune of attending the 2015 Coronado Speed Festival, hosted by the SVRA, and run on the North Island Navy base as part of the Fleet Week celebrations. This is an event I’ve attended in the past, but this year someone handed me a yellow safety vest and told […]
-by Hunsbloger: I miss Andy Rooney on Sunday nights. As I get older and my eyebrows are starting to look more like his, I’m beginning to understand how certain things just caught his attention, even though they escaped the notice of others (Squirrel!) Vince gave a more complete account of the races, so I figured […]
Welcome to the Coffee Brake, where we discuss things other than the best custom Fiero-Camino hybrids. Every year I look forward to the summer festival of awesome machinery known as the Monterey Historics at Laguna Seca…however, due to family/DT/other commitments I was unable to attend the annual pilgrimage to worship at the house of the […]
Snake experts say that baby cobra bites are the most fatal because they inject their entire venom supply into their victims instead of metering out a small amounts like an adult cobra, but we think that baby cobras are lighter, faster and more maneuverable than the grown up version. We are talking about V8 swapped […]
Fleet Week is San Diego’s annual celebration of cool military toys and includes a unique historic race on the old Coronado Naval Air Base runway. Like most everything in San Diego – the Speed Festival is a laid-back affair and seems more like a local car show than a big time race- but lots of […]
As we mentioned the other day, DT was able to attend the Coronado Speed Festival (we will do a full writeup with pics after we recover from sunburn and photoshop the lens dirt out of our images) and we found a bit of RoadKill that turned into a Seller Submission. This DT exclusive 1960 Austin […]