Piecemeal Effort – Joel Vandiver’s 2008 Dodge Challenger is something of an oddity in...

Owner: Joel Vandiver Year: 2008 Make: Dodge Model: Challenger Weight: 3,800 lbs. with driver and fuel Engine: 7.0-liter Hemi, 465 whp Suspension:   Front: Eibach multi pro R2 springs and dampers, Razorsedge upper control arms Rear: Eibach multi pro R2 springs and...

Craigslist Champion – NASA Rocky Mountain’s John Scheier Proves GTS Cars Don’t Have to...

It’s probably safe to say a lot of NASA racers check Craigslist regularly looking for what one day could become their next racecar. So,...

K&N Engineering’s road race-prepped Mustang initially was intended for other purposes

When K&N took delivery of this “body-in-white” 2014 Ford Mustang GT, the company’s goal wasn’t to build it into a road racer. It was...

Taking an E36 From Mild to Wild

A basic 328is with the coveted winter package. That’s what 19-year-old Maxwell Lisovsky found on Facebook Marketplace several years ago. The car had been...

Tackling ST4 in a Honda S2000

After years of working on Grand-Am cars, Aaron Topal had a pretty strong sense of what mattered in a track car. His desire for...

Midwestern Exotic – Sam Mangiameli’s Diasio D962R sports racer blends the best of three...

The Diasio D962R blends a chassis made in the United States with an engine built in Japan and a transmission made in the United...

A Living History: Inside Mazda’s Heritage Racing Car Collection

Lots of car companies house their important historic racing cars in a museum. Mazda keeps many of its significant racing cars in its Heritage...

Racing a Porsche Without the Porsche Tax

Peter Hopelain of Technik Competition and Peter Jones of Legacy Motorworks have spent several years with the 986 Boxster, but before that, they focused...

Racing — and Winning — in a Used Volkswagen

If you look around at, for example, the ST4 scene in Northern California, it’s pretty clear how you move to the front of the...

A Different Kind of Racecar – from Spring Hill to Thunderhill, This Saturn SC2...

Roman Vaisman’s 1996 Saturn SC2 began life like every other Saturn at GM’s manufacturing facility in Spring Hill, Tenn. It went to California, served...

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