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more about #daytona more comments → pauljones: I think it's great. Unlike the latest attempts at recreating the Trans Am, this actually doesn't look like a satirical caricature of the original. ... more » GreenN_Gold: This could have been executed a little better, but I'm glad someone had some fun with it. These images look fake for some reason, and the seats are a... more » Pessimippopotamus: That... actually looks awesome. I was going to berate it, but it looks pretty sweet. #dodgechallenger more » Elhigh: I had an opportunity to buy an original about 24 years ago - just $3500. The guy had died and his wife just wanted the car gone. I had $3500, but I ... more » Novaload: Here's a flash: The government is not going to take away all your vehicles and force you to drive these. I can't believe the haterade here. It's jus... more » that ain't the way to have fun, son: Some folks need to revisit their history books. That's a 'Bird nose. And they obviously didn't read the reason for the scoops over the front wheels... more » Sloop_John_B: Damn it. I love the Superbird/Daytona, and I desperately want to love this too. However, it's just not working. *Puts on sadface. #dodgechallenger more » ArtForge: This is what I see when I look at this. BTW, I love wing cars. But this, ouch. #dodgechallenger more » clinto: Notice how most of the letters required to spell "hideous" are already present in "Heide"? Coincidence? I think not! #dodgechallenger more » skaycog was here: I think Heide Performance Products failed the challenge with that front end. #dodgechallenger more » tonyola: The front end looks more like a Superbird than a Daytona. Actually, with the pointed center, it looks like a Pontiac. The picture with the car alongsi... more » mr_dude: A body kit, big wing, and 'nothing tweaked beneath the hood'. I guess that's the natural progression from the factory heavy, impotent retromobile. #d... more » UDMan: I saw this thing at SEMA, and all I could say was how hideous the thing looked. It was bad enough with the 200 or so Camaros, and the 150 or so Mustan... more » theeastbaykid: "Man, that was...[don't say awesome, don't say awesome, don't say awesome]...brutal?" more » TimTim: I was there, hangin' out with my fellow rednecks. That race was not very exciting... 'bout what all the stereotypes pin on NASCAR, especially since D... more » -
#customcars
HPP Daytona: Challenger Gets Even More Radically Retro
In case you hadn't noticed, the Dodge Challenger is already pretty retro, but the fellows at Heide Performance Products have turned the retro up to 11 with the HPP Daytona, a Dodge Charger Daytona re-imagined on a Challenger chassis. More » -
#crashweek
Anatomy Of A NASCAR Mega-Crash
With just one lap to go in the Coke Zero 400 leader Kyle Busch crashes trying to block Tony Stewart in the final turn as cars fly across the finish line. A blow-by-blow CSI-style analysis of the carnage below. More » -
#carart
Ferrari Daytona ASCII Art
Rising to the challenge of creating a Daytona is the author of the ASCII Miura, Péter Fűri. Note the headlight treatment, the great use of a tilde as the Ferrari logo and the velocity stacks. -
#2010chevycamaro
2010 Chevy Camaro: Official Daytona 500 Pacecar
We told you it was coming. Now it's official. Our good friends at Camaro5 have the first live shots of the 2010 Camaro Daytona 500 Pace Car taken at the track.
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#downonthestreet
1986 Dodge Daytona Turbo Z
Welcome to Down On The Street, where we admire old vehicles found parked on the streets of the Island That Rust Forgot: Alameda, California. Here's a type of car I've been hunting for since this series began, a machine so 80s it's like Ollie North in pink leg warmers: the Dodge Daytona Turbo Z! We've seen some members of the extended Chrysler K Family (such as this Aries and this Reliant), but now it's time to see one of the sporty Ks (technically a G, but close enough).
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#toptennascarcrashes
Top Ten Most Important NASCAR Crashes Of All Time
Our friends at Popular Mechanics have put together a list of what they consider the top ten most influential crashes in NASCAR history, complete with video. These ten smash-ups were influential not in how they changed the course of a single race, but in how they got us to today's "Car of Tomorrow," a race car that is to "stock car" what the Republican Party is to "conservatives." That is to say, it's become nothing at all like a real for-sale car, and therefore not-at-all interesting to most hardcore gearheads. But maybe we all just need a reminder of how the "sport" got to be where it is today. Popular Mechanics has put together this list, with video clips, of ten big wrecks that provoked change in NASCAR. More »
