Olelongrooffan has been posting a lot, both coverage of Nascar and LeMons

the new looks of Nascar, from John's post about the Nascar Coca Zero 400  http://oleragtop.blogspot.com/2011/07/day-at-races-with-kid.html

and to look at the LeMons http://oleragtop.blogspot.com/2011/07/at-24-hours-of-lemons.html because the cars are hilaroius to look at, and John has a lot of terrific photos of them

so enjoy John's blog, you'll probably recognize it, I've been recommending it for years http://oleragtop.blogspot.com/

The best stories about NASCAR cheating

http://www.popularmechanics.com/cars/news/vintage-speed/top-nascar-engineering-cheats
read all three pages, it's worth hitting the "Skip the ad" button.

Found on http://www.dogfightmag.com/blog

If you like this kind of thing, read more about Smokey's tricks http://choosingscars.blogspot.com/2006/12/new-smokey-story.html

For a visual on how flagrant the cheating was, look at the side by side comparison of Jr Johnson's Galaxie http://choosingscars.blogspot.com/2010/01/how-junior-johnson-made-1966-ford.html

or Richard Petty's 1968 Roadrunner http://choosingscars.blogspot.com/2010/01/natl-assoc-of-what-cars-heres-another.html

extremely great photos from 21 studs tumblr part 1

pre 1940's gas station, just an awesome photo, and a rare early color one
Only advertising big wheel I've ever seen, great idea!
Unusual Superbird with a 1970's funly paint job


3 ads in one dealership... Rambler, Jackson, and India, I like that slogan "No sand too deep, no hill too steep"

What are they doing with this elephant? Trying to break the car?
Rockwell was such a talented artist and pretty good at humor too


Clint Eastwood

Katherine Hepburn?

Petty on the left, Yarborough on the righ if I recall correctly, in the Woods Brothers Mercury
Jimi Hendrix

Why did Ford have more ugly Falcon models than good looking Mustangs?http://21studs.tumblr.com/ is where all of these came from

Musclecarblog.tumbler has a great focus on late 60's high performance musclecars, and Mopars particularly

Of course I love this R/T photo, I've got an R/T... and my last musclecar was a Superbee that looked exactly like the above R/T, with a bee on the grill instead of the rt.

For lots more great musclecar photos, and not just mopars: http://musclecarblog.tumblr.com

Possibly the only tucker to race is NASCAR

it's all written up, from Dan at Hemmings http://blog.hemmings.com/index.php/2008/12/24/seeing-really-is-believing-a-tucker-did-indeed-race-in-nascar-and-we-found-the-photo-to-prove-it/  helmed by Joe Merola of Braddock, Pennsylvania, at the 1950 Poor Man’s 500 at Canfield Speedway in Ohio.

http://blog.hemmings.com/index.php/2011/07/11/new-nascar-tucker-photo-surfaces/ for an update from July 2011

Smokey Yunick's early race cars

found on http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=428585

How they pave the high banks of Daytona

from http://whattayagonnado.wordpress.com/2010/12/17/paving-daytona-speedway-photos-quite-a-project-2/

1969 David Pearson #17 Holman Moody Ford Torino Cobra Talledega, is it the same car as the one in my banner?

Here's the original that I used for my banner above, it must be the following car... just different graphics due to circumstances

Holman Moody prepared Ford's first purpose-built NASCAR racer, the Torino Talledega, for Pearson, who won 11 races and his third championship.

Jim and Chesters Garage Tumblr has a lot of cool stuff!

An enclosed transporter made from a fire truck, not the first I've seen! Les made one http://choosingscars.blogspot.com/2008/06/68-ford-transporter-aint-that-cool-i.html

An Edsel racing Baja.. amazing

Above is the James Garner race team

from http://prova275.tumblr.com/ Jim and Chesters Garage Tumblr