Tag: racing

The Fall 2015 Texas Invitational is coming to a runway in the Dallas, Texas area October 2-4. During that time, thousands and thousands of horsepower will be concentrated in one spot. Make sure you’re in the middle of it.

It’s so fitting that 72-year-old Richard Hutchins drag-races in a Chevrolet Rebellion because he refuses to do the things most people would expect him to do.

Meet a man who clearly celebrates the Fourth of July every day. Cleetus McFarland was built in America and he wants us all to know it. So was his 1969 big-block Camaro.

Today, the idea of a Chevrolet V8 powered a Ferrari seems a bit impossible. Back in the 1950s, when Ferrari racing was just starting to take off in the United States, some of those cars ended up with Chevrolet V8s in them.

“I love the exhilaration of the car heading down the track. I love the peace of me and the car being one. I love the fans. It’s a package. I can’t break it up!”

The COPO is perhaps one of the nuttiest Camaro runs ever to be produced and this new generation is definitely shaping up to be the nuttiest of all.

Both were game changers in their respective areas. Jim Hall and Hap Sharp founded Chaparral Cars in 1962 and shook the racing world at its core. Kazunori Yamauchi and Polyphony Digital created Gran Turismo and rocked the simulator world by bringing nearly realistic racing to homes everywhere thanks to the Sony Playstation.