Top 25 and Can Tow the Other Cars! (Click to see any picture full size) I give you a bitch’n five-pack of race inspired (ok, they’re pretty much full on race cars except for the Blazer) of 70s Chevy C10 trucks! As I said, the Optima Invitational was a diverse event, filled with the coolest and fastest cars from SEMA, and not just late model Camaros and Mustangs. I’ve seen some great looking C10′s bagged and laying frame in Arizona, but I haven’t seen any that could hold their own...

1966 Mustang Fastback – Pro-Touring on a Budget   One of the hightlights of the Optima Ultimate Street Car Invitational (aka OUSCI) was meeting Ron Schwarz, the owner of this extremely well done – homebuilt – 1966 Ford Mustang fastback. Sporting all the pro-touring trim, MyRideisMe.com featured this car long ago as part of a how-to story: Build A Pro-touring Mustang for $5000 The key point was, as you can imagine, “Do it yourself”. With a few stickers, new wheels and a new, budget blowing LS motor, Ron’s Schwarz’s...

More than just Camaros and Mustangs at the OUSCI (Click to see any picture full size) If you’re in the corporate world, you’ve heard about diversity. You’ve probably had some training on it so you can be more sensitive or some other nonsense like that.  The way I see it, different strokes for different folks and that’s never been more true than in the rides we choose. Am I right? At the Optima Ultimate Street Car Invitational (damn that’s a long name!) the race car diversity was on overload!...

At Speed and Sideways at the OUSCI Your guide to all that was GREAT at the 2012 Optima Ultimate Street Car Invitational. (Click to see any picture full size) Well… drowning in too many pictures of great looking and performing rides, I’ve spent too much time trying to make a great summary of the post-SEMA Optima race aka the OUSCI. So rather than attempt to dazzle you with my witty, yet descriptive account of the race, I’ll let my photos speak for me. Let me summarize: Great racing, I’ll...

My Ride in an Lamborghini Superleggara Ever been to SEMA? Then you’ve dreamed. When I stumbled upon this stunning orange Lamborghini in the Optima Batteries booth, was I dreaming to ride in it? Nah, probably not. There’d be no way… how could I make that happen? It’s more of a fantasy… not something that’d happen to me. Well it did! So what did I see in the booth? Allow me to elaborate: This is a 2011 Lamborghini Gallardo. To be more specific, it’s the Superleggera version.  Superleggera refers to...

For the past 4 years, Optima Ultimate Street Car Invitational has been bringing out the best of the best for real road-proving competition. Directly after the SEMA Show in November, chosen vehicles drive out to Spring Mountain Motorsports Ranch in Pahrump, NV. Each year, the competition has gotten hotter. Click here to see a 2-minute teaser on Optima’s YouTube Channel! This coming weekend is the first chance for you to see the action of all four catagories up close and personal on SPEED. The special’s premier will be this...

Portland International Raceway Rose Cup Half a century ago in the spring of 1961, something amazing happened in Portland, Oregon that changed the course of the city’s history as a racing and automotive town.  And it takes a little history lesson to really get what happened. When World War II came to America in December of 1941, the country suddenly needed a lot more ships than they had been producing. Portland was identified as a good safe place to build ships – it was 60 miles from the coast,...

Vintage Camaros, Mustangs, Chargers and AMC’s on the Track MyRideisMe.com doesn’t normally publish press releases, but since this is a track near and dear to me, I had to… plus, this just looks like a blast! 2011 Tour Begins with Sonoma Historic Motorsports Festival, Infineon Raceway Los Angeles (May 16, 2011) –  The Big Boys are back June 3-5, 2011, at the Sonoma Historic Motorsports Festival, being held at Infineon Raceway, Sonoma, CA. Bring the entire family for a day of incredible racing with the Historic Trans AM Racing...

Track Day Racing – What you need to know Every car enthusiast wants to drive on a race track – whether it’s a chance to hit the oval, cut a great light at the strip, or test your skills at a road course, the allure of the race track is obvious: there are no cops, no stoplights, and no minivans to pull out in front of you. It’s just you and the pavement. And maybe some walls. Many clubs offer open track days, driver schools, and other events where...

Datsun 510 For Sale at Bringatrailer.com To start your “My Ride is Me” obsession, you need to find that perfect car. So where to look? Instead of searching through disorganized and slow loading classifieds sites, check out BringaTrailer.com. The name might sound like basket-case junkers that need a flat bed to pickup, but that’s not it at all. Bringatrailer features everything from Obsure Fiat’s and Opels to mainstream hot rods and performance import cars. A car I’ve wanted to own for a long time is the Datsun 510. Here’s...

Gymkhana Racing in California Invitational only! This means that only professional race car drivers of various disciplines were invited for a no holds barred gymkhana match at Mr. Block’s home field, Toyota Speedway in Irwindale CA. The tire smoke has finally settled after the first ever competition style Gymkhana Grid event on December 4th 2010. The word around the digital informational highway is that the internationally hyped up event had definitely lived up to its expectations and best of all, it looks as though everyone, especially the drivers had...

AE86 Track Day in Cali Held by an organization called Drift Association, a time trial event dedicated just for the Toyota Corolla AE86 was held at the Streets of Willow track at Willow Springs International Raceway. The Toyota Corolla GT-S versions from 1984~1987 were stamped with a chassis code of AE86, and in Japan they are labeled as Trueno and Levin with different variations of front fascias. These cars have attained a sort of cult-like following mainly because of a popular Japanese Anime series “Initial-D” which features the underpowered...