As we close the book on the OnAllCylinders 10 year anniversary celebration, we’re taking a final look back at a decade’s worth of gearhead news, featured vehicles, and tech posts and picking our most popular or noteworthy stories. We’ll countdown each list, and you can scan a quick summary then click each post’s title to read the whole thing.
Today, we’ll look at news stories.
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10. Greg Anderson & Jason Line on NHRA’s Pro Stock Changes
Big doings were afoot in one of the NHRA’s most popular racing classes these last few years. We spoke with multiple championship-winning drivers Jason Line and Greg Anderson to get their take on the evolution of Pro Stock.
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9. Texas Motor Speedway Bans EV Race Cars Over Fire Concerns
Electric vehicles are becoming more and more common on racetracks worldwide, but as this article points out, there are some unique concerns that EVs bring to the motorsports table.
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8. Burt Reynolds’ 1977 ‘Smokey and the Bandit’ Trans Am Fetches $450K
Curiously, we have two auction-related stories in our list. The first features Burt Reynold’s personal Pontiac Trans Am and, not surprisingly, it crossed the block for close to half a mil. Get the details on this particular car here.
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7. Fox Bodies Pull in Big Paydays at Barrett-Jackson’s 2017 Scottsdale Auction
Our second auction story emphasizes that, yes, the Fox Body Mustang is officially a bona fide classic car now. Once found in every High School parking lot, pristine examples nowadays can go for beaucoup bucks.
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6. 7 ‘Vettes Out, 1 To Go at National Corvette Museum, See Before & After Pics Here
When a massive sinkhole opened underneath the National Corvette Museum and swallowed some rare Corvettes in the process, we covered the careful extraction of each car that was consumed.
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5. 13 Incredible Facts About the New Dodge SRT Demon
The revived Dodge Demon dominated automotive headlines for what seemed like an eternity prior to its release. We recapped some of the car’s more fascinating attributes in this article.
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4. Car Repair Not Illegal After Fed Grants Exemption
As the line between computers and cars continues to blur, so do the laws that govern how we’re able to work on them. Thankfully, an exemption from the Federal Government gave us plenty of room to tinker and tune.
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3. Popular Racer & TV Host Jessi Combs, 39, Dies During Speed Record Attempt
Losing a prominent ambassador of the gearhead community is never easy. But when Jessi Combs passed away during a tragic speed record run, it hit us all particularly hard.
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2. Don Garlits, 87, Sets Another Speed Record in Electric Dragster
Garlits, already a father of professional drag racing, is also one of the pioneers in electric drag racing. Not only did he shatter a record, he did so as an octogenarian. To call the man a legend is a serious understatement.
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1. Summit Racing Opens Fourth Super Store and Distribution Center
Self promotion aside, our web traffic numbers made it clear than when OnAllCylinders broke news that Summit Racing was putting a store in Arlington, Texas, people really, really (really) wanted know the details.
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There you have it, or top news stories of the first 10 years of OnAllCylinders. Thank you for your readership over the years—and we hope you stick around, because we’re just getting fired up.
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