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Ringbrothers Prestone Javelin Debuts at SEMA 2017

By RK Motors - Nov 01, 2017

Custom Bodywork and 1,080 Hemi Horsepower When Prestone wanted a vehicle to celebrate their 90s anniversary, Mike and Jim Ri...

A new Tucker, true to the original, debuts at SEMA

By RK Motors - Nov 01, 2017

You can't go out and buy a Tucker 48. Not really, at least. First, you’d need to find one of the 47 (depending on how you cou...

SEMA this week in Las Vegas is automobile enthusiasts' heaven

By RK Motors - Oct 30, 2017

The latest and greatest in automobile customization will take center stage in Las Vegas as SEMA returns this week. In its 51...

Man Buys Flood-Damaged Car At Auction And Incredibly Finds That It Was His Uncle's Old Race Car

By RK Motors - Oct 27, 2017

When Alvin Pharis was a kid in the 1960s, he had an uncle named Clifford who used to race cars. Clifford was a drag racer, st...

2018 COPO Camaro Hot Wheels 50th Anniversary Edition

By RK Motors - Oct 27, 2017

Chevrolet revealed the 2018 COPO Camaro recently at Hot Wheels headquarters in conjunction with the announcement of the 2018 ...

Very Rare 1970 Mercury Cougar Boss Eliminator May Be the Finest Unrestored Example in Existence

By RK Motors - Oct 23, 2017

Maybe if Mercury had simply called its Boss 302–powered Cougar a Boss 302, production would have totaled more than 638 units ...

Ford Bringing Seven 2018 Mustang Show Cars To SEMA

By RK Motors - Oct 20, 2017

Tricked-out ponies include cool cop car Ford always brings out a fleet of wild show cars to the Specialty Equipment Market A...

'It's a bit of pride': the last Holden marks an end to car manufacturing in Australia

By RK Motors - Oct 19, 2017

At 5.45am on Thursday, three generations of the Grant family piled in to a Holden Commodore and pulled out of their driveway ...

The Birth Of Outlaw Hot Rodding

By RK Motors - Oct 18, 2017

JB Cochran was my grandfather. He ran and operated Cochran Garage in Ada, OK from the late 1930’s until he eassed away at an ...

Goodguys Rolls Into Charlotte for the 24th Southeastern Nationals

By Josh Leatherwood - Oct 16, 2017

It's peppering rain in Charlotte on this cool Monday morning. But, like the scene around the Charlotte Motor Speedway, things...

Amelia Island Concours partners with Historic Sportscar Racing to present Classic 24 Hour at Daytona

By RK Motors - Oct 16, 2017

In 2014, Historic Sportscar Racing (HSR) debuted a new 24-hour vintage racing event at Daytona International Raceway. In the ...

JL Wrangler Owner's Manual Revealed

By RK Motors - Oct 15, 2017

Here it is folks, everything you want to know about the JL Wrangler—but you just can’t drive it yet. A PDF copy of the owner...

1970 Oldsmobile Cutlass Build

By Josh Leatherwood - Oct 10, 2017

When we reflect on great times spent with family, those memories are often built around a common token. Something that, altho...

RK Motors Visits The Petty Museum and Petty's Garage

By Josh Leatherwood - Oct 04, 2017

NASCAR is synonymous with North Carolina. From Asheville legends Banjo Matthews, Jack Ingram and the Pressleys to piedmont st...

RK Motors Participates In The Celebration of Speed

By Josh Leatherwood - Sep 30, 2017

Speed, racing and incredible cars go hand in hand, kind of like enthusiasts, incredible cars and the name Petty. So, when The...

12 Ways to Ruin a Restoration -- And How to Avoid Them

By RK Motors - Sep 28, 2017

Time is money. Nothing could be truer when it comes to restoring a muscle car, because whether it is plowing forward with a s...

Two Trans-Am Icons Found Stashed in the Same Barn: 1969 Chevrolet Camaro Z/28 & 1970 Plymouth AAR ’Cuda

By RK Motors - Sep 28, 2017

  "You find a good car, you cannot sit,” Matt Barczak says. Just 35 years old, Matt feels he was born 30 years too late. “I ...

Joe Bailon, Inventor of Candy Apple Red, Dies At Age 96

By RK Motors - Sep 27, 2017

  Lay down a coat of gold first, then red atop that, then follow that with a clear coat with some red mixed into it and you ...