I just saw this article on the Top Gear site and it made me so incredibly happy. Richard Hammond goes through his 10 favourite muscle cars, in no particular order and says a little bit about each one as to why it is so good.

The reason this makes me happy? One of them is the Ford Capri!

mk1 ford capri

And Richard says about it

Last, but not least, and the only UK entry, is the Capri – a British Mustang, a masterpiece. It has a black bonnet and all bonnets should be black by law.

Mine has a black bonnet, kinda.

The others on the list were:

ford mustang fastback

plymouth road runner superbird

dodge charger

chevy nova

chevrolet camaro

challenger and coronet

Barracuda

Looking at that list just makes me want to say screw my savings and screw climate change I need a massive V8 in my life and now according to Richard Hammond I have the perfect muscle car for it to go in!

This story wins the award for most dedicated motoring photographer in the world!

A British photographer living in America called Andy Willsheer was doing his usual shooting at Pomona Raceway in California when Steve Gasparelli’s 7000 horsepower funny car slipped on launch and started veering directly towards the Brit snapper, who calmly carried on pointing his camera at the out of control dragster to capture some amazing photos.

This is the series of pictures that he snapped.

Amazing photo’s I think you will agree but even more amazing when you remember this wasn’t with a zoom or something, as can be shown by this picture.

Balls Of Steel!

It is that time of year again when people all up and down the country are putting on their new running shoes and stretching on the Lycra to start training for the 2010 London marathon.

The silly fools!

I understand it is all for charity and it must be a pretty amazing feeling to actually complete the epic race but I can assure you that you will never get me doing the London marathon unless I was hired as a driver for one of the camera bikes or cars. It is quite funny watching the footage on TV though because every now and again you get too see one of the bikes lose concentration for a bit and crash into the back of one of the TV cars.

However the reason I’m making this post is because I think I have found a genius marketing idea for TV crews covering the event. Use an awesome Lowrider or Muscle car! Think about it how many shots of your car would be splashed around the news just because it would be an interesting talking point?! Have your company/slogan up the side and you just got yourself loads of awesome advertising for free.

So basically, TV crews, you need to find yourself an awesome car to use. Bonus points if you use something with a V8 in it that drowns out the sound of anything else in the immediate area…

Something like this would be good

I came across these HDR pictures of a scooby rallying and I am properly stunned! They look like paintings or completely fake computer drawings, The colours are just fantastic.

Via exxx2005 on DeviantART