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New mufflers on a 1987 Dodge Power Ram, exhaust swap

The Shop Truck #9 — Let’s “do” the exhaust

October 26, 2013

This portion of The Shop Truck restoration was made possible by Summit Racing Equipment. For over 40 years, Summit Racing Equipment has set and reset the standard for fast shipping, customer service, and tech e...

“Rush” Brings Classic Formula 1 to the Limelight

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October 23, 2013

Although it has received a less than stellar turnout at the box office over the last three weeks, Rush was a fantastic watch for a burgeoning gear-head like me, who knew very little about the tumultuous history...

Muscle Cars: Then and Now

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October 9, 2013

Muscle cars were starting to die out in the mid 1970s, and they were a distant memory by the 80s. The Mustang and Camaro bounced up and down in the car game throughout the 1990s and 2000s, and there were act...

2015 Cadillac Escalade Revealed

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October 8, 2013

Lets get one thing straight. The Escalade was cool in 2002. Yeah, it is a nice looking SUV that goes up against others in its class such as a Range Rover, but MTV and rap music killed this vehicle a long ti...

Anker announces a $12, 24-watt mini howitzer that can charge two tablets in your car

John M. Guilfoil

October 7, 2013

Anker, creator of some mixtures of pretty and functional have thrown together a $12 car charger that can power two iPads or other tablets at the same time with dual 24W 2.4 amp USB ports. The $11.99 charge...

Want A New Pontiac Trans-Am? Wait, What?

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September 19, 2013

The Pontiac Trans-Am is one of the most recognizable muscle cars of all time. I am a muscle car guy and am a sucker for a 1967 Shelby Mustang GT500 a.k.a "Eleanor" from Gone in 60 Seconds. If I could choose ...

The top 25 “Runner Up” cars

Paul Gluck

September 16, 2013

At this stage in the development of the Internet, we have all been subjected to lists. Specifically, the “Top random number movie and or TV and or animated cars list”. I know I have seen plenty of them. They ar...

New Corvette Stingray Tries The Nurburgring

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September 15, 2013

Here's a quick little bit for you - the new Corvette Stingray was reportedly taking some laps around the famed Nürburgring track in Germany. How was its time compared to some of the other cars that went aroun...

Audi Releases Another New Quattro Concept

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September 12, 2013

Audi is really itchin' to get a new Coupe Quattro in the dealerships. Just a few years ago in 2010 they presented us with an awesome Coupe Quattro concept. I guess you can argue that the A5/S5/RS5 i...

2015 BMW i8

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September 10, 2013

I'm a BMW guy. Always have been, and always will be. The new i8 really opened my eyes and truly showed me that BMW is really branching out into new territory. Call me old school, but give me an E36 M3 in Dak...

Most Valuable BMW Art Car Comes To Boston

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September 5, 2013

Most artists and BMW freaks know of the BMW Art Cars. These paintings with engines were brought to us by French racecar driver Herve Poulain. His goal: to have an artist use a car as a canva...

The Shop Truck #8 — Seafoam!

John M. Guilfoil

September 5, 2013

Every gearhead seems to love this. Maybe it's just the smoke, but something about Seafoaming an engine hearkens us back to the very roots of our car-loving, car fixing, car breaking beginnings. Seafoam is a ...

Raised From The Dead: Jeep Cherokee

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August 29, 2013

It has been called one of the greatest cars of all time – the Jeep Cherokee. Imagine that. A basic, little SUV is considered one of the greatest cars ever. That is how much of an impact the Cherokee left on ...

The Shop Truck #7 — How to wash your engine bay

John M. Guilfoil

August 26, 2013

Corey expertly covers the air cleaner/carburetor and the distributor cap. Just go for it, right? Wrong. After our trip to Little Foreign Car Garage to see Skipper Hull went, well, swimmingly, we were adv...

The Shop Truck #6 — What’s that coming out from underneath..ohhhh crap…

John M. Guilfoil

August 24, 2013

Son of a bitch. Yeah...it overheated As Corey introduced earlier this week, Blast Cars visited the Little Foreign Car Garage in Waltham to catch up with my old friend Ken "Skipper" Hull, who has been in ...

Evo pits Porsche 911 GT3 against McLaren MP4-12C and Nissan GT-R in amazing video

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August 23, 2013

The Brits, as usual, take car reviews to another level. In the vide above, Evo’s Jethro Bovingdon sets out winding and snaky European back roads to find out how the Porsche 911 GT3 does against competition ...

Is the Tesla S the safest car in the world? NHTSA says HOLD ON

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August 23, 2013

The government is refuting a claim made by Tesla that the Model S is the safest car ever tested, and that it received a "5.4" star rating. Tesla’s claim was recently challenged by the National Highway Traffi...

Michigan woman’s phone captures video of truck flying off the road into a ditch

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August 20, 2013

A woman captured a truck going off the road and diving right into a ditch in Lansing, Mich. using the popular Vine short video social media app. The driver was a 59-year-old man and was towing a lawnmower. W...

The Shop Truck Update: Marvel Mystery Oil didn’t work for lifter tick

John M. Guilfoil

August 19, 2013

Obviously, not every product works exactly the same way for exactly the same problem. But, sadly, we have to report that Marvel Mystery Oil did not do the trick for our Chrysler LA 318 engine's lifter tick. ...

The Shop Truck #5 — Cleaning Out the Doors

John M. Guilfoil

August 14, 2013

This is Zep 505 cleaner. I love it. Car restoration is glamorous right? A guy gets his hands dirty, uses a ratchet and some wrenches, maybe gets cut a few times. Women in the area get turned on. (Or a wo...

Blast Magazine was launched in 2007 with a simple thought — do journalism for the video game generation. We’ve really seen a lot since the 1980s. Nintendo Mega Man games, dial-up Internet, Dos, and the Palm Pilot were all in their infancy as we grew up. We shared files on 1.44MB (that’s MEGABYTE) floppy discs, and they were more than sufficient. As we grew up, the Internet blew up. Today you can stream a movie live in HD. Not only did HD not exist when we were growing up, but downloading a single, low-quality MP3 of our favorite song could take over an hour!

Technology developed quickly as we came of age, and we can claim to have mastered everything from iPads to Netflixes. But there is one thing that our generation did not have to grow up with — car maintenance.

A lot of us are interested in cars and trucks and motorcycles — this site wouldn’t be necessary if we weren’t. But how many Gen-Y’ers have ever had to change their oil? Change the brakes? Fix a cracked serpentine belt? Fixing cars was always something optional for us. We had to want to jack up a car and change a tire.

So now that we’re adults and we’re starting to recover from the crushing debt of our student loans, (We’re very bitter about this) we are finding our interests diversifying. If we were into cars already, we are getting more into cars. If we could never afford it, we are slowly raising our expectations. Say what you will, we are a curious generation.

Blast Cars is not exactly a beginners’ guide to the galaxy, but we’re not going to assume you know everything. We’re learning with you, and the experts we’ll bring into the process will walk both of us through everything we ever wanted to know about everything automotive.

In addition to restoring our Shop Truck, we are following some other Gen-Y restoration projects, including a racing bike. We’ll also bring you some relevant news, reviews, and rumors. We’ll even take a look at some of the most famous cars in movies, music, TV, true crime, and other popular culture. Let us know what you want to see!