A pole barn near Pennfield holding seven or eight muscle cars caught fire, and the fuel stored alongside the cars kept the flames going for hours after crews arrived. Pole barns are the default storage for collector cars across rural America, but they offer almost none of the fire protection of a dedicated garage. Here is what happened, why these fires are so hard to contain, and what every owner storing a collection under one roof should change.
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Under the hood of this fastback sits an all-aluminum, four-cam V8 that was built to win at Indianapolis, not to sit at a stoplight. It belongs to a family of engines that took three consecutive Indy 500 victories and ended the Offenhauser era before turbocharging brought it back. Getting one to idle in traffic required rethinking almost everything about how it breathes. Read on for what that actually took.
A grudge match between Rody V and Danny D starts as a straightforward test of nerve and reaction time, then turns into the kind of footage its own uploader chose not to edit around. Viewers in the comments zero in on the moment things go wrong, and on how the local track’s emergency response handled it. It’s a video built around a lesson, not a trophy.
