Joe Cooksey

The new Honda Civic Type-R is the automaker's ticket in bringing back the Type-R badge to local showrooms. According to Honda Australia's Senior Director Lindsay Smalley, "We believe buyers are starting to look beyond stripped-out boy racer specials and petrol-guzzling V8s, turning to cars more in tune with today's times. Buyers in this sector still want cars that are sporty and fun to drive yet are more refined, comfortable and practical. It's not just all about the power. It is the whole experience and grown-up buyers understand that." The remarks of Smalley were likened to the comments that a manufacturer would make before the unveiling of a model that lacks in refinement, fun criteria, and...

What are French Doors? French Door, is a type of door, is extremely popular and is extensively used allover the world. They are generally set up in pairs that if opened together, create a large entrance to the home. The glass panels in the door provide a lovely view of the outside world when closed. We say that the French Doors bring the outdoor inside your home. Through their combinations of window paneling they provide a nice outdoor view. Door Construction French Doors come in different varieties. The frame can be wooden, metallic, or fiberglass. The wooden frame lends a softer interior look and is available in many varieties of hardwood species that can be painted or customized in any preferable...

NASCARs biggest names support the Military Most of the Top names in NASCAR racing have teamed up with the Yellow Ribbon Team to Salute the Military. Dale Earnhardt Jr., Jeff Gordon, Jimmy Johnson, Kyle bush, Kevin Harvick, Tony Stewardt, Carl Edwards and Casey Mears all support the Military and have been on the Yellow Ribbon Team Radio Show. Click To hear from your favorite drivers The Auto Club Speedway is holding Labor Day's biggest party August 29, 30 and 31. The Navy Race team will be in Action on Saturday August 30th. Command Master Chief Kurt Dessert, Navy Recruiting District San Francisco is making the dreams come true for one of our Sailors. AM1 Andrew Miller is a huge NASCAR fan...

Mike Tredway of Lebanon, Missouri has spent the better part of his life as an over the road truck driver. He knows the highways and back roads of our great United States and Canada like the back of his hand. Whats more so, is that he also spent many years working on these big rigs and then later he began rebuilding cars and trucks that had been wrecked. One look at Mike, and 10 minutes into any conversation with him, you will immediately peg him as a trucker. His real passion, however, is building Peterbilt Pick-Up Trucks. Meshing together the chassis of full size pick up trucks such as Cheverolet,Dodge,Ford and GMC with the bigger dogs such as Peterbilt,Freightliner,Mack, etc., is the perfect blend...

Though the 2008 Pontiac G8 will be available in dealerships early next year, Pontiac introduced its all-new, rear-wheel-drive performance sedan at the Chicago Auto Show. As the first North American application of General Motors (GM) new global rear-wheel-drive architecture, the G8 is developed by GM's Australian subsidiary Holden. The G8 has a styling packages such as a dual-port grille, fog lamps, bold wheels and a confident, wheels-at-the-corners stance. The design accents the car's performance lineage, with fenders that flare over the wheels, seemingly hugging the wide tires, making it very sporty. Distinctive elements include hood scoops and front fender vents, and projector-beam headlamps...

There are so many simple, yet really sure-fire ways of acquiring wealth, it's a wonder everybody with even the least bit of ambition isn't already rich. When you come right down to it, the only things needed for anyone to make bundles of money are the long-range vision and the energy to put a money-making plan into force. One of the easiest methods of building wealth, and the one most often used by the "smart" people is to furnish the expertise, equipment or growth capital to promising beginning businesses. Basically, you buy in as either a part owner or limited partner; then, as the business grows and prospers with your help, you reap your share of the rewards. The beautiful part about this whole...

Tell you what, being young was brilliant. Yes, I know I'm only 24 now, but I'm talking about when I was six or seven and could play with my toy cars, build vehicles that defied the laws of physics out of Lego and race my dad on Scalextric. Sitting in the cinema recently I watched Speed Racer (I believe I make up exactly 100% of the world's population that has viewed said film) and I really rather enjoyed it. Set in the future, the crux of the film revolved around a lad handily called Speed Racer who raced around a full size Scalextric track in a futuristic car. Many gravity defining minutes later, with bright neon lights whizzing past my eyes I was hooked - the drive home never seemed so slow and...

Are you a big fan of Madonna? If you are, then this is your chance to have one of her cars. The original Material Girl Madonna is currently putting her BMW 7-Series on sale at Auto Trader. Madonna is the only owner of this 2002 BMW 745 Li, loaded with a range of luxury features and quality auto components just like the BMW 320 parts which is not really surprising, first of all because it's a BMW and second it's owned by the Queen of Pop who wants nothing more but the best. Anyway, Madonna's 2002 BMW 745 Li is powered by a 4.4 liter V8 and produces 333bhp and 332 lb-ft of pulling power. It can also sprint from 0 to 62 mph (100kph) in a matter of 6.3 seconds before running out of puff at an...

Lewis Hamilton is aiming for this season to start in order for him to begin his race for the World Championship as the Formula One formally kicks off this weekend in Melbourne, Australia. Just one year ago he finished third on his first Grand Prix at Albert Park, but what really caught the eye of the public is the fierce some competitively against his team mate Fernando Alonso. He enjoyed his first rookie season like no other has done it in Formula One; he had a great year claiming four victories and eventually losing the World Championship against the Finn Kimi Raikonen; Ferrari's driver by just two points. Hamilton believes he can really improve from last year's results and he thinks he has more...

A diecast toy is a toy made of plastic and a special metal called Zamak which is a mix of zinc and aluminum. Most of the usual toys made through the die-casting method are the scale models of cars, trains, plains and construction equipment. Most of these toys are usually collectible toys like for example the very famous Mach 5 from the Speed racer animated series. Nowadays most of the real means of transportations as well as some fictional ones are made through this method. The good thing about the diecast toys is that they can be identical with the real size original. They can have all kind of features to describe the real thing. These kinds of toys became popular as collectibles during the 50s...

The 96" Holdem Table - Red Felt is a classic Casino grade poker table for your home. Let us review the 96" Holdem Table - Red Felt and find out more about this table. If you are looking for a casino grade poker table for your house, the 96" Holdem Table - Red Felt can be your choice. It has got all the features that are required to call it a high end casino poker table. When I checked out this product I was quite stunned by its great looks and wanted to buy a piece for myself. However, with one table already occupying space in my poker room, I decided otherwise. This table has got all the ingredients that will make your gaming room stand apart from others. The first thing that will catch your eye is...

DOWAGIAC - David Helmke, his cousin Jay White III and Jay's wife Brooke captured three of the top four places in the Unique Motor Sports Demolition Derby Saturday night at the Berrien County Youth Fair in Berrien Springs, which is why there were three demolished cars - two Lincoln Town Cars and Jay's "Tony Stewart orange" Ford Mercury Grand Marquis, all with Chevy engines - beside Clinton Street Monday. Helmke, a former football player who won a total of $650, said, "I'm still smashing stuff up. Before I was smashing heads, now I'm smashing cars." "There were probably 50 cars that showed up," Jay said. "It's one of the bigger derbies in Michigan" with five qualifying heats leading to the feature...

Martin Truex Jr. was born in Mayetta, New Jersey on June 29, 1980. He is a second generation racer in his family. His father, Martin Truex Sr. was a winner in the Busch North Series and was heralded as a successful modified driver. Truex Sr. was already a successful racer in the Northeast by the time Truex Jr. was ready to take up racing. As young as he was, Truex Jr. always knew that the race tracks were made for him. He was already racing go-karts at the tender age of 11. By the time Truex Jr. was 14, he had won the Junior Championship and the New Jersey Championship Series at the New Egypt Speedway. He then proved this to be the starting point for what would turn out to be a very lucrative stock...

Even though NASCAR started as a backwoods illegal race to run moonshine, it has today evolved into a sport that is not only entertaining but depends on physics too. The obvious element in the physics of NASCAR is the aerodynamic design required by these cars in order to achieve top speeds of near 200 mph with the minimum drag coefficient. But there are other forces involved too such as Newtons Law of Motion and centripetal force. Newtons Law of Motion states that a body will remain in motion unless it is acted upon by some external force. In outer space for example, in the absence of gravity, an object will go on forever. So there are forces that resist the movement of a NASCAR vehicle such as wind...

Shop for NASCAR Authentic Race Memorabilia at Getofficially licensed Driver Championship Framed collectibles in a limited edition of 548 and includes an actual piece of race-used tire from the NASCAR NEXTEL Cup Champion's winning car. The 15" x 17" x 2" double matted and framed piece also features a glossy 8" x 10" photo from his championship-clinching performance, and includes a statement of authenticity from Mounted Memories and Hendrick Motorsports. Purchase Nascar gear to will stay warm while watching Dale Earnhardt, Jr. speed past the competition in a Ahead of the Rest 1/4 zip mock-neck polyester Chiller Fleece from Chase Authentics. The contrast color dazzle overlay piecing on the sleeves and...

Small engines, like those in your standard golf cart or mower, can receive excessive wear when they aren't properly maintained, and this wear can result in both a loss of power and an increased likelihood of electrical systems failing when attempting to use an electric starter. You can eliminate the potential problem by replacing your engine using a small engine rebuild kit that replaces your older flat head engine to a Kohler small engine. There are dramatic improvements that can be made should you choose to install a Kohler Command-11 in your golf cart instead of some of the other small engine options that are available on the market today. To better understand the advantage of choosing the Kohler...

BMW has always had reasons to gloat, it is undoubtedly, one of the leading carmakers when it comes to producing great, and we mean, great, cars. In fact the latest consumer satisfaction survey has once again revealed that BMW is a winner. And a big one. The company's X5 sports activity vehicle -- built at BMW Manufacturing Co.'s Greer plant -- the BMW 3 series and the BMW 6 series all topped their categories in the J.D. Power and Associates 2007 APEAL survey. The BMW 5 series and 7 series were runners up in their categories. The BMW X5 topped the midsize premium multi-activity vehicle segment. That segment includes SUVs and trucks. A second-generation SUV, the redesigned X5 was launched last...

Last Monday, Toyota Motor Corp. unveiled a new technology which the automaker claims to be the world's true-to life driving simulator with its safety features aimed at not just reducing but eliminating traffic-related mortalities. Toyota's demonstration was held at the Higashifuji Technical Center near Mt. Fuji in Tokyo. Toyota's new safety equipment showed the participants composed of journalists on how it detects unusual driving behaviors like drunkenness and drowsiness. The warehouse-sized structure features a dome-shaped pod perched atop a turntable on a track that slides in all four directions at angles of up to 25 degrees to mimic the sensation of accelerating, braking and turning in different...

Let's be real. How many times have you sat down at the movie theatre and seen a cool car that you thought you would love to have? You know you wanted that Batmobile. I know I did! Now, you can find those famous car replicas and can piece them together yourself! How cool is that? Varying Degrees of Difficulty Before you try to do this though, some of them are a bit trickier than your typical model car. So, know beforehand what you want to take on. This is especially so since the model car producers try to add some features that you must put together yourself. Sure the Batmobile looked cool on the widescreen with all it could do, but what about when you have to start gluing those pieces on? Don't get...

Aluminum tubing is used in many different ways from the race track to household appliances and drinks cans. Aluminum is an excellent choice of metal as it has many desirable properties - it is cheap, widely available, easy to machine, hard to corrode, light weight and extremely tough and durable, in fact aluminum is around one third the weight of steel but almost as strong as some low carbon steel. Add to this the fact that aluminum extrusion produces incredibly cheap, yet high standard aluminum tubing, and there is little wonder that it is used on a large scale today. Aluminum tubing can be made to a customer's exact requirements and the lengths can be easily cut to specifications. There are so...

Dropshipping Tips and Turnkey Dropship Websites At Cost: Your dropshipper will the ship to your customer's address (which you will supply to them) they will deliver it in an unmarked package. There is much discussion throughout Usenet, chat rooms and forums about drop shippers, and I have sat through many heated threads about the subject. Many will tell you that drop shipping is a scam, it don't work, you'll never make any money...But I know these things just not to be true, as I have talked with those doing it, work with those who do, and am the webmaster of the site belonging to someone who manufactures and drop ships his products. I have also used this method in the past. First of all, using drop...

Tenneco has introduced the Controlled Electronic Suspension (CES) system on the new Mercedes-Benz C- Class that was launched in Stuttgart on the first quarter of the year. Tenneco Chief Executive Officer Gregg Sherrill said their commitment to collaborate different concept on cars helps in the assurance that they give advanced suspension technology on vehicles plus excellent ride and handling characteristics. Tenneco Inc. was very pleased supplying the new Mercedes-Benz C-Class with their electronic suspension technology. The CES sets the car to road conditions and also to driver actions. This results to a better comfort and stability. This further allows Tenneco to tune vehicles in order to adapt...

The BMW M3 was a well thought out car, as development of the car begun as far back as 1981, and continued for almost six years prior to its total production in 1986. The original concept of the BMW M3 was grounded in foundations from the E30 3Series car, a famous performance car with rich background. The E30 M3 later would spawn and encourage numerous other models within the 3 Series. BMW Motorsport, previously produced the E12 M535i Saloons, M635Csi, and the M1 supercar, and those cars were designed for superior racing performance, but those cars could only garner limited appeal. The main idea about the E30 M3 was to snag a wider audience both on and off the racetrack. When the decision was made by...