On this, the one random day of the year we’ve chosen to pander to NASCAR enthusiasts with the Richard Petty Mechanix Illustrated profile we ran this morning, let’s take a look at a video Eric Shanks sent us, recreating the Henley Sequence from the film “The Social Network,” using NASCAR imagery instead of regatta imagery. […]

Apparently, at one point in time, Richard Petty’s mother told an interviewer that she didn’t name her son “Dick,” she named him “Richard.” Perhaps she stated that in response to articles like Jim McMichael’s profile on King Richard in the March 1961 issue of Mechanix Illustrated, in which he chummily mixes in a “Dick” here […]

Now that NASCAR’s 2011 season has officially started, we decided to comb through the Hemmings.com classifieds for something NASCAR related, and came upon this 1969 Dodge Charger 500. We actually see another Charger 500 and two Daytonas on the site now, as well, but this one’s rather unusual in that it’s no six-figure Hemi four-speed […]