So LeMons held a race at the famous Road America track a few days ago, not over the weekend like normal, and a few interesting cars turned up.
Here's a Cadillac Northstar V8 powering the rear wheels of a mid 90's Nissan Maxima.
My hat is off to this team, not just for the cool engine swap, but actually deciding to run a Northstar. There's been a few Northstar and Aurorastar (4.0 version that Olds had) in the series before, but they've always suffered some horrible failure which is normally the head gaskets. There was a Deville that raced at Summit Point back 2010 and they blew their engine at some point during the weekend, they opted to just leave the car there for dead rather than drag it home. Why would they do this? Because the NStar is notorious for being a bitch to work on even at the best of times, just changing the oil pan gasket will take you 12+ hours because so much shit needs to be removed just to get at it. From what I understand they had some hiccups during the race but were able to see the checker flag.
Then there's this Team Fortress 2 theme, those familiar with the game will understand it, those that don't... well it would take too long to explain it.
I'd love to do a TF2 theme one year, if only because of my resemblance to the Heavy.
There was also a late model Cavalier with the engine out of a Cobalt SS. Before you think "CHEATER!", it was the older supercharged 2.0 Ecotec making "only" 205hp and not the later turbo version which made 260hp.
And lastly, here are some pictures of a Star Spec tire that was torn to shreds in some sort of impact, I don't know the story behind it though.