OPTIMA Batteries and FM3 Performance Marketing announces the The 2nd annual OPTIMA Batteries Ultimate Street Car Invitational presented by Ridetech. The event is designed to give builders and owners of some the world’s most awesome street driven cars the opportunity to show their stuff on a closed circuit professional road-racing course. The event is held following the conclusion of the SEMA show and is intended to reflect the craftsmanship and performance of SEMA-quality vehicles and to promote those manufacturers and vendors that are closely associated with the automotive performance industry supported by SEMA and it’s members. The OPTIMA Batteries Ultimate Street Car Invitational presented by Ridetech is an exclusive invitation-only event designed to highlight the best-of-the-best street cars in the country.

The event will be a combination of styling, driving, handling and acceleration/braking. The goal of the event is to bring up to 40 of the best street cars in the world to the track and put them through their paces highlighting overall design, build quality and performance. Each event, styling, autocross, 0-60-0 and road course hot laps will be timed individually (styling will be judged) with the overall cumulative times being the final result. The lowest cumulative time for each vehicle, combined with styling points will determine the finishing order. Awards will be presented to the top three finishers in each event and “The OPTIMA Batteries Ultimate Street Car” award will be given to the vehicle posting the lowest cumulative time over the combined events. The styling portion of the event will be determined by a 4-judge panel of automotive industry styling and design professionals with points being awarded on a 1-10 scale (1 being the best and 10 being the worst). Style points will be added to the cumulative time for the final result.

A little rain didn’t stop us from putting on a show for their cameras. They captured some pretty cool video while they were here.

Disappearing Tire Trick – Burnout times 3 from Nation of GO on Vimeo.

BFGoodrich is behind the project, and what they have started has some huge potential. Imagine a web site where you can share photos of your ride, and your favorite places to drive. OK, we know, there are already web sites out there for that… but now imagine that you can download an app to your phone that automatically tracks your drive and places your photos on an interactive google earth style map… now you might be getting the picture of what these guys are about.

Take some time to check out the NATIONofGO.com
for more cool stuff!

OK so maybe it wasn’t a 106 to Chicago from the Chicagoland Speedway in Joliet Illinois site of the 3rd annual Goodguys Peak Chicagoland Nationals, but it sure was a whole lot of fun! The weather was about as good as it could be, all the folks I talked to were in good spirits and havin’ a ball. There was an autocross available for any registered participant who want to got out and race the clock. There were around 50 who hit the track and with nearly every pass improved upon their own times. Goodguys also had a track cruise on the high banked oval of the Chicagoland Speedway. All in all it was a really great time, on a really great venue, so if you’ve never been be sure to put this show on your list for next year… and who knows, maybe you’ll see Jake and Elwood cruising town.

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Check out the quote at about 3:50 into the second video – “The Air Ride Suspension saved our lives… at advanced speeds”.

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We currently have cages available for….

67-69 Camaro

70-81 Camaro

68-72 Chevelle (GM A Body)

Coming Soon
64-67 Chevelle (GM A Body)

Rodney has just finished up the proto-type for our 66 chevelle

The guys in the fabrication shop built this trick stand that holds all the parts for each application, this way we make sure you get all the pieces required to install your TigerCage the first time!

We also installed a TigerCage into Johnny Hunkins project g/28 2nd gen camaro. Johnny wrote a great article about it in the August issue of Popular Hot Rodding.

If you are wondering how to install one of these check out this video!