Lot 744 at Barrett-Jackson’s Las Vegas auction is a 1956 Chevrolet Bel Air Custom Coupe, and if...
John Lloyd
John Lloyd is a staff writer at Backfire News, where he writes about the messier, more entertaining side of the car world—celebrity rides, motorsports drama, and whatever weird automotive thing happened to blow up online that week.
He's drawn to the spot where cars meet culture. One day that's breaking down why some celebrity just dropped a fortune on a hypercar; the next it's figuring out why a particular model is suddenly all over everyone's feed. He likes giving readers the context behind the headline, usually with a little attitude.
The way John sees it, most people don't think of cars as just transportation. They're status symbols, money pits, lifelong obsessions, and occasionally pure chaos—and that's exactly the stuff worth writing about.
You'll usually find him covering celebrity collections, viral car-culture moments, motorsports headlines, high-performance machines, and the trends moving the resale market.
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The recall Backfire flagged out of Canada back in August just went nationwide. The U.S. Consumer Product...
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Ford’s product planners built the 300 for 1963 with one goal: get people into a full-size Ford...
Every kid who’s ever begged for a go-kart runs into the same wall eventually. Karts themselves are...
Somewhere on a road right now, a piece of glass no bigger than a grain of sand...
Somewhere at a truck stop this week, a driver locked the cab of a Volvo VNL, walked...
Copart built its entire business on convincing buyers that a car with a bent frame or a...
Grab your mug — here’s everything that hit the site today, all in one place.1. Inside Isuzu’s...
Someone is finally facing charges over the break-in at Dave Marcis’ Arden, North Carolina home, and the...
