James Dean's Porsche 550 Spyder vanished in 1960 and has never been found. Here's what's documented, and...
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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Tucci Hot Rods is converting a front-drive-based Ford Maverick to a twin-turbo Coyote V8 and ZF 8HP70...
Nissan's ZCON concept pulls the roof panels off the Z and adds restored NISMO LMGT2 wheels and...
Renault's R8 Gordini Concept is a two-door, 270-hp electric coupe that, like the 1964 original, drives the...
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