For Victor Munoz, the return of his father’s stolen 1969 Chevrolet Camaro should have been a moment...
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.
For decades, it was one of those stories that never sat right. A family leaves for a...
The legal fallout from the plane crash that killed NASCAR veteran Greg Biffle, his wife, their two...
Adria (Force) Hight, the eldest daughter of NHRA legend John Force and a foundational figure behind John...
A car this rare isn’t supposed to just disappear. Yet one of the world’s most exclusive hypercars...
What started as a simple call about a suspicious vehicle quickly exposed something far bigger. Police in...
A complete run of Hot Rod Magazine going back to 1948 just hit the market, and this...
Bollinger Motors is out of road, and its final inventory is headed to the auction block. What...
It sounds like a movie, but the reality is stranger. A 1974 Chevrolet Camaro Z28 sat hidden...
Most people get on the highway expecting the usual mix — commuters half paying attention, crossovers clogging...
A brand new Porsche 911 GT3 RS, finished in an eye-catching Gulf-style livery, ended up nose-first in...
There’s fast, and then there’s whatever the ZR48 Corvette Boat is. It isn’t just another flashy toy...
A high-speed chase in Miami didn’t just end in a crash. It ended in a blinding flash,...
A Newport Beach rental company just learned an expensive lesson about celebrity name-dropping: it’s one of the...
A late-night food delivery in Washington state turned into something far more serious than a wrong turn....
