Shawn Henry

Shawn Henry is the guy who remembers the weird trim option nobody ordered and can tell you why it mattered. At Backfire News he covers off-road trucks and trail builds, performance cars, racing and the collector market, plus the new tech headed for your driveway. He'll get into the technical weeds, but he figures people read about cars because cars are fun, not because they want a spec sheet. His best stories are about people: the builds they pour money into, the road trips, the communities that form around one shared obsession.
Alpine’s Next A110 Arrived in Paris as a Draped Sculpture, and Its 2026 Electric Deadline Is Three Months Out Blue draped sculpture previewing the third-generation Alpine A110 on a floating black plinth

Alpine’s Next A110 Arrived in Paris as a Draped Sculpture, and Its 2026 Electric Deadline Is Three Months Out

Shawn Henry October 6, 2026 0
Alpine will show a draped sculpture previewing the third-generation A110 at the Paris Motor Show, with no...
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An 11-Year-Old Pleaded Not Guilty in Seminole County Court Over His 4,500-Watt Electric Dirt Bike Black electric dirt bike without pedals parked on a rocky trail

An 11-Year-Old Pleaded Not Guilty in Seminole County Court Over His 4,500-Watt Electric Dirt Bike

Shawn Henry October 4, 2026 0
An Oviedo sixth-grader entered a not-guilty plea to a misdemeanor registration charge after police classified his pedal-less...
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Billy Joel’s No-Reserve Auction Lists a 2008 Harley Knucklehead, 61 Years After the Last One Left Milwaukee Four Ducatis from the Billy Joel Motorcycle Collection

Billy Joel’s No-Reserve Auction Lists a 2008 Harley Knucklehead, 61 Years After the Last One Left Milwaukee

Shawn Henry October 4, 2026 0
Gooding Christie’s will auction more than 70 of Billy Joel’s motorcycles without reserve at New York’s Javits...
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Builders Said a Kentucky Battery Plant’s Owner Owed Them $138.4 Million, Got Accused of Overbilling, Then Bought the Plant in Bankruptcy

Shawn Henry October 1, 2026 0
Turner-Kokosing said Ascend Elements owed it $138.4 million. Ascend said it was overbilled. Now the contractor owns...
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Tempe Police Grappled a 140-MPH Corvette and Booked Its Driver on a Felony — A Year Later, No Case Shows Up in Superior Court Tempe police video still of a white C8 Corvette being stopped with a Grappler net on a city street

Tempe Police Grappled a 140-MPH Corvette and Booked Its Driver on a Felony — A Year Later, No Case Shows Up in Superior Court

Shawn Henry September 30, 2026 0
A white C8 Corvette crossed the Mill Avenue Bridge over Tempe Town Lake in Tempe, Arizona, on...
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The Team Owner Whose Crew Jumped Corey Heim Is Suspended Indefinitely. NASCAR’s Fine Was $2,000, and the Anger Management Isn’t Optional. Cars racing at Martinsville Speedway with the grandstands full

The Team Owner Whose Crew Jumped Corey Heim Is Suspended Indefinitely. NASCAR’s Fine Was $2,000, and the Anger Management Isn’t Optional.

Shawn Henry September 30, 2026 0
NASCAR suspended Chad Bryant and a crew member indefinitely, fined them and ordered anger management after the...
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