Newsletter 52-2018
Rück- und Ausblick sowie: Rangliste Auch bei «radical» können sich Leserinnen und Leser dem Jahresrückblick selbstverständlich nicht entziehen – wir finden das ja auch selber spannend, welche Stories...
Rück- und Ausblick sowie: Rangliste Auch bei «radical» können sich Leserinnen und Leser dem Jahresrückblick selbstverständlich nicht entziehen – wir finden das ja auch selber spannend, welche Stories...
Restomodded 1974 Volkswagen Thing for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: Recently invested more money on significant upgrades for my Thing which are listed near the bottom of this d...
Dad always filled his car trunk to capacity. Photo by Richard Lentinello. Dad’s car trunk was loaded with so many tools and emergency equipment it would have made a service station mechanic envious. ...
From the seller’s description: We are the third owners of this beautiful 1961 Mercury Monterey Convertible . We purchased this car from an 85 year old gentleman who in turn purchased the car from the...
Charles Kettering gets all the credit for inventing the self-starter for internal combustion engines and thus making gasoline-engine cars the dominant mode of transport today. But as John Heitmann at...
Unbegrenzt Weil unsere erste Story zum McLaren Speedtail unerklärlicherweise verschwunden ist, wollen wir dafür einige neue Details zeigen, damit man sich doch ein Bild des englischen Hypercars mache...
This 1979 Ford Falcon XD was built by Danny Probert at Xdrift Industries in Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia to compete in drifting. Under the hood sits a turbocharged Barra inline-six from a 20...
Loading the newly acquired 1965 donor car onto the flatbed. Photos by author. I very nearly gave up. After the fiasco with the blaster destroyed some important parts of the Corvair, and revealed some...
Date: January 1970 Location: St. Patrick’s Hill, Cork, Ireland Source: James O’Dea, courtesy National Library of Ireland What do you see here?
Alexander Stamsaas transformed his Toyota Corolla KE70 into a diesel race car in his garage in Norway. Under the hood sits a Mercedes 2.5 L OM605.960 inline-five with a compound twin-turbo system tha...
Restored 1969 Volvo 164 for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: This pristine, professionally restored 164 model is, as it would have looked the day it left the dealership. The highe...
Photos courtesy Kevin Mackay. The years-long ownership dispute over the last unrestored Briggs Cunningham Le Mans Corvette — a car that could be worth millions — may soon come to an end now that a ju...
Photo by Marco Verch. We can’t remember a year — at least in recent memory — that we were happier to see in the rearview mirror than 2018. From an automotive news perspective, it was the “dog’s break...
Matt Urch from Urchfab is back with an update on his “Mongrel” project. If you are unfamiliar with the build, the goal is to create a drift machine using a 1959 Ford Prefect 100E shell over a 2002 Ma...
Was für ein Schrauberjahr! Sagen wir einmal so: Es gab schon Jahre, da konnte ich weniger Erfolge verzeichnen. Gleich zwei erfolgreiche Rollouts mit Einzelabnahmen – so oft war ich noch nie auf der K...
Motoraver Verlag im Automuseum Prototyp Hamburg. Oktober 2018. Mit: Helge Thomsen, Michael Buss, Tobias Meyer, Norman Gocke, Christian Böhner, Peter Feierabend, Sascha de Syo und Martin Semmelrogge. ...
For 70 years one history has united us all. This is a celebration of that history. (EP:02) Patrick Long - https://youtu.be/grjZG8-3o0g (EP:04) Jeff Zwart - https://youtu.be/4Y0yv3d5Sn0 (EP:05) Nico S...
When we first heard of the automotive-centric series that our cousins up the hill at Condé Nast Entertainment had sold to Netflix, we were admittedly a little skeptical. “A drag race elimination show...
A little blurry, but check out this old snapshot: a radical ’51 Henry J on what looks like a homemade trailer behind a ’64 Galaxie at a dragstrip of Olden Tymes. If this isn’t the stuff bucket lists ...
The 1907 Thomas Flyer won the 1908 New York to Paris Race, and a recreation of its leather license plate is currently on display at the Western New York Welcome Center in Grand Island. Photo courtesy...
Leidensgeschichte Milt Brown hatte gar nicht mit David Brown von Aston Martin zu tun, ganz im Gegenteil, gerne wäre er in den 60er Jahren zu einem Konkurrenten geworden. Der Amerikaner Brown hatte sc...
Martin Stolton transformed his 1993 Ford Sierra Sapphire into a race car by dropping a lot of weight and replacing the powertrain. The four-door saloon now weighs 1,000 kg (2204 lb) even with a 6-poi...
From the seller’s description: Here is a very beautiful 1972 Mercedes Benz 280 SE . Finished in a very nice grey exterior on top of a black interior this sedan looks great. Both interior and exterior...
Photo courtesy Historic Electric Vehicle Foundation. At about 4,000 square feet, the Historic Electric Vehicle Foundation’s museum has only enough floor space for about a quarter of its collection. B...
Dan Gurney prepares to climb aboard the winning Ford GT40 Mk IV at Le Mans in 1967. Photo courtesy Ford Motor Company. Some were artists, who challenged our perspective or took us to worlds far bette...