Ken Block Makes Smoke With his Ford Escort
Ken Block stopped by The Hoonigans to show off his 1978 Ford Escort MK2 he originally purchased for tarmac events but eventually built for a Gymkhana. Under the hood sits a 2.5 L Millington Diamond S...
Ken Block stopped by The Hoonigans to show off his 1978 Ford Escort MK2 he originally purchased for tarmac events but eventually built for a Gymkhana. Under the hood sits a 2.5 L Millington Diamond S...
1976 Oldsmobile 98 – could 18 mpg be possible, even without a tailwind? Photo by author. Installing overdrive transmissions into older cars is in vogue right now. And why not? After two decades on ou...
Forge Motorsports purchased a 1982 Volkswagen Golf in 2012 with the intention of showing off their fabrication skills. The team recently rebuilt the Golf with a John Player Special livery. Under the ...
Date: circa 1990 Location: 195 North Raymond Avenue, Pasadena, California Source: Historic American Engineering Record, via Library of Congress What do you see here?
Kevin Stittle took his K-Swift back to the track and Dave from Speed Academy was there to test drive it. Since our previous article Kevin upgraded the brakes and tossed the welded axles for some Driv...
HPOF-certified 1991 Mercury Grand Marquis for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: 4 door sedan with original white clearcoat paint and light charcoal accent stripes, original white c...
1930 Packard 740 Custom Super Eight. Photos courtesy of America’s Car Museum. The evolution of the automobile is best framed through a looking glass of pop culture by decade, since the two are indeli...
The era of turbocharged production motorcycles from Japan was short and not particularly sweet. But the novelty of turbo bikes today, combined with their low-production numbers, makes them fun and un...
Pikes Peak champion Jeff Zwart has fun sliding his 1953 Porsche 356 Pre A around Big Sky Movie Ranch. Filmed the same day we shot the Porsche Carrera 4 Rally film. Directed and edited by Will Roegge ...
This 1985 Dodge Ram D350 Crew Cab called “Gennie” was built by Humberto Ortiz, owner of Vulcan Specialties in Lubbock, Texas. Power comes from a built 5.9 L 6BT inline-six turbo diesel connected to a...
Die Beatles persönlich werden zwar nicht aufspielen, doch einen ihrer größten Klassiker kann Aston Martin-Chef Andy Palmer schon einmal in seine Playlist laden. Denn wenn die Briten im Sommer nächste...
When this 2000 Chevy S-10 Xtreme rolled out of the factory it was powered by a 4.3 L Vortec 4300 L35 V6. As extreme as the truck was, it only produced 180-190 horsepower and 245-250 lb-ft of torque. ...
My first sketches of what I thought my 1928 Model A coupe hot rod should look like. The exhaust headers were the focal point, as I was trying to develop some dramatic elements of the car. All photos ...
Al and Woody from The Skid Factory continue working on a friend’s 1970 Ford Fairlane. The goal is to replace the entire powertrain with a 4.0 L 1UZ V8 with a T66 turbocharger, A340 automatic transmis...
There's no denying that when it comes to the classic BMW lineup, the E21 seems all but forgotten. Overshadowed by the E30, and often lamented for its use of CIS injection, the E21 has fanatics for it...
Date: 1980 Location: West Main Street, Granville, New York Source: via Jim and Chester’s Garage What do you see here?
From the seller’s description: This 1940 Pontiac Deluxe Six Business Coupe has been with the same family for 62 years and was inherited by the seller from his grandfather in 2008. Part of the Pontiac...
1968 Yenko Super Camaro. Photos by David Newhardt, courtesy Mecum Auctions, unless otherwise noted. By anyone’s estimation, a 1968 Yenko Super Camaro is a rare car. Roughly 64 were built by Yenko Che...
Images courtesy the Auburn-Cord-Duesenberg Automobile Museum. Just as tape stripes and garish cartoon characters were hallmarks of performance cars in the 1970s, rakish windshields and a deck shaped ...
Porsche enthusiast Scott Blattner approached Singer Vehicle Design to develop performance and weight reduction modifications for his 1990 Porsche 964. Singer worked with Williams Advanced Engineering...
Jonny Moberg wanted a Toyota Starlet with some turbocharged Volvo power. Instead of shoving Volvo parts into the Starlet he decided to just weld the Volvo chassis under the Starlet body creating what...
1974 Volkswagen Thing Acapulco Edition; image by the author. When covering auctions for our print publications, a simple rule of thumb–that we do our best to adhere to–is to review a few extra vehicu...
This 1985 BMW 318i is for sale on eBay in Cary, North Carolina. The factory inline-four and five-speed manual were swapped for a 5.7 L LS1 V8 and T56 six-speed manual transmission from a 2001 Camaro ...
Date: February 1965 Location: Oak Ridge, Tennessee Source: Ed Westcott photo, via Department of Energy on Flickr What do you see here?
Early-build 1956 Lotus 11 for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: Chassis #150 was one of the first Lotus XI’s constructed. It was the very first to receive a chassis tag. The car st...