Photography courtesy of the Rocky Rotella collection. Considering the emphasis placed on eliminating impaired driving today, be it due to alcohol, drugs, or other distractions such as texting, it’s i...
We interrupt your regularly scheduled programming to bring you this bulletin! The origin of the alien device that was discovered last December and has since been variously referred to as “Arc 2 D 2” ...
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. ...
We received these photos in an email this week, along with a request for us to help identify the palletized engine featured in them. It looks to be a surplus engine that was possibly purchased at a g...
What looks like an R2-D2 pulled up from a saltwater sea, weighs as much as the Death Star, and has enough firepower to — literally — fuse together two Tie-Fighter’s? No, it’s not something from the S...
Amid the big announcements from GM this past week came the news that the company was canceling a number of models, including the Impala, which this year turned 60. Eric Lawrence at the Detroit Free P...
New $34.99 ignition coil from NAPA. Photos by the author. With Lucas electrics being the butt of jokes for decades, it’s time we give credit where credit is due. A few weeks ago, while heading out fo...
So, three buddies, who each happen to have YouTube channels, like going to junkyards, finding old cars and getting them started, running and moving. “Thunderhead289,” “Junkyard Digs” and “Dylan McCoo...
Images are by RBW Classic Electric Cars, except where noted While the sounds, smells, and feeling of an internal-combustion engine and three-pedal manual transmission have always been an integral par...
The generations that have gone before give us the tools we need to survive in the world. Sometimes those tools are very literal tools, and handed to us in an oil-stained box. Like these my dad just g...
Photos courtesy Steve Linne. Racer Jack Conely might have been best known for the “maxi-mouse” small-block Chevrolet engines punched out to big-block proportions, but squirreled away among his stash ...