The Supra-LeMans is way cool, no doubt, but without context, isn’t any more than that. There’s deep thought behind this project, though, as we asked Ralf Becker about his inspiration. He talks about his “remixing-idea,” the “cultural bastard” project. He also mentioned that, in the spirit of German eco-friendliness, he’s planning on 108-octane bio-methanol power, […]
So you like the Nissan Sunny (Sentra), but you think it lacks power, even the Gti-R. At the same time, you’ve got access to a wrecked F355. That’s right, put your hands together. And stick that big ole V-8 and rear transaxle where your hatchback’s rear seat and trunk used to be.
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Not all land-speed racing takes place out West. For the last few years, the East Coast Timing Association has overtaken a one-mile landing strip outside Maxton, North Carolina, for those folks who either can’t get out to or can’t wait for Bonneville or El Mirage. Scott H from the H.A.M.B. took some pictures over the […]
Let’s say your Citroen Dyane is just not unusual enough to suit you. What to do? Well, there’s always the woody route, complete with flame paint job…
Been there, done that? How about making a pickup out of your 2CV?
No? A nice roadster conversion, then?
And then there’s the incredibly rare whale-tail turbo-look 2CV….
The best we can […]
History is one thing when you’ve read it in a book. It’s another thing when you’re staring it down, as I did the car above last year at the Michael Dingman auction in New Hampshire (where it sold for $220,000, BTW). I hadn’t read this article before the auction, though I probably should have. Regardless, […]
Mention the letters “HO” and everybody’s going to automatically know you’re either talking about model trains or bland, mushy farina cereal. They might not know, though, that you could also be discussing scale automotive models. Sure, HO is by far the most popular scale for railroad modelers (about 85 percent of them pick HO), but […]
Los cholo locos at tha Jalop’ are having some fun with our bud Bruce Weiner’s “Whattadrag” Chevy 502-powered Isetta, and we’re lovers of all things microcar around here, too.
Whattadrag is often confused with the “Urkel Dragster,” but it ain’t the same car. In fact, we last saw the Isetta Roketta in Branson a year and […]
Warning: Contains slight Trabant content
No, we don’t know how it’s pronounced, and you can read up about why the people of Mohács, in Hungary, wear oddly reindeer-like costumes for the Busójárás holiday. It is, as Totalcar says, 60% Muppet Show and 40% folklore. We just dig what we’re going to call their parade floats. It’s […]
I’ve still got the scars from my childhood explorations into the melting point of copper, and to this day it’s my material of choice when the need to bend some metal strikes. I’m not the only one, with copper choppers and hotrod detail work showing up among those who don’t mind a streak of green […]
Monday, when our weekend dreams of glory metamorphose into workaday humdrum. Any wonder, then, that more than once a driver’s fancy has imagined the view out of their human transport pod as something a little more…lively?
Paul E. Smith is one. He’s been working on his 1989 Dodge Caravan SE for years now, and now runs […]
And you thought Leno’s car was the first to use a tank engine. Back in the late 1960s in Ol’ Blighty, Merlin engine expert Paul Jameson decides to drop a massive Meteor V-12 Centurion tank engine into a car. Finding a suitable existing car wasn’t really feasible, so he built one around the engine instead […]
In researching Zora Arkus-Duntov for an upcoming article in Hemmings Muscle Machines, I kept coming across references to his correspondences to GM brass, both before his employment at Chevrolet and during. I figured there were so many references to these materials because they’re relatively widespread, and I did indeed find two of Zora’s letters at […]
Walking the rows in the Orange Field at Hershey, this pile of parts that at one point constituted a 1932 Ford caught my eye. “Remember - God Hates a Coward” the seller wrote on the masking tape on the upper door frame. The other bit of masking tape carried the price: $1,900 for all. I […]
I thought this one was pretty cool. I was looking around the Rock Auto website the other day and came across this Nash Metropolitan project that was recently finished.
Looks like Granny’s grocery getter right?
Nice restoration job both inside and out.
Look in here! Ford fuel-injected 5.0 liter engine. New goodies also included a narrowed Ford 9″ third […]