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Book of the Dead — GEO - Bruno V @DriventoWrite
Compact cars: General Motors, with all the engineering and design facilities at its disposal, could never really master the concept. From the interesting but flawed Corvair, followed by the oil-burning and rust-attracting Vega to the recall plagued X-Cars, they all ended up failures — if not commercially((The Corvair actually sold very well in its first few years until the Ford Mustang and Ralph…
Ed Winfield - Daniel Strohl @Hemmings
He got his start young to become one of hot rodding’s pioneers The quote’s familiar to anybody who’s hung around high-performance cars for more than a minute: “There’s no replacement for displacement.” It’s a genuinely American attitude toward extracting power out of a block of iron with some holes in it–just make the holes bigger, we got plenty of room. But, of course, it takes more than big…
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Dirt Track Racing, Biking, Hot Rodding Collide in Harley-Powered Deuce - Daniel Strohl @Hemmings
Massive 124-cu.in. V-twin powers steel-bodied roadster A flathead Ford V-8 would’ve worked just fine. This was Tom Harris’s first hot rod, after all, and the sheer number of experts and parts for those engines would’ve made building and installing one as easy as tripping. Besides, his uncle used to race flathead-powered sprint cars all over the Midwest in the Thirties, so a flathead would’ve…
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Nine Times Non-AMC Vehicles Used AMC Engines - Daniel Strohl @Hemmings
From trucks to racing, the underdog’s V-8s and straight-sixes did a lot The common misperception about American Motors throughout the years held that the company just assembled cars from other carmakers’ parts, including other carmakers’ engines. While the company did, at times, purchase engines from companies as varied as Packard and Porsche, in fact its engineers developed several lines of…
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Found: Henry Ford's experimental opposed-piston engine and another Ford oddity - Daniel Strohl @Hemmings
For any collector of strange old gas engines, the 1982 auction at Greenfield Village was not to be missed. Ed Rowland, a collector of strange old gas engines, missed it. But nearly 40 years later, he’s tracked down both of the experimental Ford engines he wanted to buy at that sale, one of them a prototype opposed-piston engine and an even stranger one that defies brief description. “I missed…
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Unrestored, Undriveable 1970 Plymouth Superbird Sells for $203,000 - Daniel Strohl @Hemmings
Sale comes amid sharp jumps in Superbird prices Estate sales and country auctions typically offer bargains for anybody willing to step away from the limelights of headline-grabbing auctions dedicated to collector cars. Then again, Mopar’s wing cars seem like they’ll sell for noteworthy prices regardless of the venue, as we saw when an unrestored 1970 Plymouth Superbird sold for more than…
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What Cars Offered Four-, Six-, and Eight-Cylinder Engines All at the Same Time? - Daniel Strohl @Hemmings
This trait may be the only thing a Sixties Scout has in common with a new Cadillac CT5 By its very nature, the automobile has identity issues. Rarely can automakers afford to conceive, develop, and market a vehicle with just one customer set in mind, so they either find an acceptable compromise or offer a slate of options to reach a broad range of customers. That can then lead to some strange…
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What Was a Ford Model T Doing at the First 24 Hours of Le Mans? - Daniel Strohl @Hemmings
And how did it manage a 14th place finish? Among the Bugattis, the Bentley, the Chenard-Walckers, the Excelsiors, and many other continental Europe racing standbys of the interwar era that had lined up for the inaugural 24 Hours of Le Mans sat a lone Ford Model T. It wasn’t described as such on the entry list and it sported a number of modifications that almost made it unrecognizable as a Model…
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