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MG Midget With Engine Elephantiasis = Awesome Alliteration
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What to do with a cheapo MG Midget with a trashed A-series motor? Budget autocrossing is too tame. Vintage racing is too obvious. How about slipping a 1380cc lump huffing nitrous between the rails and taking it drag racing? That’s a plan we Hoons can get behind.
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Chevy 350-powered Tractor Defies Logic, Clearly a Must-Own Toy
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Summer is almost here! Time to pull your SBC-powered, dump-bed equipped Worthington tractor out of the shed, devote a half-hour to ponder why you deep-sixed your third marriage over constructing it, correctly ascertain that it serves absolutely no purpose whatsoever, and gloriously over-sell it in an eye-watering eBay Motors ad!!! (Bonus WWJD “what would you…
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Hup Holland Hup! Backward Racing for World Cup Finalist Dutch!
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The Dutch are going to the World Cup finals for the first time since 1978, and since DAF is not only Dutch but also a brand full of Hoon-osity, we decided to celebrate by posting a little video in honor of their big win.
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The Chrysler Turbine Car and the American Spirit
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We didn’t invent the automobile. Hell, we didn’t invent the turbine either. But in the glory days of American engineering, when we conquered the moon and blew up entire tropical atolls, one country had the tenacity to loan 50 pre-production Chrysler Turbine Cars to the general public – the first turbine cars allowed into private…
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Showdown: Land of the Rising Maple Leaf Edition
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It’s been a while since our last Showdown, where the bruiser Lincoln Capri crushed a Ginetta G4 under its ‘Merican heel. This week, we’re not crossing an ocean, just the 49th Parallel. Hearing the (old) news (for the first time via Autoblog) that those dirty Quebecois are looking to restrict importation of RHD imports reminded…
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Obscure, Poorly Built, and Slow, the Gilbern Invader Still Best Welsh Car Ever
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OK, so Gilbern was the only Welsh marque ever, but even so, just look at it! The Mustang-meets-Longchamp lines, the gaping maw inhaling a gryphon, the howling Essex six-pot up front … it’s positively nwydwyllt, in the local vowel-challenged tongue.
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Want to Get With a Starlet? Go to Las Vegas!
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Ah, Las Vegas. Come for the ephemeral promise of material gain, leave with the rolling chassis of a tiny Toyota for less than your booze-addled buddy is going to blow at the strip club (“Dude, I think she really loves me! I’m going to hit the ATM again …”). Not everything that happens in Sin…
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Don't Tell Your Wife: Transgasket Diff Replacement Edition
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Here’s the sitrep – you blew $1200 on some combination of unhusbandly and morally problematic things (“this 8-ball will last us all weekend!”), and as you sober up the harsh reality stabs you in the eye like that beam of light from your seedy motel’s venetian blind – your wife is going to KILL you.…
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Faster, Faster, Faster, Until the Thrill of Speed Overcomes the Fear of Death …
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Speed, being relative, is a hard thing to appreciate or perceive. Speed from behind the wheel is different from speed on TV from the sofa. Sometimes, to see how fast an object is moving you need to look at it while it’s not moving at all.
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USSR: Unbelievably Sweet Soviet Rallying
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From about as long as there have been cars, there’s been racing. The Iron Fist of Bolshevism held Russia in its steely grip for most of the 20th century, and anemic Soviet cars were the only things around. So when life hands you a Lada, you go rallying!
