The seller says it was refurbished in Germany in the 1980s and they’ve done a bunch of recent work themselves since they acquired it in 2020, including rebuilding the carburetor, adjusting the valves, and adding new braking components, fresh fuel hoses and a new battery. It’s also not cheap, though, […]
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I Break My ’66 Ford Dump Truck and My ’63 International Every Time I Drive Them
That made me feel even worse when his truck broke trying to push mine out of the way. He pulled me to the middle of the dirt road in front of my house, and he chose to push the Ford out of the way to save time, which was fine by […]
How Maserati Developed a Dominating Supercar the Last Time Around in the MC12
To boost its image and cash in on selected gentleman racers and collectors, Maserati then introduced its most powerful MC12 yet, the Corse. Following Ferrari’s recipe with the customer racing FXX program based on the Enzo, the MC12 Corse was positioned somewhere between the Stradale and the GT1 cars, offered […]
They Keep Working on Flying Cars, But You Still Won’t Own One Any Time Soon
SkyDrive claims it’ll have this vehicle production-ready by 2023. In terms of a practical flying car, one that can do vertical take-offs and seamlessly land is a step in the right direction—no need for long runways or landing pads. The vehicle can only sustain flight for 10 minutes at the […]
Buy This Nissan 300ZX IMSA GTO Race Car and Relive a Time When Nissan Kicked Ass
Nissan has left the cool kids hanging for years, pushing back its new Z-car until 2023 and ditching many of its racing programs. Why wait three more years to buy another Z? Thanks to the fine folks at Stratas Auctions, you could buy one of the raddest Nissan Z-cars ever […]
F1 2020 Is The Best Yet, If You Have Time To Do It All
Formula 1 is back in the real world, but it’s been a long time coming. All the while through quarantine and scheduling delays, Codemasters was working to release its best racing game yet: F1 2020 for Xbox One, Playstation 4 and PC. It’s engaging and endlessly playable, though not without […]
Fernando Alonso on Proving Himself at the Indy 500, This Time Without Fans
It might look like the 2020 Indy 500 will go down in history for all the wrong reasons: no Memorial Day racing, no fans, no Bump Day, less prize money for the teams and drivers, and no women drivers for the first time in two decades. But it’s not all […]
We Got Him: That Time GM Sold 12,500 Terrible Chevy Malibus to Saddam Hussein
The international reputation of American carmakers during the Malaise Era—the period of successive oil crises, regulation-choked engines and general crap quality lasting from 1973 to the mid-1980s—was, in a word, bad. So bad that former Iraq dictator Saddam Hussein once nixed a deal to buy 25,000 specially-built 1981 Chevrolet Malibus […]
Chrysler’s Radical Space Shuttle Design Was 50 Years Ahead of Its Time
The reason they are not in use today is frustratingly simple: the cost. Not the cost of the engines themselves, but the cost of development. As per the video above, NASA and Rocketdyne invested over $500 million for an engine that still wasn’t as proven as conventional bell-nozzled rockets. For […]
The Segway Is Dead After 20 Years in Production, But It Was Still Ahead of Its Time
Once hyped by Apple co-founder Steve Jobs as being “as big a deal as the PC,” the self-balancing, two-wheeled Segway wasn’t quite the iPhone moment for personal transportation people expected, but was definitely ahead of its time. Carrying a $5,000 price tag upon its launch in 2001, the Segway PT […]
It’s Time to Bring Back the Acura Integra
Acura’s new TLX isn’t just beautiful—it’s a refocus of the entire brand back to what Acura says defines it best. Yet there’s still one glaring omission in this definition of pure, unadulterated Acura-ness missing from its line-up, and it’s one of the best front-wheel-drive cars of all time: the mighty […]