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  • Diesel – Bonneville Record Holder

    We saw it LeMans this year and now the Bonneville salt flats.  A British experimental car using two JCB444 engines that normally would put out 150 hp apiece, were modified to produce 750 hp each.  The result was a world land speed… Continue reading

  • A Balanced Approach – battery relocation

    Why would you want to move a perfectly good battery out from under the hood to somewhere else in the car? Well, there are a couple of reasons. First of all the environment under the hood subjects your battery to… Continue reading

  • School Buses

    I thought everyone did it.  When you are growing up you think everywhere is the same as what you experience where you are.  How was I to know? My school bus was yellow just like everywhere else, but there was… Continue reading

    School Buses

  • Six Cylinder Engines

    Today we see a lot of cars using a V6 design, in particular many great front wheel drive cars built by Mitsubishi, Acura, Honda, to name a few. There was a time when a six cylinder engine meant an in-line… Continue reading

  • Jet Beetle

    Nothing I could write could equal what you will find by going to this site: http://www.ronpatrickstuff.com/ Continue reading

  • 1991 VW Jetta – part 1

    We have a new project at Jim’s Garage.  A good friend with a small web business (www.justgerman.com) lucked out and found a 1991 Jetta for $500.  He’s done some work on it, putting in a new clutch and changing out… Continue reading

  • Richard Hammond

    Those of us that are Top Gear fanatics (BBC show on cars) received some bad news.  Presenter Richard Hammond was in the process of driving a jet car for a segment of the show when it went out of control… Continue reading

  • Factory Five

      I knew it was always just on the other side of the canal, but once I was on the Cape for vacation it was so hard to cross over the bridge until I was leaving for home.  Then I realised… Continue reading

  • The Hanto Pinto

    Shelby had his Cobra and in 1974 John Hansen had the Hanto Pinto. It rated an article in Autoweek at the time.  John had his dream of putting a high performance engine in a compact car and creating a sports… Continue reading

  • The Grose Jet

    It was a classified add in the Competition Press, the newspaper that became Autoweek, that I first saw it.  “2 Balls do the Trick” was the tag line.  It was an inventor’s replacement for the troublesome needle and seat used in… Continue reading