Automobiles

  • 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

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  • 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

  • FWD, RWD, AWD

    You have choices and may not even know it.  You find a car that trips your trigger and take it for a spin.  Often it handles well just because you like its looks.  Do you care if it is front… Continue reading

  • The Trek North

    It was six in the morning as I hit the road north and on my way to a very long drive to Cape Cod. Passing through the North Carolina country side traffic was not too bad at that hour and… Continue reading

  • How to deal with that stuck oil filter

    It can be a demoralizing experience.  You have drained the oil and the oil filter is hanging on like a leech.  It won’t come off. The best way to fix this is not to have it happen in the first… Continue reading

  • Oil Changes

    Show of hands, how many of you change your own motor oil? A lot of us do and most of us are pretty good about having it changed whether we do it ourselves or have it serviced by someone else. … Continue reading