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  • Garages Then and Now

    Long before the automobile there were garage-like structures known as barns.  Instead of service stations there were blacksmith shops.  The transportation choices were horses, carriages, and your feet. It was important to protect and maintain your transportation and for some… Continue reading

  • Stealth

    Spirited driving, speeding, scofflaw, or just “Sorry officer, I had no idea”.  How ever you want to describe it there are speed limits and there are drivers that exceed those limits.  Depending upon what road or highway you look at,… Continue reading

  • 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