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Category Archive: eBay Find, OTHER

This 1955 Studebaker Champion Deluxe Is A Beautiful Driver That Is Surprisingly Attainable!

It’s amazing to think that the new-for-1953 Studebaker coupes were a failure. Once the company got their act together after a horrendous start that involved bad tooling and production delays,...

This 1966 Studebaker Commander Is One Nasty Little Beast! Blown 383 Chevy And A Five-Speed!

The jig was up for Studebaker in 1966. Production at the South Bend, Indiana plant had been shuttered for two years and the company exited the auto manufacturing business altogether on March 16,...

Meet “Turtle”, A Vauxhall Victor With A Blown, Methanol-Swilling Four Banger That Cranks Out V8 Power!

The other day we showed you a Holden Ute burnout machine that was powered by a blown Holden inline-six, and admired the fact that being two cylinders down compared to the normal tire-fryer...

Random Bike Review: The MTT Y2K Turbine Superbike – For When You Are Serious About Shutting Up Both Harley And Sport Bike Riders In One Shot!

Y2K. The reason why otherwise mentally capable individuals went out of their freaking minds in 1999. All hell was going to break loose at midnight on New Year’s when computers couldn’t...

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Just Call This One The “Phoenix”: This 2004 Ferrari Enzo Has Gone From Scrap To The Auction Block!

Beautiful, isn’t it? In a sea of Rosso Corsa Ferraris, this Ferrari Enzo looks absolutely stunning in black…er, Nero Daytona. Every bit of detail on this Enzo is amazing, from the...

Take A Close Look At An Australian Legend, The Holden Torana A9X

In America we had the death of the muscle car in the early 1970s due to the combined efforts of the insurance industry, the onset of emissions controls, and a shift in tastes from fast and flashy to...

Best Of 2015: It’s An Imperial, An El Camino, And A Dually, All In One!

Of all of the weird stuff I’ve seen over the years, this one is in the running for the Top 10. Hell, it just might make the top 3, because I genuinely don’t know what to make of it. The...

Best Of BS 2015: Kenny Reece’s “3-to-1” 427-powered Supermodified

In the quest for racing supremacy, creative engineering becomes the tool of the imaginative and certain cars push (and sometimes, exceed) the boundaries of the established rules. You know several...

Gotta Do Better Than That, Old Man: Here’s A Lesson On What Ugly REALLY Is! Meet The Mitsuoka Orochi Evangelion Edition!

It wouldn’t be the holidays if someone in the family wasn’t arguing, would it? Well, sorry, kids, we don’t mean for you to see us fight, but it seems that Uncle Brian decided to...

Sticker Price Shock: You Can Buy New Heads For A Ferrari Lampredi V-12 Engine…At $60,000 A Set!

Ferrari has always been synonymous with expensive maintenance. Even if you get lucky and find a decently priced 308 GTS or a 4ooi, you will still pay out of just about every orifice you possess to...

Last Minute Christmas Shopping: A Rare Kenny Bernstein Mercury LN7 Flopper-Bodied Go Kart

Just a few days until Christmas and you’re just NOW shopping? Tsk, tsk. You should know that the best gifts are the ones purchased after you’ve battled maddening hoards of shoppers while...

Rough Start: TWO Mazda RX-7s To Cover Just About Any Motorsport You Could Want To Try!

If you’re shopping for a car on a budget, you are probably shopping for everything on a budget. Using that logic, if there was a “buy two for the price of one” deal, you’d...

Craigslist Find: It’s One Part Ford, One Part Deuce And A Half, And Completely Awesome!

Yesterday’s “bug out” Chevrolet Express van didn’t quite go over as well as we’d thought it would, but the reasoning is pretty sound: van guys have been tricking out the...

Random Car Review, The Turkey Edition: The Only Turkish Sports Car Made, The Anadol STC-16

With Thanksgiving fast approaching and the smells of a kitchen at full tilt infiltrating the nostrils of the suddenly hungry everywhere, it is no surprise that turkey is on the brain. Smoked,...