The Horsepower of Hydration: Listen To This Deep Dive Into The History of The Mighty Mack Super Pumper System That Protected New York City
There are lots of neat mechanical stories out there in the world. Some are more about the people that operated the machines and some are about machines that sold problems in an ingenious way for...
The Behemoth Returns: Ford Will Bring Back The Excursion – The Large By Huge SUV Isn’t Dead Yet
(By Tom Lohnes) – The Ford Excursion was and is a valuable car. Based on F-250 underpinnings, the Excursion could be had with a yeoman 5.4-liter Triton V8 or a tough as nails 7.3-liter Power...
Vulgar Display: Off-Roading Rowdiness In “Holy Horsepower Vol. 6” From MadRam11
Does anything beat some good old, down and dirty fun? Not if you are into off-roading, it doesn’t. Where else can you bring as little or as much horsepower as you want and show off to your...
Tech Tips From BluePrint Engines: Whether You Are Buying An Engine or Not, This Tech Advice Will Help You
Knowledge is power, knowledge is winning, knowledge is saving money and having fun. All of these and many more are the reasons that BluePrint Engines has a multitude of great tech pages and tips on...
Suspicious Eye: Is Ford’s New Potential Mini-Truck Right For The American Market? A 13-Year Old’s Hot Take
(Words Tom Lohnes – Renderings Motor Trend) – The Ford F-series has long been the best-selling brand of trucks in the US. Ford recently released the new-ish Ranger to the United States....
Mark Williams New XK & XJ Series Jaguar Upgrade Means More Strength and Safety!
If you are running a IRS in your hot rod and that IRS is a Jag style unit that employs the basic Jaguar design, there are some parts of that program that aren’t all that great. Mark Williams...
Isolation Restoration Video Update: Take A Quick Tour Of The Tecumseh On The Operating Table
It’s a funny thing. There’s so many downsides to this period of “life pause” we’re living in and may be coming out of now but there are a couple of benefits. It has been...
Quick Drive: The 2020 Ford Explorer ST – Size Matters, Horsepower Matters, and Displacement Apparently Does Not Anymore
We officially live in the age of displacement replacement. The old hot rodding adage that has been used so many millions of times just doesn’t really have the same teeth as it once did. Why?...
Project Isolation Restoration Product Test Video: Does Evapo-Rust Really Deliver? See For Yourself
If it is too good to be true it probably is, right? That’s the normal scene when it comes to anything in life. Whether we are talking about a car that looks too good to be priced so cheap, a...
Crushing History: This Recap Of The 1988 Monster Truck Racing Season Shows A Historic Year
Is a sport really a sport before there is a champion? We don’t really think so and that’s why the 1988 TNT Renegade Monster Truck racing season was such a big deal. It was the first year...
The Beast Lives: This 1969 Brockway U459 Was Created To Build Skyscrapers And It Did
When the New York skyline was reaching every closer to the clouds during the 1970s, there was a constant and insatiable need in the city. Steel. The metal that enabled structures that the world would...
Beast of Burden: Watch And Listen To This 427-based Ford Big Block Make 700+ Naturally Aspirated Horsepower On The Dyno!
Sometimes you just have to do it the hard way and that’s why we love the sound and the fury of a true max-effort naturally aspirated engine. This is so cool we can hardly stand it. Our man...
The Killer Plane And The American Hero That Tamed It: This Is The Story of Jimmy Doolittle and the Gee Bee R1
This was the fastest land based machine in the world in 1932. It had 45-mph on Sir Malcom Campbell’s land based monster, it had 172-mph on Gar Wood’s boat that packed four massive Packard...
Aluminum Overcast: The Convair B-36 Peacemaker In Action
Six turnin’, four burnin’. Maybe…depending on whether the carburetor on the 28-cylinder Wasp Major engines had iced up or not. Without a doubt, the B-36 Peacemaker is a jaw-dropping...
