Category Archive: Craigslist Find, OTHER
Rough Start: For Just A Few Bucks Over Budget, Could A Sleeper Toyota Celica Be The One For You?
The whole idea of a sleeper is to hide in plain sight with the giant hammer hidden behind your back. The problem with putting a Q-ship together is that you have to start with a car that few would...
Top 11: We Cherry-Pick Mecum Auctions’ Indy Event – Too Many Choice Cars To Select From!
Normally, we peruse Mecum auctions to see what might be attainable. For their Indy auction, we had a hard time doing that…mostly because all of the lots are desirable enough and popular enough...
Chevrolet Camaro Versus BMW M4? Can Chevrolet’s Legend Compete With The Bavarian Legend?
Camaro versus Mustang. Ever since the fall of 1966, the Chevrolet Camaro’s main nemesis has been Ford’s pony car, and that’s pretty much because the Camaro was GM’s knee-jerk...
Money No Object: If You Want A Brand New 1957 Jaguar XKSS Roadster, You Better Hurry…And Have Deep Pockets!
At the end of the 1956 racing season, Jaguar pulled out of factory competition, but faced a problem: there were still a handful of completed and partially completed Jaguar D-Type racing cars that...
This 1975 Bricklin SV-1 Is Eye-Searingly Green And As Clean As They Come!
When Malcom Bricklin was putting together the idea for the SV-1 (Safety Vehicle-1), he might have had safety in mind but in a strange way, he was building a kind of muscle car: he wanted the...
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...
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...