Category Archive: OTHER, Tech Stories, XL Engine Tech, XL Spotlight, XL Tech Stories
This Hemi Powered D100 Gets An Aeromotive Phantom In-Tank Fuel System
(Words and Photos by Matt Graves) Hot Rodding, at it’s core, is basically upgrading old stuff with bigger and faster stuff. Sometimes this means embracing new technology with some of us kicking...
Super-Low Mile And Street-Driven: The House Of Muscle Checks Out Killer Mike’s 1996 Impala SS
It was long, low, and mean….everything that the Chevrolet Caprice was not, unless you were on the business end of some police officers who had an issue with you. It was snorty and had guts for...
GM Is Asking The Government To Increase The Gas Mileage Standard And More…Thoughts?
It’s often easy to say that manufacturers don’t care about consumers, so long as the money is filling the coffers. Not entirely wrong, it is? As long as people are lining up to buy...
Here Are Friday’s Number One Qualifiers From The NHRA Toyota Nationals In Las Vegas
NHRA’s Toyota Nationals is Round 23 of 24 in NHRA’s Mello Yello Drag Racing Series and fans from all over the west have flocked to Las Vegas for this one. They are hoping to see Championship...
A Home-Built RV That Isn’t Scary! This 1942 Chevrolet G506 Army Truck Is Beautiful!
World War II ramped up manufacturing in the United States like nothing else had before. Factories cranked out ships, planes, trains and trucks by the millions in the name of the War Effort. Everyone...
The Exhumation: The 1983 Chrysler LeBaron That Got Buried Gets Dug Up! Will It Start, And Will It Talk?
At the beginning of this year, we showed you one man’s final answer for a K-car that proved to be too much to tolerate. Tyler Hoover of Hoovies’ Garage bought this 1983 Chrysler LeBaron...
Nothing But Cars For Sale And On Parade At The Pomona Swap Meet
(Photos by Chad Reynolds) The Pomona Swap Meet was huge and awesome, as usual, which is why we always go! It’s a riot hanging out with friends, looking at cool parts, laughing at stuff we find,...
This Australian Dodge Phoenix Is Going From Derelict To Big-Block Cruiser For A Cause!
First off, how surprised are you that a 1963 Dodge of any type was in Australia as a local-sale car, complete with right-hand drive? All of the American manufacturers stuck their nose into the...
Drive Green: A 1977 AMC Hornet AMX That Was Still Trying To Be A Full-Fledged Musclecar!
The true pinnacle of Malaise might be about 1980, but 1977 wasn’t that great, either. Pontiac fans were doing well enough, the Z28 Camaro had returned after a two-year hiatus, and if you knew...
BangShift Question Of The Day: What’s The Coolest City in America That Has A Race Track?
As I’m writing this from a hotel room in Las Vegas before the 2018 NHRA Toyota Nationals get kicked off around here, it got me to thinking. There are a load of cool cities that have race tracks...
Unhinged: Don’t Let The Television Ad Titilate You Too Much, Now…
So this happened: in the United Kingdom, Ford, FCA and Nissan recently had their advertisements banned because, according to the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA), they were too much for viewers...
Rough Start: This 1976 Chevy Monza Towne Coupe Is A Blank Slate!
Finding a Chevy Monza that hasn’t been done up to death, already V8 swapped, and isn’t rustier than the Titanic’s prow is probably pushing impossible at this point. It has been...
Holley Releases New iNTECH Col Air INtake For LS9 Powered 2009-13 Corvettes – 30hp!
There’s lots of win here. First is the fact that Holley/MSD has announced the introduction of an iNTECH air intake that is designed to fit 2009-2013 LS9 powered Corvettes and the second it that...
Genesis: Get The Story On The Ford Deuce Coupe The Way Donut Tells It!
You have to start somewhere. Whether you look at flight, nautical travel or whatever, there is a Genesis moment, the jumping-off point that begins the trend that will inevitably expand and grow. For...