The Greenhouse gas theory is just that .. a theory with computer simulations .. yet no definitive proof of concept. MANY very experienced physicists continue to disagree with the Greenhouse cause of warming and credit solar cycles and other factors. Science is NEVER settled until PROOF of proof. ... View more

The rebirth proposal of the 'Baby T-Bird' (2 seater +2) was good enough that it should have been given to the Mercury Division for a luxo-car. FORD Division was too parochial and gazing pitifully at their own navel to see the possibilities for that excellent proposal. A 4-speed High-Performance 289 Baby Bird with a modest back seat for gear or kids would have been a majestic seller for Mercury (which had NOTHING high-performance in their showrooms at this date). ... View more

For instance: https://www.utilitydive.com/news/californias-dilemma-how-to-control-skyrocketing-electric-rates-while-buil/597767/ ... View more

Ok, hyperv6, your semi-hyping for EVs is getting boring. (I retired from a career in electric generation/distribution, so I'm SOMEWHAT aware of things.) 1) 'areas .. need grid work..'? Only EVERY subdivision in Ca, Or, Wa & Az (and most other states) will blow a transformer when 5 homes on one block plug in their daily-driven FomoTesladilliacs at dinnertime while the home HVACs and kitchens are busy. The generation/grid capacity is NOT currently available for that, and your monthly electric service billing will look more like a luxo-car note to pay for the necessary capacity fixes (if it HAS to be available at a date-certain soon .. like 2030). 2) Current ICE thermal efficiency approaches 40% on average, as high as 50% in some new vehicles. Most recharging of EVs will be occurring at night, when solar cell and wind generation have minimized; recharging will depend on either nuclear, coal, oil, natural gas or hydropower generation. The geniuses on the US's West and East coasts have almost succeeded in decommissioning all of their nuclear power plants, mostly because of (literal) hysteria. The thermal efficiency of lately-designed combined cycle gas-turbines approaches 65% .. BUT 20 to 30% of the energy will be lost in distribution and voltage transformation. SO .. until reliable and dispatchable non-fossil fueled generation is developed (wind/solar ARE not generally considered dispatchable or reliable) our EVs will be largely but inefficiently fueled by fossil fuels. just sayin' ... View more

I'm absolutely NOT enthusiastic about EVs. In fact, I'll wait and nurse my stable of IC cars/trucks for a decade or so of performance & economics proof by EVs before buying one. AND before I DO pop for an EV main transport, I'll know that it can take my family on a 400-500 mi. road trip in ONE hot, summer day without inconvenient recharging or curtailment of air-conditioning for range extension. ... View more

"Coming Soon" teasers are dumb stories in general and typically a waste of the readers' time. Hagerty News should identify them as teasers, and then write up the whole story when real information is available. ... View more

Agreed. AND the ~1990 corvette had inflatable bladders in the seats to adjust to the occupants and disappate road fatigue. ... View more

Think that was (MAYBE) a joke .. sarcasm??? ... View more

Uhhh ... article is a BIT flimsy .. in that we have NO clue how the terms 'Hybrid' and 'electric' apply. For instance, WHAT powers the drive wheels .. I might assume a battery run electric motor with a small IC engine keeps charging?? ... View more

No .. no .. sorry: Race engine tolerances are virtually ALWAYS much LOOSER than any factory street engine meant to last hundreds of thousands of miles. [Recall 'Smokey Yunick' and his 'barely together' motors which were magically beginning to come apart at the finish line after winning the race.] ... View more

Great idea! I've been toying with using an air/water-tight beetle as a diving bell for getting down into the warm Gulf of Mexico depths. How does your application work?? ... View more

Does read: "the contamination of either with either prevents .." (probably) Should read: "the contamination of either with the other prevents .." ... View more

"that saying ... can't we all just get along?" uhhh .. probably not. ... View more

Emissions regulations are NOT particularly tightening. CAFE regs were stupidly set at a ridiculous high level by the BHO administration, but those were tabled by the DJT administration. What regulation change is he talking about?? GM and Ford are announcing electrification because the leftist fringe is demanding it. Until regulation catches up with those demands, there's no obstacle to producing V-8 performance cars and light trucks. Or ??? ... View more

Yeah, dittos to fats .. unless you're riding it at least weekly, drain and run it dry every time before putting away for an extended storage. Good luck on keeping up with eBay parts .. finding maintenance/wear parts for a 20 yr-old wing is difficult .. and long-term owners will caution newbies to stay away from oldies, even the most cherry-looking. ... View more

Well-engineered Drum brakes can stop ONCE or twice just as well as any disc setup. Disc brakes are far superior in dissipating heat from repeated hard braking such as on a high-speed road course with many speed straights and hard corners between them. ... View more

You'd have to create it, since the 409 W-Block was first produced in 1961 .. ... View more

oh, well .. science and tech can CERTAINLY be advanced on any front .. even if by panic-stricken (moron) lemmings who have bought into Anthropogenic Global Warming erroneous theories. [Earth's climates are mostly influenced by the Sun's cycles, and C02 is too small an actor in warming functions to be a significant cause.] ... View more

Can't fit a V8 mounted transversely for the FWD vans. ... View more

Nice pics of Wings/Wheels .. How about a pic of the LADY?? ... View more

Sorry, Chip Foose is completely lost on me, as his arrogant attitude and compulsion to modify timeless designs leave me cold. Can't STAND most of his changes to classic cars. ... View more

uh huh .. seeing your UNGLOVED hand holding under that 4 lb hammer descending SCREAMS "I'm pretty NEW at this!!" ... View more

Political marketing. ALWAYS remember with regards to current EV technology .. EVERY time an EV is recharged, one of its 4000+ little batteries likely dies. Batteries don't improve with age, and Tesla is finding excuses for the as-built range of its cars falling short of design goals and expectation.  ... View more

" Westerns of the time, where the good guys had white hats.." You're too young to know this stuff .. but the "white hat" movies were 1920s silent movies .. and later 1930s 'talking movies' (even later the Gene Autry movies into the 1940s-50s). Just saying. ... View more

Stand by for an enormous opportunity in buying vehicles in Phoenix/Las Vegas, driving them to Ca and selling for more than the Az/Nv new vehicle price. ... View more

My late father's 1994 Park Ave Ultra sleeps in the garage of our guesthouse, awaiting a new fuel tank and pump. We used it for yrs after inheriting it, and we'll use it again as a family cruiser. It is quite agile as well as comfortable; we got 26 to 30 mpg when cruising on interstates, not trying to break a cannonball record. ... View more

UHHHH, we're gonna destroy this historic bldg so we can build a newer one. Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight, ... sure ... that'll REALLY be better than building UP with  new stories ABOVE the historic and storied original architecture. Oh, wait, I'm a stockholder .. maybe I should complain thru company channels. ... View more

In an automotive magazine, let's get the engineering facts correct. Higher compression in an engine should improve the efficiency of the motor, more power and better mileage. Higher octane gasoline becomes necessary to keep the engine from 'pinging' or premature ignition, which can cause damage. The higher compression cylinder head is intended to improve efficiency, not to 'enable' higher octane gasoline usage. [It is implied but not clearly explained that the owner bemoaned not having the OEM manually adjustable ignition advance, probably to counter hill-climbing 'pinging' caused by the higher compression head and high engine temperatures. The author waxes eloquent regarding the social aspects of the adventure but somewhat fails to cover the technical aspects of the Model A trip.]  ... View more

meh ... ... View more

I recall reading that Ford's engineers and production managers despaired of trying to educate Russian automotive managers and workers about the importance of dimensional control and uniformity of parts production. (The Russian Factory managers were always shadowed by political commissars who emphasized the Boss's [Joseph Stalin's] production deadlines and quantitative goals over everything else. It is worth mentioning that the political commissars won the battle, such that Ford withdrew his consultation engineers and quality managers from the Russian plants in the mid-1930s. Consequently, by June 1941, when Hitler's armies invaded Soviet Russia, the Soviet Red Army had a LOT of GaZ trucks, but they required virtually constant nightly maintenance in order to provide a next-day of operations. Senior Soviet Army analysts found that, under wartime conditions of constant retreat or relocation of assets, their GaZ trucks mean-time-to-failure was less than 24 hours of operation. Thus the Red Army's motorized units found themselves unable to retreat as fast as the Axis forces were advancing. Thousands of GaZ trucks were abandoned or destroyed in place where they broke down, and German Army mechanics actually began to salvage them and re-use them with Ford-of-Germany-produced spare parts and German paint & markings. It is not, therefore, surprising that the Red Army's first large-scale counter-attacks which actually stopped the advance of the German Center Group outside Moscow occurred when substantial numbers of Lend-Lease war-aid American Studebaker 4x6 trucks were available. Also, it is instructive to note that, for that attack, the Katusha solid-fuel rocket artillery (a uniquely terrifying weapon) launcher tubes were removed from the GaZ trucks and installed onto Studebakers to utilize their enormously greater reliability. (Ford's consulting engineers and quality managers returned [at Stalin's request] to the GaZ factories in late 1942. By late summer 1943, GaZ trucks had far better reliability, and spare parts were actually interchangeable between vehicles.)  ... View more

The author rationalizes 'Feeling' into decisions, instead of logic. This is likely to leave him forever a dollar short and yearning for better. So sad. ... View more

talk to your provincial govt. about insurance regulation ... Hagerty would if they could. ... View more

So, TB, HOW do you personally gather the courage to get out of bed in the AM?? ... View more

Compared to most modern sedans or coupes, my '55 Bird DOES have a huge trunk ... now, I will allow that the full size spare tire uses a LOT of that space. ... View more

If an owner/restorer can't find a rebuildable block for less than a couple grand, they are NOT looking very hard.  $18 THOUSAND??? my goodness ... ... View more

I did this 40+ yrs ago with a console Hi-Fi found on the curb. Now I have 4 or 5 component systems around my garages/shops.. Glad folks are warming to the thought. (I DO have bigscreen TVs, old desktops and laptops scattered all around my shops, too; my apologies to non-multitaskers. 10-yr old bigscreen TVs and laptops are becoming dirt-cheap also .. they usually either work or don't, so easy to shop for.) ... View more