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Brandan · ‎05-04-2022

The Valiant and Dart have too much going on in my book, but that greenhouse is pretty cool.

Brandan · ‎05-04-2022

Give me a break, I've only been doing this for 15 years. Some day I may get the hang of it.

Brandan · ‎05-04-2022

How did you get that from this article?

Brandan · ‎04-04-2022

The Ramchargers "High & Mighty" Plymouth was a 1949 business coupe.

Brandan · ‎17-03-2022

But St. Patrick drove the snakes out, he didn't fly them.

Brandan · ‎25-02-2022

That front end looks so natural!

Brandan · ‎24-02-2022

A Coyote would be a tough swap, but there's an LS-powered Tesla that we'd love to drive.

Brandan · ‎24-02-2022

How is the gas station going to pump gas when the grid is down?

Brandan · ‎24-02-2022

It's a good thing gasoline isn't flammable.

Brandan · ‎12-01-2022

Mike Copeland did a Hellcat Charger on Roadkill! He's the Hellcat swap genius.

Brandan · ‎11-01-2022

The three-pedal option is only available with the four-cylinder Bronco, not the powertrain you want with 37-inch tires.

Brandan · ‎06-01-2022

All good points. Ford seems to think that there are conquest sales to be had and once those buyers get a taste of an electric F-150 they may be customers for quite a while.

Brandan · ‎05-01-2022

This is a more ambitious effort, but getting the Lightning on the market quickly doesn't seem like a bad move.

Brandan · ‎05-01-2022

I'm with you, Nate, that work truck interior doesn't look bad at all!

Brandan · ‎04-01-2022

Riding shotgun with Jeff, I can confirm his HSPM was remarkably high.

Brandan · ‎31-10-2021

It's a 1963 Corvette Z06, there's just another vehicle behind it as well.

Brandan · ‎30-10-2021

http://speedwaysonline.com/tracks/category/road-courses/

Brandan · ‎30-10-2021

This information didn't come from a press release, it came from a first-hand interview with one of the men that developed the engine. Forgive us for being interested in and writing about the most powerful naturally aspirated V-8 engine that Chevrolet may ever put into a production vehicle.

Brandan · ‎30-10-2021

No, it's definitely due to the flat plane crank configuration, we got it straight from the horse's mouth.

Brandan · ‎22-10-2021

Indeed, Aardema and Braun have learned that the air tends to pack the rear of an intake box at high speed.

Brandan · ‎01-10-2021

This is a four-mile course with a standing start, and it's salt. The speed is measured over an entire mile and the drivers have to back it up the following day.

Brandan · ‎28-09-2021

When did we advise buying these and storing them.

Brandan · ‎28-09-2021

You're right! I got my early Bond movies mixed up.

Brandan · ‎28-09-2021

It's in the museum, and it's in the slideshow gallery in the bottom!

Brandan · ‎04-09-2021

Well said!

Brandan · ‎04-09-2021

Sounds like Baker was a fan of the wings and that they did their job keeping them straight.

Brandan · ‎04-09-2021

Thanks Steve, it was good to see you out on the salt!

Brandan · ‎04-09-2021

They're both high-revving NASCAR V-8s: Roush-Yates FR9 in the Ford, R6P8 for the Dodge.

Brandan · ‎03-09-2021

Or it might have been a handful to drive. The vertical portions of the wing act like a stabilizer.

Brandan · ‎02-07-2021

The 302 existed in production Camaros because of SCCA homologation rules. For 1970, SCCA allowed the 5.0L engines to be destroked versions of production engines. Thus, Chevrolet stopped building production 302s despite racing them in SCCA. The production LT-1 was the homologation engine for those 302 race engines.

Brandan · ‎01-07-2021

Can you imagine how fast they would have been if Shelby had made the deal he wanted initially and got Chevy small-blocks instead?

Brandan · ‎30-06-2021

Yeah, you're correct!

Brandan · ‎30-06-2021

It's only last chronologically.

Brandan · ‎22-06-2021

Yes, thanks for pointing that out, total autopilot move on my part. As for the nose, it is once again aluminum.

Brandan · ‎10-06-2021

There is no equivalent Tacoma.

Brandan · ‎07-06-2021

It's all ball bearings these days.

Brandan · ‎02-06-2021

Thanks for digging this up, Sajeev! I'd never heard of this before.

Brandan · ‎20-05-2021

That bathtub intake is definitely a cross-ram.

Brandan · ‎20-05-2021

If it were cab-forward it wouldn't be an F-series and if it were a two-door it wouldn't be worth building because the market isn't there.

Brandan · ‎19-05-2021

A 455 in a G-body sounds like a good time!

Brandan · ‎12-05-2021

All of these are pre-war cars that represent post-war hot rods.

Brandan · ‎12-05-2021

That's the way the Duramax V-8 diesel operates, with a single rocker operating twin valves.

Brandan · ‎05-05-2021

We debated that, but we liked liked the idea of a group of Pontiacs assembled to invade.

Brandan · ‎29-04-2021

Good catch Jim, the solid-lifter typo was just a force of habit. As for the start carts, the Buick V-8s were replaced with 454s in the '70s. http://www.wvi.com/~sr71webmaster/ag330_sr

Brandan · ‎28-04-2021

It's in the video, the recipient of the 396 rebuild.

Brandan · ‎10-04-2021

If the Dakota ever comes back, you can bet it will be under the Ram brand.

Brandan · ‎10-04-2021

GMC's Envoy XUV had a rear sliding roof too.

Brandan · ‎10-04-2021

The entire 2nd generation Avalanche was made without cladding.

Brandan · ‎10-04-2021

The Avalanche outsold the Ridgeline in every year they were both available but 2013 when the Ridgeline squeaked by.

Brandan · ‎01-04-2021

What exactly did you think you were gonna get when you saw the headline?