Benny Kirk
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I Hate to Admit It, But It's Time For the A-10 Warthog to Retire
29 Sep 2023, 16:54 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / I friggin love the A-10 Warthog. I've flown it in Ace Combat, War Thunder, and even the knockoff version in GTA Online. I've marveled at them in museums across multiple American states and even stood on the same grounds where the prototyp...
McLaren's Speedtail Hypercar Inspired This XP2 Custom-Built, One-Off Guitar
28 Sep 2023, 15:30 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / These weirdly contrived correlation products between high-end sports car makers and non-automotive pieces of equipment seem to not make sense sometimes. Just look at the Bentley Mulliner-branded kid's tricycle if you don't believe us. But...
This Custom 1952 GMC Truck Was Built by Yanks, Powered by Germans, and Modified in Britain
27 Sep 2023, 18:23 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Despite what you might think, classic American cars are more popular overseas than they've ever been in the past. Whether because of the internet or some other factor, it seems national boundaries aren't the hurdles toward enthusiasm they...
2JZ-Swapped '01 Toyota Tacoma Screams Resale Value and Big Horsepower
27 Sep 2023, 12:30 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / High resale values and Toyota Tacoma trucks go together like peanut butter and jelly. It's like the virtues of an honest, reliable light pickup truck that doesn't break down every five minutes have even more value in 2023 than when these ...
Frontline Cars’ Rover V8-Swapped MGB is a British Sports Car Done Right
26 Sep 2023, 20:05 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / It's easy for American petrolheads to gloss over the true-to-form classic British sports car. There's something about their trademark diminutive form factor and less-than-enormous sized engines that don't mesh well with American car ...
This Harrier GR9A Ate Tarmac in Kandahar 14 Years Ago, Now It’s for Sale
26 Sep 2023, 19:03 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / It may be easy for the average av-geek to look the other way at the Harrier Jump Jet's less-than-stellar safety record. All the sneers and quips about it being three times more likely to crash than an F-18 and five times more likely than an A-...
This 43-Year Old Prototype EV Has a Hair Dryer for a Defroster, It’s for Sale
25 Sep 2023, 20:21 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / A couple of years ago, a delightful YouTube channel by the name of Aging Wheels reviewed a long-forgotten prototype EV called the Electrek Uncar panel van. With a brushed-DC electric motor with regen braking, a totally custom controller unit, and 1...
This 2JZ-Swapped Lada Riva is Japanese Precision Wrapped in a Funny Soviet Suit
25 Sep 2023, 16:28 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / We're huge fans of old-school claptrap cars from now-defunct communist countries. If for no other reason than the cars built in these places are a lens through which to view what life was like there before the Iron Curtain fell three decades a...
This Classic Chevy Apache Truck and Custom Camper Have Been Joined at the Hip Since 1959
25 Sep 2023, 02:39 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / There are two types of people out there. People who'd decline spending extended periods living and sleeping in a mobile home mounted to the back of a pickup truck, and those who'd do it at the drop of a hat just for the fun of it. We don&...
Culver PQ-14 Cadet: The WWII Target Drone Too Pretty to Shoot Down
25 Sep 2023, 01:57 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / It's not often we find a Second World War warbird we've straight up never heard of before. Between all the War Thunder updates and the treasure trove of YouTube channels dedicated to covering WWII aviation, it's easy to think you...
This Red White and Blue AMC Rebel Machine is an Apple Pie on Four Wheels
24 Sep 2023, 18:23 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Say what you will about the American way of life in the early 1970s, but one word you couldn't describe it with is "subtle" or "understated." This was especially true when it came to elaborate displays of unquestioning patr...
NASA's LRO Snaps Mosaic of Lunar Crater Deeper Than the Grand Canyon
24 Sep 2023, 05:20 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter spends a fair deal of its time photographing craters. Granted, that's par for the course on the Moon, and not every lunar pot mark or meteoroid impact is worth writing home about. Then again, some lunar...
This Cummins 6BT-Swapped Malibu Wagon Rolls Coal in Malaise Era Cosplay
23 Sep 2023, 17:43 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / The Malaise era of the American auto industry spared hardly a soul after the 1973 oil crisis laid waste to the muscle car breed. It turned everything into oversized, underpowered, bloated walruses on wheels. But maybe no single model of an automobi...
This Man Welded Two Yugos Into a True Communist Limo, Results Are for Sale
23 Sep 2023, 06:43 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Yugoslavia in the year 1988 was a crazy place to be. The country's mythic-like leader, Josip Broz Tito, had already been dead for nearly ten years, and the nation he left behind was fighting tooth and nail not to shatter into pieces. Something...
Driven: The 2024 Polaris RZR XP 1000 Ultimate May Be the Most Fun Thing on Four Wheels
23 Sep 2023, 04:00 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / About a month ago, we test-drove the all-new 2024 Polaris Ranger XD 1500, which might be, pound for pound, the most capable utility side-by-side ever built. With features and horsepower for days plus a smoother steel-belt CVT than most passenger ca...
Tired of Coyote-Swapped Mustangs? This '71 Mercury Cougar Eliminator Cures What Ails You
22 Sep 2023, 21:37 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Coyote motors and old Mustangs feel so last week these days. It's almost like, as with GM cars and LS motors, people got a little tired of seeing the same combination of car and engine be put together over and over again in a sea of custom car...
Dacia’s Jogger Wins “Best Value Car” for Second Year in a Row, Could Do Great in the U.S.
22 Sep 2023, 17:21 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Have you recently peeped the base MSRP for a 2023 Subaru Outback? If you have, you'll know they're not quite the bang-for-your-buck bargain station wagons they once were 25 years ago. Seriously, almost $30,000 for the most bare-basic 2024...
This 80 Percent Scale Supermarine Spitfire Replica Has 100 Percent of the Charm
21 Sep 2023, 19:24 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / When most people think of British warbirds from the Second World War, they tend to think of the Spitfire and not much of anything else. Never mind that the Hawker Hurricane probably played a more significant role in the victory at the Battle of Bri...
This LS3-Swapped K5 Blazer Makes Modern Off-Roaders Look Tame
20 Sep 2023, 20:24 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Do any of you remember the reaction people had when the Chevy Blazer returned to production not as a true-to-form boxy off-roader but rather a milquetoast crossover SUV soccer mom-mobile that looks like it'd mess its trousers crossing a grassy...
Bentley Launches 6-in-1 Tricycle Inspired by Mulliner Range for Trust Fund Babies
20 Sep 2023, 19:22 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Are you a well-to-do Wall Street stockbroker with a garage full of luxury barges worth enough to feed the local population of needy for weeks, if not months? Do you also have a child in tow who you think would look cute behind the wheel of the same...