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These Auto Brands Sponsor These Iconic Sports Franchises, One May Surprise You
These Auto Brands Sponsor These Iconic Sports Franchises, One May Surprise You

31 May 2022, 22:09 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Pro sports teams need one thing more than any else, and that's revenue. It's almost as important as not signing a goalie that completely prolapses during penalty kicks or a Major League slugger who takes a called third strike with two out...

 
1979 MGB Features Mopar Surprise in the Trunk and No Common Sense, That's Why We Love It
1979 MGB Features Mopar Surprise in the Trunk and No Common Sense, That's Why We Love It

31 May 2022, 18:14 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Historically, if you drove an MG MGB British drop-top sports car, it's because you prefer it over the rear-engined Porsche 912 you cold have had instead. Just how profoundly different the two cars from each other were ultimately helped be...

 
Finally, the F-14 Tomcat Is Coming to War Thunder, Here's Why It's Huge
Finally, the F-14 Tomcat Is Coming to War Thunder, Here's Why It's Huge

29 May 2022, 03:18 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / If you asked the average Ace Combat or War Thunder player where they think F-14 Tomcat was built, they'd probably say the foundries of aviation Valhalla. Specifically to be the sexiest warplane ever to fly. But in truth, the Grumman Tomcat...

 
Cobra V8-Swapped 1964 Ford Falcon Delivery Sells for Double Reserve Price, Shocks No One
Cobra V8-Swapped 1964 Ford Falcon Delivery Sells for Double Reserve Price, Shocks No One

28 May 2022, 23:24 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Americans don't give a rat's behind about station wagons anymore. Or at least, they're so off-put by lots and lots of bad wagons from the 80s and 90s that they allowed crossover SUVs to outright replace them. But would this have been...

 
Malaysian Man's Evo-Swapped Kia Forte Looking for BMW M2s to Race
Malaysian Man's Evo-Swapped Kia Forte Looking for BMW M2s to Race

28 May 2022, 06:52 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / The Kia Forte is a throwaway car in North America. But in Southeast Asia, almost nothing can be justifiably thrown away if it's of some use. Around there, you simply improve on what you have to work with until you have what you desire. Wha...

 
Metalworks Speed Shop's Split Window Corvette Gets the Most Out of an Art Morrison Chassis
Metalworks Speed Shop's Split Window Corvette Gets the Most Out of an Art Morrison Chassis

27 May 2022, 22:03 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / It's blasphemous when someone with a $20 toolset and more ambitions than sense goes to town with the internals or externals of a 1963 Corvette Sting Ray with the split rear window. If you're going to mess around with perfection, you bette...

 
Subaru EJ-Swapped Fiat 126 Comes Straight Out of Poland, Perfect Pierogi Delivery Car
Subaru EJ-Swapped Fiat 126 Comes Straight Out of Poland, Perfect Pierogi Delivery Car

26 May 2022, 04:30 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / The Fiat 126 is a little Italian city car that's worn more masks than the average Broadway running of Phantom of the Opera. But let's be real, the most historically significant and interesting variations almost always come out of Eastern ...

 
Stunning 1918 Model E46 Opera Coupe Proves Buick Was Once Amazing, Also a Movie Star
Stunning 1918 Model E46 Opera Coupe Proves Buick Was Once Amazing, Also a Movie Star

26 May 2022, 01:49 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Buick is a Chinese company. Okay, that's not exactly accurate, obviously, but more than three quarters of all sales coming from there is certainly nothing to sneeze at. Based on some of the sales figures we've become used to from one...

 
M5 Stuart Light Tank Looks Ready for Battle in New York Parking Lot, Is a WWII Vet Itself
M5 Stuart Light Tank Looks Ready for Battle in New York Parking Lot, Is a WWII Vet Itself

25 May 2022, 22:38 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / The M3/5 Stuart was a Second World War American tank that perenially saw its spotlight whittled away by the Sherman, and even the more well-known but considerably less adored M3 Lee. The Stuart was a tank designed for every facet of the Allied war ...

 
This AH-1G Looks Vicious Working Gate Guard Duty Outside New York VFW
This AH-1G Looks Vicious Working Gate Guard Duty Outside New York VFW

25 May 2022, 18:02 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / My trip to the Glenn H Curtiss Museum in Hammondsport, New York, was an absolute gem. But it was while looking across the road from a gas station down the street from the museum that I got my biggest surprise. It's all too easy to get caug...

 
Mitsubishi's Russian Lineup Outshines America's Even After Sanctions, Here's How
Mitsubishi's Russian Lineup Outshines America's Even After Sanctions, Here's How

25 May 2022, 08:20 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Recently, we watched all the zany shenanigans one Russian YouTuber got himself into as he went for a day of car shopping. Chuckling the whole time out of both hilarity and shock while he looked at their astronomical post-sanction prices. But on...

 
Russian Man Goes Car Shopping After Sanctions, What He Finds is Horrifying
Russian Man Goes Car Shopping After Sanctions, What He Finds is Horrifying

24 May 2022, 20:52 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / It's historically been pretty gosh darn difficult for folks in Russia to get their hands on motor vehicles. Especially before the fall of Communism, most people never got the chance to get behind the wheel. Mostly by being a prohibitively expe...

 
K24 Swapped Fox Body Mustang Makes Purists Rage and JDM Fans Joyous
K24 Swapped Fox Body Mustang Makes Purists Rage and JDM Fans Joyous

24 May 2022, 18:28 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / A few months ago, we showcased a custom Honda K24 swapped 1966 Ford Mustang owned and built by American teenager Jarred Willey. The response to swapping an American legend's engine for a JDM icon was, say, mixed, at best. Well, does doing the ...

 
Chevy Dually Truck Does Fusion Dance With Old Cadillac Escalade, End Result Now for Sale
Chevy Dually Truck Does Fusion Dance With Old Cadillac Escalade, End Result Now for Sale

24 May 2022, 16:40 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Sometimes when it comes to classic cars, less is more. We can all remember a time a custom car could've become a certified classic only for its designer to go completely off the deep end in terms of design. With a simple change to this Chevy t...

 
Glenn H Curtiss Museum: a Former Wine Factory Full of Vintage Cars, Bikes, and Airplanes
Glenn H Curtiss Museum: a Former Wine Factory Full of Vintage Cars, Bikes, and Airplanes

23 May 2022, 03:02 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / We've had the pleasure of traveling to some truly spectacular museums and private collections in my travels at autoevolution. But perhaps never before in the history of our time traveling to take pictures for you have I been able to satisfy so...

 
Forget Harley and Indian, Curtiss Built the Coolest Antique American Motorcycles
Forget Harley and Indian, Curtiss Built the Coolest Antique American Motorcycles

23 May 2022, 02:01 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / If you visualize an antique American motorcycle, you think of Harley Davidson or Indian. At least, that's what you're inclined to believe if you overhear two older gentlemen in leather vests with long grey beards chatting about vintage Am...

 
Two P-40 Warhawks Collided Mid-Air 78 Years Ago, Their Remains are Now Nearly Restored
Two P-40 Warhawks Collided Mid-Air 78 Years Ago, Their Remains are Now Nearly Restored

22 May 2022, 22:03 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / The Glenn H Curtiss Museum in Hammondsport, New York, is a warehouse-sized facility filled with artifacts from the Curtiss Airplane and Motor Corporation, the brainchild of Hammondsport's favorite native son Glenn H Curtiss. But of all the...

 
35 Years Before the Regal Turbo, Buick Helped Build This Jet Engine for American Warplanes
35 Years Before the Regal Turbo, Buick Helped Build This Jet Engine for American Warplanes

22 May 2022, 20:24 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / When you think of Buick engines, you inevitably think of one of, at most, three examples. The Fireball straight-eight, the Nailhead V8, and the 3.8-liter V6 turbo. But we bet most of you had no idea whatsoever that 30 years before they were messing...

 
Wright R-3350: The Underappreciated Muscle Behind Enola Gay, Bockscar, and So Much More
Wright R-3350: The Underappreciated Muscle Behind Enola Gay, Bockscar, and So Much More

22 May 2022, 19:38 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / To win a World War, you can't start without a foundation of excellent engines. History teaches us this many times over. Be it with the Liberty V12 in World War I or the Rolls-Royce Merlin of World War II. No great warplane is complete without ...

 
Harley-Davidson XA: The U.S. Army's All-American, Unused Answer to German BMWs in WWII
Harley-Davidson XA: The U.S. Army's All-American, Unused Answer to German BMWs in WWII

21 May 2022, 16:16 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Harley-Davidson lives and breathes all things Americana. It's a defiant symbol of U.S. pride and self-preservation, prooving even with gargantuan problems to solve, the American spirit endures. So long as the road keeps on rollin'. During...

 

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