Benny Kirk
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Meet the Mid-Engined Zimmer Quicksilver, The Nuttiest Thing on a Fiero Chassis
22 Dec 2021, 21:12 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Most custom cars based on the Pontiac Fiero of antiquity usually turn out pretty half-baked. If not completely ridiculous, in most cases. But we have to give credit when someone builds something genuinely interesting using the lowly Fiero as a foun...
Fleet of SEPECAT Jaguar Attack Jets For Sale, Ready to Form Worlds Cheapest Air Force
22 Dec 2021, 20:40 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Unless you're an avid War Thunder player, you probably aren't all that familiar with the SEPECAT Jaguar military attack jet. It was one of the most prolific aircraft in European, Indian and South American Air Forces in the late 20th centu...
Bizzare Modified Suzuki Every Van Evokes an Old VW Bus on Acid, It's Also for Sale
22 Dec 2021, 20:33 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / If you despair that the original Volkswagen T2 van never made it out of the 70s, some Japanese modders in the mid-2000s shared that sentiment. Meet this highly modified 2008 Suzuki Every Van. In the event that was a play on words, we're not su...
Would You Buy This 2004 Maybach 57 Over a New Genesis G80?
22 Dec 2021, 16:39 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Maybach didn't become one of the most name-dropped cars in the history of hip-hop for no reason. It's still one heck of a status symbol even years after the brand went away for a while during the 2008 recession and came back in 2015. Nowa...
Gorgeous Mercury Comet Factory Drag Car Steals Hearts One 1/4 at a Time
22 Dec 2021, 15:19 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Factory drag cars are nothing new. Sorry if you were under the assumption that the modern Ford Mustang Cobra jet was something novel. These limited edition drag cars have their true origins in the late 60s. While not the most famous name in drag ra...
Fantastic 5.7 Swapped Plymouth Barracuda Makes Us Wish the Brand Had Survived
21 Dec 2021, 22:33 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / The Plymouth Barracuda is a car that doesn't get enough love these days. Sure, the adjacent HEMI Cuda is an all-time classic, but we love when someone gives the same TLC to the base car for it all. Feast your eyes on a custom 1969 Barracuda bu...
Denver Queer Owned Auto Shop Proves There's Room for Everyone in Petrolhead Land
21 Dec 2021, 20:27 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / We've all no doubt heard that being a humble auto mechanic is a "real man's job." Evidently, we ought to change our vocabulary because the world is changing fast. Gender norms are out, and everyone doing whatever they please wit...
Verge Writer Tells Car Companies To "Shut Up" About EVs and Just Get To Work Making Them
21 Dec 2021, 17:29 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Andrew Hawkins of The Verge took to his company website and lambasted the international auto industry for what he perceived as patting itself on the back for finally transitioning away from fossil fuels on Tuseday. At the same time, most of America...
Meet Thunderpig, The Last Airworthy C-123K Provider on the Planet
21 Dec 2021, 07:02 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / The internet is full of hyperbole. So when we come across something claimed to be the last of its kind in the world, forgive us for being skeptical. We've done the research, and we've crunched the numbers, so when we tell you this is the ...
Once the Planet's Scariest Fighter Jet, This F-15A Now Sits Collecting Bird Droppings
19 Dec 2021, 09:30 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / This Mcdonnel-Douglas F-15A Eagle was very much still in active military service when the Air Heritage Museum in Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania, opened its doors in 1986. Somehow, someway, 35 years have passed since then. Enough time for the once-...
Spotlight USA: Here's Proof You Don't Just Cold Start Classic Warplanes, You Wake Them Up
19 Dec 2021, 08:58 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Not every aerospace museum needs to take up four hangars and a few hundred thousand square feet to be worth visiting. If anything, smaller museums can have a charm all their own. It's our delight to bring you another hidden gem museum that not...
Pray Someone Comes and Restores This Squad of Barn Find UH-1 Huey Choppers
18 Dec 2021, 22:11 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / A group of disused Bell U-1 Iroquois parked outside an airport hangar probably looks like an eyesore. At least if you don't give a rat's rear-end about old warbirds. But to lifelong enthusiasts, it's as close to a genuine barn f...
Taxi Yellow Saab 9-3 Drop Top is a Total Blast From the Past
17 Dec 2021, 22:53 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / It's been five long years since Saab's automotive division closed up shop for good. It's been so long that some of us may have forgotten just why the brand was so beloved by the people who drove it. To give a classic case in point, c...
Chinese Government Pressures Continental to Cut Ties With Lithuania Over Taiwan
17 Dec 2021, 20:24 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / It's par for the course for international auto conglomerates to have petty squabbles with each other. But it's profoundly different when one nation's government pressures an automaker to cut ties with another, with whom they disagree...
LS9 Swapped 1959 Impala Melts Our Hearts and Steals our Spouses.
17 Dec 2021, 20:18 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Southern California is the spiritual home of the American Hot Rod. But in a sea of tuners building sub-par restomods, a few pearls can still be found. Assuming you take the time to pick them out of the crowd, of course. This supercharged LS9 swappe...
Joe Manchin Back at It: Stonewalls EV Tax Credit, Rejects Coastal Oil Drilling Ban
17 Dec 2021, 16:53 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / If there are two things that exist in America that get along like oil and water, it's electric cars and Democratic West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin. Senator Manchin first came to our attention after he voiced his disapproval of President Joe ...
Car Prices Are in the Stratosphere, U.S. Senator Warren Says Greed Is to Blame
17 Dec 2021, 16:05 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Never at any point in motorcar history have average prices skyrocketed to the degree they have in the last 12 months. As a global supply chain nightmare strangleholds, the industry like a frightened animal caught in a bear trap, one Massachusetts s...
Chrysler Slant-Six Powered Air Tug Hauls Old Warplanes, Not Cessnas
16 Dec 2021, 21:59 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / The only time most of us care about an aircraft tug is when we're launching one-off a cargo ramp in Grand Theft Auto. But in real life,this NMC-Wollard Model 100's job is to lug around something more special than some Cesnass at the l...
Daimler Claims EV Battery Sustainability Will Be the Next Great Automotive Challenge
16 Dec 2021, 16:52 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / The global auto industry's latest obsession is the notion that batteries in electric vehicles need not pollute the environment in the way they have in the past. Different automakers have come up with unique solutions to this issue. But Daimler...
Toyota Joins Efforts to Supports Relief After Devastating U.S. Tornado Outbreak
15 Dec 2021, 21:35 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / There were no mentions of sales data, carbon footprints, or flashy new EV models in Toyota's latest press release. Something far more important and dire than any of that was at hand. Today, the company announced that their American division wi...