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Jesel’s “Equal 8” Isn’t Your Grandad’s Big Block Racing V8, It’s Even Better
Jesel’s “Equal 8” Isn’t Your Grandad’s Big Block Racing V8, It’s Even Better

25 Jan 2024, 18:14 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / For over 40 years, the late great Dan Jesel and his eponymous company in Lakewood, NJ, set out to build some of the finest racing engines in America.

 
Mitchell Race Xtreme Put the Engine in the "Right" Part of a Porsche 911 After 60 Years
Mitchell Race Xtreme Put the Engine in the "Right" Part of a Porsche 911 After 60 Years

25 Jan 2024, 05:14 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / There's something that's so devilishly delicious about seeing the top of an engine block jutting out the front end of a 911

 
Velocity Modern Classics' '68 Mustang is the Cleanest Gen-III Coyote Swap We've Ever Seen
Velocity Modern Classics' '68 Mustang is the Cleanest Gen-III Coyote Swap We've Ever Seen

25 Jan 2024, 00:18 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Never once does a Velocity Modern Classics classic restomod build leave shop grounds during its roughly 14-week build process.

 
S55 AMG-Swapped Mercedes 500SEC Puts Modern German Muscle in a Classic Shell
S55 AMG-Swapped Mercedes 500SEC Puts Modern German Muscle in a Classic Shell

23 Jan 2024, 04:43 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / As a range-topper of the flagship S-Class line, the C126-series 500SEC was perhaps the finest luxury sports coupe to come out of West Germany in its day.

 
Dusold Designs' Twin Turbo Windsor '65 Mustang Humbles Purpose-Built Race Cars
Dusold Designs' Twin Turbo Windsor '65 Mustang Humbles Purpose-Built Race Cars

21 Jan 2024, 20:04 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Ultimately, this drivetrain could be the envy of any custom build, perfectly suited for endless quarter-mile dragstrip passes. But it's so much more than that.

 
Forget a Super Duty, We Want This '88 Citroën Tissier to Haul Our Restomod Collection
Forget a Super Duty, We Want This '88 Citroën Tissier to Haul Our Restomod Collection

18 Jan 2024, 04:07 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / The impetus for what appears to be Citroën CX front end welded to a ramp trailer came from a quite unlikely source. None other than a French Civil servant.

 
Meet SRT33: Half 1933 Dodge Sedan, Half 6.1 HEMI Restomod, 100 Percent Badass
Meet SRT33: Half 1933 Dodge Sedan, Half 6.1 HEMI Restomod, 100 Percent Badass

16 Jan 2024, 20:42 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / This kind of restomod demands respect from young and old, regardless of your preconceived biases about what constitutes a car worth checking out.

 
Nissan Puts Europe's Rogue (X-Trail) on Tracks for Mountain Rescue at Italian Ski Resort
Nissan Puts Europe's Rogue (X-Trail) on Tracks for Mountain Rescue at Italian Ski Resort

16 Jan 2024, 09:56 UTC · By: Cristian Gnaticov / Besides the snow tracks and additional mods on the outside, the Nissan X-Trail Mountain Rescue has a custom interior that can save lives

 
Sleeper 2JZ-Swapped Lexus SC430 Is a Timeless Engine in a "Meh" Drop-Top Coupe
Sleeper 2JZ-Swapped Lexus SC430 Is a Timeless Engine in a "Meh" Drop-Top Coupe

13 Jan 2024, 07:37 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / There's something to be said about a well-built custom car that doesn't bother to stick out from the crowd like you'd expect.

 
Big Block V8-Swapped JCB GT Backhoe Has the Nut Job Energy We Need in Our Lives
Big Block V8-Swapped JCB GT Backhoe Has the Nut Job Energy We Need in Our Lives

12 Jan 2024, 19:13 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / On first impressions alone, there isn't too much of an indicator of what kind of monster lurks beneath the hood of this JCB, until you peep the alloy rims.

 
SRT-10-Swapped '70 Dodge Charger Makes the Most of 10 Cylinders and Steel Wheels
SRT-10-Swapped '70 Dodge Charger Makes the Most of 10 Cylinders and Steel Wheels

10 Jan 2024, 05:43 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / It took the man three whole years between 2005 and 2008 to tighten every bolt, polish all the chrome, and make this 54-year-old Charger look menacing.

 
Beautifully Restored 1940 Ford Pickup Hides a JDM Surprise Under The Hood
Beautifully Restored 1940 Ford Pickup Hides a JDM Surprise Under The Hood

30 Dec 2023, 04:54 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / This 1940 Ford Pickup is the kind of Bring a Trailer auction we don't mind showcasing just by the undeniable cool factor.

 
Crusty 1975 Hurst/Olds W-30 Packs Unexpected Twin-Turbo Party Trick
Crusty 1975 Hurst/Olds W-30 Packs Unexpected Twin-Turbo Party Trick

29 Dec 2023, 00:47 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Coming to us via a Craigslist ad out of Reno, Nevada, you get the sense that the last decade or two, in particular, haven't been too kind to this old muscle car

 
John Brown’s Kawasaki Z1300-Swapped Honda N600 Is the Perfect Moto-Auto Hybrid
John Brown’s Kawasaki Z1300-Swapped Honda N600 Is the Perfect Moto-Auto Hybrid

27 Dec 2023, 19:10 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / So the story goes, John purchased a 1970 AN600 and Kawasaki KZ1300 back in the 1980s. For years, he wondered how fast the Honda would be with a new engine.

 
Ringbrothers' 5.0-Swapped '65 Mustang is the Perfect Coyote Swap Project Inside and Out
Ringbrothers' 5.0-Swapped '65 Mustang is the Perfect Coyote Swap Project Inside and Out

25 Dec 2023, 17:45 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / This potential all-time-great Coyote-swapped Mustang restaurant is a project car from the Ringbrothers sellers of high-end billet aluminum performance parts.

 
Sören Nordin's E92-Swapped Volvo 242 Is ABBA on Top, Rammstein Underneath
Sören Nordin's E92-Swapped Volvo 242 Is ABBA on Top, Rammstein Underneath

22 Dec 2023, 23:34 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Safe to say, Sören didn't keep this engine stock. Quite the opposite, thanks to a Haltech Elite 2500 ECU, chances are good that more ponies are lurking.

 
This 1965 Mustang Body Has a 2005 Honda Accord Underneath, Makes Us Mentally Tired
This 1965 Mustang Body Has a 2005 Honda Accord Underneath, Makes Us Mentally Tired

19 Dec 2023, 17:35 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Apart from a super clean-looking Mustang body and some wicked-looking five-spoke alloy wheels, you get a 2.4-liter Honda K24 to play with.

 
Chuckles Garage’s 2JZ-GTE-Swapped Toyota Pickup Smokes Paganis and McLarens in Raw Speed
Chuckles Garage’s 2JZ-GTE-Swapped Toyota Pickup Smokes Paganis and McLarens in Raw Speed

12 Dec 2023, 16:26 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Sitting in front of us here is a mid-1990s Toyota pickup truck modified to compete in land speed record racing at the Bonneville Salt Flats Speedway.

 
Calvin Nelson's Restomod Ford Fairmont Sports a Twin-Turbo Surprise, It's Not a Coyote
Calvin Nelson's Restomod Ford Fairmont Sports a Twin-Turbo Surprise, It's Not a Coyote

9 Dec 2023, 17:33 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Using nothing but some AutoCAD software, Calvin set about designing all the custom motor mounts, transmission adapter plates and intake and exhaust manifolds.

 
Raptor V6-Swapped Mercedes 190E is Berliner Weisse on Top, Coors Light Underneath
Raptor V6-Swapped Mercedes 190E is Berliner Weisse on Top, Coors Light Underneath

7 Dec 2023, 01:29 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / You won't find a Cosworth engine or even a Mercedes-Benz engine under the hood of this restomod. Instead, it's rocking the EcoBoost V6 from an F-150 Raptor.