Manufacturer concept cars are notoriously unroadworthy, having over the years gained the nickname "pushmobiles" owing to the fac
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August 2003: Jimmy Shine and I have a personal goal of driving the Thacker and Shine A-V8 Roadster to Bonneville and going 200 m
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Our Sawed-Off Shotgun Stuffed In A Tuxedo
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Last year, at the behest of Chevrolet, Chuck Mallett experienced his first Power Tour as a part of Chevy’s Toy Fleet. The Toy Fleet is a rolling, real-time exhibit of current and future engine and engine management combinations as installed in various she
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“So how much horsepower does it have?” he asked, eyes wide and eager. “Three hundred and ninety,” we replied. “Wow! And that Michigan tag. Are you from Michigan? I just got here from Ohio.” “No, we live here. The car
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This brand-new Ram is the latest and most intimidating Dodge light-duty truck yet, but we’re in salacious Southern California where nothing (even the meat in that taco) is really as it seems to be. So why shouldn’t there be a greedy refugee straight
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Frank Currie has survived several Great Races, a couple of Power Tour Long Hauls, the Pan American Road Race, and a nasty dance with The Big C a few years ago. He loves to compete for the fun of it. He loves to be behind the wheel of a special car, and he thin
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Check Out The April Cover And Contents Page!Go ahead,” urged Steve Sbelgio. “Lean back, get comfortable.” We were waiting for the light to change to make a left onto the boulevard. “I always drive like a hunchback,” I said. “I
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Even though Jack Roush might not have attended every detail of his latest Mustang iterations, you can be quite sure that all the bugs in them were eaten before these cars were offered to the public. He poured about $7 million of R&D into the current crop, test
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Jack Goodrich believes that even extremely rare tin ought to be out vulcanizing the pavement, not turning green in some kind of perverted still-life exhibit. And since hot rodders tend to be individualists, Jack’s icon is the epitome of a steel-clawed mon
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Watch the heads snap around when you twist the key on a cold engine. The starter spins a half turn, and the pipes bark and burble with a reverberation that is flat undeniable. This car sounds like a hot solid-lifter small-block, just as it was meant to be. It&
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The no-option orange Prowler seen here clocked in at a nice round $45,000; the 'Bird starts at $36K, but add up the options (the removable hardtop—porthole and garage stand included—is a $2,500 hit alone) and you're on the high side of $40K in no tim
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We discovered Tom and Tammy Lee Hackmann’s Maverick Grabber at the Knott’s Berry Farm Ford show this past April. Two thousand Fords in our face, and this one won us over. We’d staggered around row upon row of all-original and restored Mustangs,
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Skip the 32-way adjustable seats, the dual A/C unit, those extra cupholders. Don’t bother us with assist, control, or anti features. Leave out contenders with 0-60 figures in rental-car time. We want ponies…we want torque…we want speed! Autom
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The other day, we were cruising the streets of L.A. and couldn’t help but notice that a certain popular model of car had been given an update in the styling department. Trouble was, it was tweaked to look a heck of a lot like the hot-selling competition t
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A fact of life concerning Harleys is that they're expensive. Compared to the crotch rockets and cruisers from Japan, a Harley-Davidson is often 50 to 100 percent more expensive. What that money gets you though is style, sound and attitude unmatched by any impo
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Right alongside our Power Tour (covered in depth elsewhere in this issue), Chrysler engineers were conducting a tour of their own. The “Prowler Tour” put two examples of Plymouth’s hot rod ragtop on the road for what was really the car’s pu
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