Last Call

Last Call- Reliance Tractors Edition

Here’s the product label for a part I recently recently received via UPS. The  application list reads like a panoply of failed English (and one Italian) auto makers. With the exception of Ford, Land Rover and – surprisingly – Lotus, everyone else has gone the way of Elvis, and parts like this are become harder [...]

Hooniverse Asks

Hooniverse Asks- Have You Ever Gotten an Incredible Deal on a Car?

You know the myth- a small ad in the local paper lists a Porsche or muscle car of some sort at an unbelievable price. The buyer calls up the seller, who turns out to be a woman going through a divorce. She says that her soon to be ex has run off with his secretary [...]

Gifts, How Do You Categorize This?

Ricer Wings Save the Planet

Here’s an idea who’s time has come. Designed by Leon Zhu, from China, it’s a folding solar panel that stores in your car’s fashionably massive rear-wing! When you’re parked, it unfolds to provide both shade and a jolt. When you’re on the move, it stores in the slamin’ big spoiler.

Craigslist Egregiousness, FOUND, For Sale

That GM's Such a Slut!

Over on the Jalopnik, I told you about a Porsche 944 that had an LS1 dropped under its hood-

I coulda' had a V8, oh wait, I do.

We got all nice pricy or crack pipy over this, and right now the consensus seems to be that fifteen large is pretty fair dinkum for that frankenporsche. [...]

Name That Part

Name That Part: High School Math Edition

It just doesn't add up!

Math. Back in high school they told us we’d use it every day of our lives. Not believing them, I spent most of my math classes drawing cars in my notebook and fantasizing about showing them to the girls in the class so they could swoon over my mad car-drawing [...]

FOUND, For Sale, Your Next Project Car

For Sale: The Czech is in the Mail

Today, Skoda is a wholly-owned subsidiary of VAG, but back in 1969 it was still under the auspices of the Soviet-Bloc planned economy, which had forced nationalized ownership on the company, and had cut it off from the west, stifling technological progress and access to modern parts.

While the Ruskies and Americans traded narrow-eyed scowls across [...]