Benny Kirk
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SRT-10-Swapped '70 Dodge Charger Makes the Most of 10 Cylinders and Steel Wheels
10 Jan 2024, 05:43 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / We're so used to restomods these days that are so pristine, picture-perfect, and comprehensively fully restored that driving them is the equivalent of crashing a 250 GTO through the front glass of a Ferrari museum. It's not often somethin...
Honda Re-Invents Itself With 0 Series Concepts at CES, Debuts New H-Mark Emblem
9 Jan 2024, 20:41 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Questions abound about Honda's ability to keep up with rivals in the all-electric future roadway of the late 2020s, and automakers will live and die by adapting to this trend pretty soon. But with the new Honda 0 Series family of concept EVs, ...
NYC’s New Toll Hikes and Congestion Charges Are One More Tax on the City’s Working Class
9 Jan 2024, 01:50 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / The George Washington Bridge isn't often a place awash in joy. If anything, you're liable to feel robbed and a little cheated entering New York City from Fort Lee, New Jersey, after the bridge extracts $17.00 of your hard-earned dollars w...
Airbus A350: The Modern Jetliner That Sacrificed Itself To Save Every Soul Aboard
6 Jan 2024, 05:39 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / We're often told that aviation is safer nowadays than any other form of motorized transportation. In no uncertain terms, you're more likely to harm yourself buckled into a passenger car than you are strapped into a passenger airliner. It ...
We Trusted America's Most Stolen Car to the Nextbase iQ Smart Dashcam, Here's How It Went
4 Jan 2024, 18:22 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Sometimes, the good times we see today have their roots in years gone by. That's why even though the Nextbase iQ smart dash camera bagged so many awards in 2022 and 2023, including a spot on Time Magazine's best inventions list, there...
Beautifully Restored 1940 Ford Pickup Hides a JDM Surprise Under The Hood
30 Dec 2023, 04:54 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Before the Second World War, there wasn't much mechanical difference between a Ford coupe, sedan, drop-top, or even a pickup truck. Back in those days, you could get away with doing such things. Imagine trying to build an F-150 in 2023 with th...
Crusty 1975 Hurst/Olds W-30 Packs Unexpected Twin-Turbo Party Trick
29 Dec 2023, 00:47 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Whoever said the era of muscle cars ended after 1973 evidently never laid eyes on what we see here before us. Because the popular theory of the good times ending after the OPEC oil crisis of 1973 doesn't account for the existence of this 1975 ...
NASA and Roscosmos Put Ukraine Aside, Agree to Cooperate On ISS Until 2025
28 Dec 2023, 17:55 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / With Russia's military occupation of Ukraine soon to stretch into its second year, relations between the Russian Federation and the West are at an all-time low following the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. But at least in terms of space ...
Supercharged LT4-Swapped '94 Silverado Gaps Sports Cars Half Its Age
28 Dec 2023, 16:07 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / We understand if you're sick and tired of another gosh-darn LS/LT-swapped classic Chevy truck. There's a sense that, while it'll always be a viable option for custom truck fans, you can't help but think that the same formula ove...
Spain Joins Germany and Calls it Quits on Nuclear Energy, Will They Come to Regret It?
28 Dec 2023, 04:34 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / As per a report first broken by Reuters, the Government of Spain reached an agreement this week to officially begin sun-setting the nation's commercial nuclear energy grid in favor of more conventional forms of renewable energy. Per the agreed...
Hate Modern Trucks? This '94 F-350 XLT Has a Surprise Under the Hood
28 Dec 2023, 02:48 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / One thing you'll never cease to hear belly-aching about is that modern American full-size trucks are ultra-luxurious, uber-expensive shells of the workhorses they used to be. In an era where finding an entry-level, full-size work truck feels l...
John Brown’s Kawasaki Z1300-Swapped Honda N600 Is the Perfect Moto-Auto Hybrid
27 Dec 2023, 19:10 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Although we can't vouch for him personally, dedicated DIY wrencher John Brown seems like a pretty simple guy. He visualizes and engine swap in his head, he formulates how best to get to get the job done, and then he executes that plan to perfe...
Amalthea: The Most Fascinating Jovian Moon You've Never Heard Of
27 Dec 2023, 16:56 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Almost everyone knows that Jupiter has more moons than it probably knows what to do with—Ninety-five and counting as of the last estimates. But if you ask most folks, they'll only be able to call out a select four Jovian moons if they ha...
Forget a New Range Rover Long Wheelbase, We Want Its 28-Year-Old Ancestor
26 Dec 2023, 14:58 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / A brand new 2024 Long Wheelbase Range Rover SE is a $113,400 ultra-luxury item that, while undoubtedly competent as an off-roader, will in all likelihood never see terrain more complex or challenging than a grassy field at your local country club. ...
Rock Bottom Offroad's Hellcat-Swapped Dodge D200 Is the Forbidden Classic Ram TRX
26 Dec 2023, 13:19 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / We love the Dodge Ram 1500 TRX around here. There's something about a striking, aggressive, proverbial supercar shaped into the form of a pickup truck and given a tire and suspension setup that makes Baja 1000 trucks look meager by comparison....
Ringbrothers' 5.0-Swapped '65 Mustang is the Perfect Coyote Swap Project Inside and Out
25 Dec 2023, 17:45 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Seriously? Another gosh darn Coyote-swapped 1st-gen Mustang? Well, before you swipe left, consider that this one isn't your average restomod. Several thousand hours, at least 4200 and change, went into making this 1965 Mustang one of the most ...
Derelict Fox Body Mustang Four-Cylinder Awaits EcoBoost Swap in Florida, Only 800 Bucks
25 Dec 2023, 00:29 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Not every Ford Mustang is a certified badass muscle car that demands respect wherever its driver may take it. In fact, not every Mustang is even all that fast. In some cases, they're downright slow. It's happened more than once in the six...
Canadair CL-13 Sabre: Started by the Yanks, Made an Absolute Beast By Canada
24 Dec 2023, 20:36 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / A Canadian astronaut is going to the Moon pretty soon, and he's an ex-RCAF CF-18 pilot to boot. But if you ask Jeremy Hansen which Canadian jet fighter made the biggest impression on him in the shortest amount of time, there's a strong ch...
Sören Nordin's E92-Swapped Volvo 242 Is ABBA on Top, Rammstein Underneath
22 Dec 2023, 23:34 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / The Volvo 242 is the ultimate sensible pencil-pusher accountant's daily driver. With a body more square than Spongebob Squarepants and a sensibly Swedish build quality that makes almost all of its contemporaries feel lacking in the engineering...
Someone Left a Fake ’88 Ferrari 328 GTB Replica To Rot in a Field, Still Pretty Sad
21 Dec 2023, 02:17 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Unless you're an oil magnate fleeing a deal gone wrong in Dubai, who in their right mind would ever abandon a Ferrari? If you're going to go through the expense and trouble of owning a car with the prancing horse on its nose, wouldn'...