Benny Kirk
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This Classic Chevy Apache Truck and Custom Camper Have Been Joined at the Hip Since 1959
25 Sep 2023, 02:39 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / There are two types of people out there. People who'd decline spending extended periods living and sleeping in a mobile home mounted to the back of a pickup truck, and those who'd do it at the drop of a hat just for the fun of it. We don&...
Culver PQ-14 Cadet: The WWII Target Drone Too Pretty to Shoot Down
25 Sep 2023, 01:57 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / It's not often we find a Second World War warbird we've straight up never heard of before. Between all the War Thunder updates and the treasure trove of YouTube channels dedicated to covering WWII aviation, it's easy to think you...
This Red White and Blue AMC Rebel Machine is an Apple Pie on Four Wheels
24 Sep 2023, 18:23 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Say what you will about the American way of life in the early 1970s, but one word you couldn't describe it with is "subtle" or "understated." This was especially true when it came to elaborate displays of unquestioning patr...
NASA's LRO Snaps Mosaic of Lunar Crater Deeper Than the Grand Canyon
24 Sep 2023, 05:20 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter spends a fair deal of its time photographing craters. Granted, that's par for the course on the Moon, and not every lunar pot mark or meteoroid impact is worth writing home about. Then again, some lunar...
This Cummins 6BT-Swapped Malibu Wagon Rolls Coal in Malaise Era Cosplay
23 Sep 2023, 17:43 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / The Malaise era of the American auto industry spared hardly a soul after the 1973 oil crisis laid waste to the muscle car breed. It turned everything into oversized, underpowered, bloated walruses on wheels. But maybe no single model of an automobi...
This Man Welded Two Yugos Into a True Communist Limo, Results Are for Sale
23 Sep 2023, 06:43 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Yugoslavia in the year 1988 was a crazy place to be. The country's mythic-like leader, Josip Broz Tito, had already been dead for nearly ten years, and the nation he left behind was fighting tooth and nail not to shatter into pieces. Something...
Driven: The 2024 Polaris RZR XP 1000 Ultimate May Be the Most Fun Thing on Four Wheels
23 Sep 2023, 04:00 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / About a month ago, we test-drove the all-new 2024 Polaris Ranger XD 1500, which might be, pound for pound, the most capable utility side-by-side ever built. With features and horsepower for days plus a smoother steel-belt CVT than most passenger ca...
Tired of Coyote-Swapped Mustangs? This '71 Mercury Cougar Eliminator Cures What Ails You
22 Sep 2023, 21:37 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Coyote motors and old Mustangs feel so last week these days. It's almost like, as with GM cars and LS motors, people got a little tired of seeing the same combination of car and engine be put together over and over again in a sea of custom car...
Dacia’s Jogger Wins “Best Value Car” for Second Year in a Row, Could Do Great in the U.S.
22 Sep 2023, 17:21 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Have you recently peeped the base MSRP for a 2023 Subaru Outback? If you have, you'll know they're not quite the bang-for-your-buck bargain station wagons they once were 25 years ago. Seriously, almost $30,000 for the most bare-basic 2024...
This 80 Percent Scale Supermarine Spitfire Replica Has 100 Percent of the Charm
21 Sep 2023, 19:24 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / When most people think of British warbirds from the Second World War, they tend to think of the Spitfire and not much of anything else. Never mind that the Hawker Hurricane probably played a more significant role in the victory at the Battle of Bri...
This LS3-Swapped K5 Blazer Makes Modern Off-Roaders Look Tame
20 Sep 2023, 20:24 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Do any of you remember the reaction people had when the Chevy Blazer returned to production not as a true-to-form boxy off-roader but rather a milquetoast crossover SUV soccer mom-mobile that looks like it'd mess its trousers crossing a grassy...
Bentley Launches 6-in-1 Tricycle Inspired by Mulliner Range for Trust Fund Babies
20 Sep 2023, 19:22 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Are you a well-to-do Wall Street stockbroker with a garage full of luxury barges worth enough to feed the local population of needy for weeks, if not months? Do you also have a child in tow who you think would look cute behind the wheel of the same...
50 Years Ago Today, Concorde Made its Triumphant First U.S. Appearance at DFW Airport
20 Sep 2023, 18:22 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Four afterburning turbojets, room for up to 120 high-paying passengers, and a top speed of just over Mach two limited not by the engine's capabilities but by the fact that the aircraft's skin stood a chance of warping if it went any faste...
NASA's Parker Solar Probe Drag Races Through Coronal Explosion, Lives to Collect Data
20 Sep 2023, 16:55 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Let us paint the scene for you. The day is September 5th, 2022, and NASA's Parker Solar Probe is spending another day speeding toward the outer corona of the Sun at a scarcely believable 400,000-plus mph (643,737.6 kph). The day was just like ...
This Tuned Toyota GR Yaris Jets More Power Than a Stock Hellcat, Is Probably Faster Too
20 Sep 2023, 01:32 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / If you haven't added the Toyota GR Yaris to your list of cars we wish we could buy in America, you ought to. There's just something about such a small form factor jetting more horsepower than most domestic V8s made just a generation ago u...
Mike Smoker's Viper-Swapped Plymouth Road Runner Isn't Concerned With Rising Gas Prices
18 Sep 2023, 20:17 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Environmentalists can be a fickle group at times. Some of them, but not all, bemoan internal combustion engines as the work of Satan, and the people who drive them are nothing but the demons carrying out their master's work on his behalf. They...
Pulsar Fusion Wants To Build the World's First Nuclear Fusion Rocket Engine, Is It Legit?
18 Sep 2023, 19:14 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Earlier this year, NASA and DARPA announced the goal to field a nuclear fission-powered spacecraft capable of ferrying human crews from Earth to Mars expediently sometime before this decade is out. If accomplished, the Demonstration Rocket for Agil...
JWST Detects Molecule on Exoplanet That’s Only Made by Life, Is It the Smoking Gun?
18 Sep 2023, 16:50 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / By most ostensible measures, the observable universe is so enormous, so widespread, and so indescribably vast that the chances of finding life somewhere in the cosmos seem more like a mathematical certainty than conjecture. Still, this doesn't...
Meet Lochness, the Cleanest Coyote-Swapped Fox Body Mustang We've Seen in Ages
17 Sep 2023, 19:58 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / In 2023, vintage Fox body Ford Mustangs and modern Coyote V8s are like peanut butter and jelly. It's as if the world suspects the two to pair together in a mundane, almost routine way. Standing out in a crowd of so many Coyote-swapped Fox bodi...
UAW Declares War on Detroit's Big Three, Commences Strike Against GM, Ford, and Stellantis
15 Sep 2023, 23:20 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / After months of back-and-forth negotiations between America's three preeminent automakers and United Auto Workers, the nation's largest auto-industry union, a full-on workers' strike, which experts warned could be catastrophic for th...