Benny Kirk
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This LS2-Swapped 1939 Buick Special Prays at the Altar of Monocles and 93 Octane
15 Sep 2023, 21:50 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Petrolheads today tend to gloss over cars and trucks built before World War II. It seems there's simply more objectively cool stuff built in the 50s and 60s than there was before WWII popped off in 1939. Well, this 1939 Buick Special was one o...
Pegaso BMR VRAC: The Ultra-Rare Spanish Armored Vehicle That Showed Up in Ukraine
15 Sep 2023, 20:32 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / The Russian invasion of Ukraine has seen a slew of vehicles on its battlefields in the last 18 months since the invasion began. Armored war machines from as far back as World War II, often ripped right from museum display pieces, through to the pre...
Think Jeep Renegades are Pathetic Vehicles? This Hemi Swap Wants a Word With You
14 Sep 2023, 18:07 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / The Jeep Renegade is a cute little off-roader that's committed its fair share of automotive sins over the years. Faulting wiring harnesses, lurching transmissions, and that trademark shoddy Chrysler build quality that's seldom ever improv...
NASA Finishes Oxygen Production Experiment on the Surface of Mars: No, It’s Not Alchemy
14 Sep 2023, 16:30 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / If you've ever seen renderings of what Mars would look like if it were a lush, fertile jungle planet with vast oceans and a thick, luscious atmosphere, such a world could only exist if there was surplus, heck, even an abundance of oxygen which...
FAA Wraps Up SpaceX Starship Explosion Investigation, Demands Corrections Are Made
10 Sep 2023, 20:14 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Perhaps no other entity in the world was more eager to learn why SpaceX's first test flight of Starship ended with a tremendous explosion than the Federal Aviation Administration. That's right, the same governing body that keeps civil air...
Martin Marietta's Spacemaster Shuttle Concept Was Bonkers, Comes to Life on YouTube
8 Sep 2023, 20:47 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / It's easy to forget just how many different design proposals were submitted for the Space Shuttle before NASA finally decided on Rockwell's proposal. Something that, at least to their minds, made logical sense. Never mind that the Shuttle...
This LTV A-7E Corsair II is the World's Coolest Lawn Ornament, Now for Sale
8 Sep 2023, 20:35 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / What's the first thing that comes to your mind when a clapped-out old jalopy of an automobile is strewn out over someone's front lawn in a particularly rough part of town? Would you wonder why the owner seems not to have a problem with a ...
California Pumps Breaks on EV Rebates for Wealthy Buyers, Focuses on Lower Incomes
8 Sep 2023, 20:29 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Since the turn of the 21st century, perhaps no force in the world has been more influential in the global drive towards abandoning fossil fuel propulsion in our automobiles in favor of more sustainable all-electric propulsion than the state of Cali...
This Duratec-Swapped Metro 6R4 Replica Is Probably Faster Than the Original
8 Sep 2023, 20:21 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / For most regular folks, the MG Metro 6R4 rally racing hero is pure unobtanium. A timeless classic of Group B rally racing with a peculiar V64V V6 engine forged just for winning races and manufactured in just few enough numbers to make them rare bey...
Convair ConVairCar: The Adorable Flying Car From the Team That Gave Us the B-36 Peacemaker
7 Sep 2023, 20:49 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Very rarely does a roadable aircraft, aka a flying car, ever make sense beyond the realm of an 11-year-old grade schooler's imagination. Only in the last decade has the idea become even remotely feasible. And even then, this only applies to th...
Five Months Into the Fray, Ukraine’s First Challenger 2 MBT Appears Destroyed
7 Sep 2023, 05:25 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Seventy-five tons, over eight meters long, and packing a 120 mm rifled cannon that makes the 88s on old World War II German tanks feel sorry for themselves. These are just the highlights of the qualities that made the British Challenger 2 mai...
Motorists Won’t Stop Plowing Into the Front of This Long Beach Antique Shop, Owner Fed Up
7 Sep 2023, 04:20 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / The average Southern California intersection on any given rush hour is a nightmare within itself. With traffic jams and hideous accidents just another part of life for locals of the Los Angeles suburb of Long Beach, it takes something truly extraor...
Reno Air Races' Most Famous P-51 Mustang Back in the Air After Four Year Restoration
7 Sep 2023, 02:31 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / The North American P-51 Mustang had a remarkably illustrious career in the years after the Second World War, and we're not talking about its exploits fighting jets over Korea's 38th Parallel. Instead, we're talking about its consider...
EA Sports and Codemasters Reveal New WRC Game, Hits Shelves This November
6 Sep 2023, 16:00 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Perhaps more than any other racing game developer in the scene today, there are more lapsed fans of the Dirt franchise from Codemasters out there longing for a rally racing game done the old-fashioned way. You know, with realistic, exciting racing ...
Another United Auto Workers Strike Could Shake Up The Industry Like Never Before
6 Sep 2023, 03:02 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / There's a storm brewing in the waters off the coast of Detroit. And no, we're not talking about the one that wrecked the Edmund Fitzgerald. But with the American auto sector stationed in the city still reeling from a global health crisis ...
This Guy's 1981 DeLorean Sports the Beating Heart of a Modern Chevy Truck
5 Sep 2023, 21:46 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / At this stage, is LS swapping an old DeLorean really all that special? Well, as the saying goes, everything on a long enough timeline gets an LS swap eventually. But don't think you only have one option when it comes to making this timeless ye...
This 1933 Caproni Ca.100 Is Italy's Oldest Flight-Worthy Aircraft, and It's for Sale
5 Sep 2023, 17:03 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / For all their contributions to the automotive space, the history behind Italy's century-old aircraft industry is overlooked more often than not. If you ask us, that's a real shame. Because some of the most innovative, quirky, and downrigh...
Charger and Challenger Hellcats are Still America's Most Stolen Vehicles, Shocks Nobody
5 Sep 2023, 14:02 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / What happens when you take 6.2 liters of cubic displacement, sprinkle some Chrysler HEMI magic over it, stick on a supercharger larger than some economy car engines, and then shove the whole thing under the hood of Chargers, Challengers, Jeeps, and...
Pragyan: The Plucky Indian Moon Rover That Deserves Your Respect
5 Sep 2023, 02:35 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / For far too long, wide-scale space exploration was a practice gate kept by the world's preeminent superpowers. Be it the Soviets, the Russians after that, the Chinese, and, of course, the United States, only countries with enough economic clou...
Roadster Shop's Coyote-Swapped '55 Ford F-100 Makes Modern Trucks Look Feeble
3 Sep 2023, 19:04 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / The second-generation Ford F-100 can be seen as the nexus where Ford trucks became a byword for the most desirable vehicles in America. Tens of millions of F-series trucks have been sold since this 1955 example left the factory floor. But thanks to...