Benny Kirk
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World’s Greatest Tri-Five? Roadster Shop LT5-Swappeed ’55 210 Is Pure Restomod Perfection
31 May 2024, 03:39 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / For roughly the last 70 years, the competition to see who has the coolest custom Chevy Tri-Five hasn't stopped raging even slightly. Decades after their heyday, people are still finding ways to make these timeless classic mid-50s Chevy 150s, 2...
One-of-One Boeing Skyfox Jet Trainer Begins Restoration at Palm Springs Air Museum
30 May 2024, 19:47 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Is it a T-33 Shooting Star with collagen injections, as the US Air Force equivalent of a restomod, or something in between? Whatever the case, the Boeing Skyfox was an advanced jet trainer prototype quite unlike any built before or after it. Over a...
Budget Model Y? Chinese Firm Skywell Drops BE11 Crossover EV in United Kingdom
29 May 2024, 00:13 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / With the economic future of Great Britain more in doubt than it's been since World War II, what Britians need more than anything is not fancy luxury EVs but rather plucky, affordable ones that people actually want to buy. But is the Chinese EV...
Dat Notch Doe: This '63 Mercury Monterey Breezeway Looks Like Nothing Built Today
28 May 2024, 16:24 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / When we tell you that American automakers used to be able to design and build whatever the hell they fancied, it wouldn't be hyperbole. Without federal regulations for safety or emissions to deal with yet, Ford, Chrysler, GM, and AMC could des...
Part Corvette, Part Land Cruiser, This LS3-Swapped 80 Series Makes Perfection Go Faster
26 May 2024, 17:30 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / There aren't too many normal non-supercars out there that grown men will go all fuzzy inside over. On that short list of "normal" vehicles, the 80-series Toyota Land Cruiser is a top contender. With superb off-road capability and unm...
Bugatti’s Chiron Bows Out in Style, Pays Tribute to Type 55 With 1-of-1 Sur Mesure
23 May 2024, 20:08 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / The Bugatti Chiron's production run may be at its end, but as Bugatti closes the Chiron chapter and moves away from strictly ICE powerplants, one last opportunity to look at Bugatti's progress, both present and, past is certainly in order...
Of Blood and Fiberglass: The Insane Story Behind Fiberfab Kit Cars
22 May 2024, 00:32 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Suppose you're out for a cruise one weekend around the neighborhood. The weather is warm, and the birds are chirping through your open drop-top when you round a corner and see what looks an awful lot like a late '60s Ford GT40 r...
Poor Man's GT40? This Valkyrie Avenger GT Kit Car Looks the Part, Lacks the Power
19 May 2024, 19:28 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / A genuine Ford GT40 race car from the 1960s with the right specs is a legitimate seven-figure collector's item. Being a piece of automotive mythology at this point, its value will only ever increase from here on out. That's why a fair few...
Part Tri-Five, Part Viper, This '55 Chevy 210 Packs the Spirit of a Serpent
19 May 2024, 18:44 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Ever wonder why baby boomers seem to never get bored of this one handful of Chevrolets built between 1955 and 1957? Banal as it might seem to modern senses, the much-beloved Chevy Tri-Fives (Nomads, Bel Airs, 150s, and 210s) are to older boomers wh...
Black-on-Red '65 Impala Wagon Flexes Original 409 Big Block, One of Only 82
19 May 2024, 16:58 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Classic wagons don't get enough love. It's as if the average American gearhead's obsession with 60s American iron starts and ends with Chargers, Chevelles, and Shelby Cobras. You know, the poster pin-up heroes. But it's easy to ...
JDM EuroVan? This 1996 Mazda Bongo is Way More Quirky Than a Sienna or Caravan
19 May 2024, 05:01 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / A good portion of our audience is young petrolheads with even younger families. People who lament having to ditch their drop tops and sports coupes for something big enough to hall the kids, their stuff, and all their friends back and forth from sc...
President Biden Claps Back at Boeing and Shifty Airlines, Signs FAA Reform Bill
18 May 2024, 21:04 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / With the aviation community at large looking squarely on Boeing for the entirety of 2024, the ongoing debacle of the 737 MAX program has finally gone to the President's desk. With a single stroke of his pen, President Joe Biden signed a $105 b...
Tiny Moon Amalthea Photobombs NASA Juno Probe Photo of Jupiter, Looks Super Cute
16 May 2024, 23:58 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Do you sometimes forget the Jupiter has a lot more than a handful of major moons? It's not hard to, considering the media only ever seem to talk about four of them. But recently, a little Jovian moon not of the Galilean family, had a brief but...
Mitsubishi Plots its Return to Greatness in North America, Announces Momentum 2030 Project
16 May 2024, 19:43 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / In spite of never going bankrupt even once in the 21st century, it feels like we've been mourning the death of Mitsubishi in North America since the Lancer Evo X bit the dust nearly ten years ago. Depending on who you talk to, they'll arg...
Artemis Accords Finishes Drag Race to 40 Signatories, Welcomes Lithuania
16 May 2024, 00:53 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Admittedly, the nomenclature surrounding the Artemis Accords can be a bit confusing. This non-binding agreement between nations across the globe hoping to hitch a ride to the Moon and beyond aboard future NASA Artemis missions is, in fact, not rela...
This Turbo Billet Audi TT VR6 Makes WW2 Fighter Plane Horsepower, Runs Low Six 1/8-Miles
14 May 2024, 19:06 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Back in the early-to-mid 1940s, the German Messerschmitt Bf-109G fighter plane's 35.7-L Daimler V12 made the neighborhood of 1,500 horsepower. In its day, the German Luftwaffe, its corpulent, drug-addled leader included, would'...
GMC Hummer EV Goes Right-Hand Drive in Dubai, Courtesy of Global Conversions
14 May 2024, 03:51 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Do you think the GMC Hummer EV is a silly car to own in Europe, Asia, or the Middle East? Do you figure the pavement beneath its tires would quake as a Hummer EV trundled through London, Dubai, or Tokyo? Do you reckon most of the roads and streets ...
BFG Just Dropped the Most Important Off-Road Tire in a Decade, Company Reps Explain
10 May 2024, 20:32 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / BFGoodrich recently had their mic-drop moment in a year that's proving to be a make-or-break one for off-road vehicles and all their aftermarket accessories. In front of countless raving fans, BFG unveiled the successor tire to the much belove...
These Mad Lads Gutted a '75 Trans Am 455 and LT4-Swapped It, Results Are Insane
9 May 2024, 19:31 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / If the Federal Government never asked General Motors to ax some of their brands after their late 2000s bailout and Pontiac hadn't been chosen as the sacrificial lamb, what would the brand look like today? We'll never get the answer to tha...
Four-Wheeled Blasphemy, This 1937 Ford Pickup Packs a JDM Surprise
9 May 2024, 14:59 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / There are a few unwritten house rules among restomod builders. Number one, on a long enough timeline, every car gets an LS swap. Two, if you use anything but a Ford nine-inch rear end, you're basically a chump, and three, don't shove a Ja...