Benny Kirk
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Kindred's 1969 Camaro LT5 Might Just Be Total Restomod Perfection
22 Nov 2022, 01:27 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Will we ever get tired of staring in awe at 1969 Camaros? Well, we'd have to grow bored of puppies, fragrant green grass, rainbows, and waterfalls before that happened. That's because the people who build restomods of these cars tend to t...
58 Years Ago Today, New York City's Longest, Most Polarizing Auto Bridge Opened
21 Nov 2022, 21:40 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / A bridge designed for carrying passenger cars in a major metro area tends to develop a certain unsavory mythos about itself, whether it's merited or not. In New York City, several bridges and tunnels have this reputation. But where you tend to...
Meteor 27-Liter Special Rocks a V12 Tank Engine That Menaced the German Army, Now for Sale
21 Nov 2022, 20:08 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / The Rolls Royce Meteor V-12 is a Second World War British tank engine that's probably best known for living its life in the shadow of its more powerful sibling. That, of course, is the Merlin aero engine found on Spitfires and Mustangs, among ...
All-New 2024 Mercedes E-Class Leaked Images Depict Fresh Front End and Dashboard Design
21 Nov 2022, 16:58 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / The upcoming Mercedes-Benz E-Class shows up in leaked photos, displaying its front fascia and dashboard design. The new-gen E-Class is set to be revealed in 2023 as a 2024 model. For those unaware, the Mercedes E-Class has been one of Mercedes-B...
Need a Legit Classic Car on the Cheap? Get This 1987 Nissan 300ZX
20 Nov 2022, 21:16 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / There's something wonderful about a classic car with one owner through the decades. One person to care for it, maintain it, and keep it on the road as the pages of history flip all the while. It's another blessing when the person selling ...
Artemis I Nearly Complete With Days Long Drag Race to Lunar Orbit
20 Nov 2022, 16:34 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Well, folks, so much for Artemis I not making it off the ground. From the moment the world's first SLS rocket lit its main engines, it was a mad dash to Low Earth Orbit and beyond. Artemis I's Orion crew-rated spacecraft is currently ...
This 1971 Mercury Montego Cyclone Lived in the Shadow of Giants, Now’s Its Time To Shine
20 Nov 2022, 01:04 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / The 1971 Mercury Montego is one of those classic muscle cars that is, for the most part, unjustly buried in the history books. Deep behind more well-known and prestigious American nameplates that it shared the roads with. At least the Montego mo...
These Guys Made Exhaust Valves Out of Old Soviet Coins, Are They Made of Stalinium?
19 Nov 2022, 21:23 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Whoever said Ladas were appalling rust buckets simply doesn't understand the circumstances Eastern Europeans had forced upon them in the times they were built. Garage 54's English-translated YouTube video shows that the top half of a dere...
Massive Tesla Recall Nabs 321,000 U.S. Model 3s and Model Ys, See If Yours Is Afflicted
19 Nov 2022, 19:46 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / It's been a crazy last few months for all three of Elon Musk's privately owned megacompanies. But in the background, happening more or less concurrently with all the drama with Twitter is a potentially problematic recall of over 300,000 T...
Zora Arkus-Duntov: The Engineer Who Was Right About the Mid-Engine Corvette All Along
19 Nov 2022, 05:39 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / There's really only one word in the English language to describe the life of the man behind the Corvette. If we had to choose, that word would be "tenacity." Zora Arkus-Duntov certainly played the biggest role in the car nameplate�...
The First Human to Walk on the Moon in 53 Years Could Be Canadian, Here's How
18 Nov 2022, 23:37 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / It'd be a bit of a misnomer to call the great crewed spaceflight renaissance a space race in the traditional sense. At least, not in the same way it was the first time around back in the 1960s. Unlike Apollo, the Artemis program is designed to...
This 1969 MG MGB Packs a Sensationally Swedish Surprise Under the Hood
18 Nov 2022, 20:29 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / The MG B engine turned out to be a remarkably peppy and durable little motor. That's in spite of the modern-day rap of mid-century British sports cars for being unreliable rust buckets. It turns out that not everything people say on the Intern...
This Twin-Turbo LSX Swapped Suzuki Cappuccino Defies Common Sense, That's Why We Love It
18 Nov 2022, 17:08 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / The Suzuki Cappuccino is perhaps the very definition of a Japan-only JDM sports car that North Americans were never supposed to know existed. Let alone lust over the prospects of swapping an engine nearly bigger than the car itself. But with th...
Bomber for Bentley: a Set of Ski Gear Fit For the Multi Millionaire Who Drives a Bentayga
17 Nov 2022, 02:58 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Do you drive a Bently Bentayga? If you do, you no doubt have the moolah to blow on accessories for your various non-office activities. Some prefer sailing, golfing, or country club cruising, while others prefer far colder winter sports like skiing....
This 1972 Ford Country Squire on Dually Wheels Both Confuses and Excites Us
17 Nov 2022, 02:08 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / The seventh-generation Ford Country Squire is the epitome of an old-school grandpa's car. The kind of vehicle countless thousands of Gen-X kids grew up in the back of and then one day drove for the very first time around a decade or so later. ...
Ultra Rare Triple Black 1994 Porsche 911 Turbo S Is a 7-Figure Car Every Day of the Week
16 Nov 2022, 20:25 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Well over a million Porsche 911's have rolled off German factory floors since 1964. Less than 100 of them make up the rolling stock of 1994 911 Turbo S models with the 3.6-liter turbo boxer engine. In many respects, it's the holy grail of...
This Ford Ranger Raptor Will Run Wild at 2023's Baja 1000, Promo Vid Looks Stunning
16 Nov 2022, 19:12 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / The Baja 1000 is the most grueling off-road race in the Western Hemisphere. If not for the Dakar rally on the other side of the world, it might as well be the most brutal in the world. That's why it's an impact statement on the part of Fo...
At Long Last, Artemis I Launches With Flying Colors, Proves the Haters Wrong
16 Nov 2022, 07:13 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Forget every not-nice thing everyone has ever said about the SLS rocket. At just before 1:47 a.m. EST, the main engines of the Artemis I booster rocket roared to life after nearly two months of waiting since the first series of launch attempts in l...
Propel S1 Electric Outboard Motor Here to Make Leisure Boating a Lot Less Noisy
16 Nov 2022, 03:36 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / A short while ago, I was talking with my colleague, good buddy, and sailing enthusiast Tim McKenzie. As an old-school kind of gent, he said he doesn't quite jive with two modern paradigms more than any other. Electric cars and motorized boats....
This Might Be the Last Nice Bone-Stock 1996 Honda Civic Hatchback Left
16 Nov 2022, 02:48 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Being more efficient than the original Beetle and more fun to drive than the equivalent Toyota Corolla, the sixth-generation Civic was an undisputed landmark in the history of JDM manufacturers in the United States. By 2022, most examples of the Ci...