Benny Kirk
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This Curtiss P-40 Kittyhawk Was Pulled From the Jungles of Papua New Guinea, Now Restored
13 Oct 2022, 00:41 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Call it the Warhawk, the Kittyhawk, or the Tomahawk. The Curtiss P-40 was a pivotal American piston engine fighter that held down the fort until P-47 Thunderbolt and P-51 Mustang arrived and slowly but surely assured air superiority over Europe. Bu...
Orders Open for 2023 GAD Motors Custom Mercedes-Benz V-Class V8, Only Ten Built
12 Oct 2022, 22:29 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Whether you call it the Viano, the Vito, the V-Class, or the Metris, Mercedes-Benz's flagship passenger van is a global force. One with its fair share of problems, as Doug DeMuro was all too happy to point out a few years ago. But that didn�...
NASA DART Asteroid Impactor Mission Massively Successful, Sped Up Minor Planet's Orbit
12 Oct 2022, 20:30 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Until the 21st century, humanity's capability to defend itself against asteroids, comets, and other nefarious space junk was to make some cheesy Hollywood disaster movies to pre-instill a healthy sense of panic. There have been hiccups alo...
Here's Why You Should Never Use PayPal to Buy a Used Car, It's All in the Fine Print
12 Oct 2022, 05:51 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / The financial sector intersects with the automotive sector more than we'd like to imagine. But at least two entities respective to these industries should always remain separate. These are used cars and PayPal. Not the least bit because of an ...
Veteran Mechanic Preps His 1963 Impala SS for Trip Across America, Starts With the Wheels
12 Oct 2022, 01:55 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / If there's one thing we love to do, it's showcase smaller YouTube channels doing all kinds of cool DIY car projects for us all to enjoy. There's a lot of fish in the proverbial sea of content. Still, we've found one veteran mech...
Crusty 1980 Saab 900 Failed California Smog Test 20 Years Ago, Do You Dare Reviving It?
12 Oct 2022, 00:58 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / It's been over a decade since Saab tragically bit the dust, but that doesn't mean rusty spectators of its past don't roam this mortal plain, cursing the name General Motors over and over again at a frequency as yet undiscovered...
This 1946 Delahaye 135 is a Forgotten Post-War Luxury Gem, a Real Piece of French History
11 Oct 2022, 18:16 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / It's not often we find an automobile these days that makes us here at autoevolution go, "what in the world is this?" Well, here's one of those moments, folks. Forgive some of the younger folks among us for not being up to speed ...
NYPD Declares War on "Ghost Cars" Using Fake Plates and Registrations To Commit Crimes
11 Oct 2022, 02:54 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / New York City locals know the old tricks well. If you want to cross the Whitestone or the Throggs Neck Bridge without paying or carry some questionable cargo in the trunk, you drive what's called a ghost car. What's a ghost car? Well,...
1929 De Soto Six Sedan Emerges From Its Barnyard Crypt, Avoids Sacrifice to the Rust Gods
10 Oct 2022, 22:55 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / If antique cars could talk, what would they say? Would they know the intimate details of everyone who sat inside it? Would it tell stories of wars, famines, economic depressions, and social unrest? Or should we stop anthropomorphizing our automobil...
Kevin Boehm Dominates SRO TC America Finale Weekend, America's Coolest New Racing Series
10 Oct 2022, 20:32 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / It can be difficult for racing fans to commit to an entirely new series. You'd understand CART fans still being bitter about it biting the dust. But if you're into European-style touring car racing, These States United finally has a touri...
The Northrop F-5 Never Flexed Its Muscles With the USAF, Now This One's For Sale
10 Oct 2022, 19:22 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / The only sin the Northrop F-5 twin-engined light fighter ever committed was serving in the shadow of the F-4 Phantom II, the F-15 Eagle, and the F-16 Fighting Falcon. A remarkably quick and agile twin-engine land fighter, F-5 did at least have a pr...
406 Crate V8 Swapped Chevy Corvair Monza Must Make Ralph Nader's Blood Boil
10 Oct 2022, 17:27 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / According to the fervent automotive safety activist Ralph Nader, the rear-engined Chevrolet Corvair was an unstable death trap so egregious he believed they ought to be taken off the road by force and its manufacturer given a hefty fine. Whether or...
The Cirrus Vision SF50 Private Jet Inspired a GTA V Icon, This One's For Sale
9 Oct 2022, 19:52 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Before GTA Online was oversaturated with laser-cannon-wielding jet fighters and physics-defying hovercars, the Buckingham Vestra twin-engine private mini jet was perhaps the most fun unarmed airplane to fly in the game. With jet-powered speed and m...
This 11-Year Old Ferrari 599 SA Aperta is a Million Dollar Car, But Why?
9 Oct 2022, 18:53 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / It's easy to understand why flagship Ferrari hypercars are million-dollar vehicles. But a decade-plus old 599? It's a lovely car in its own right, but that sounds kind of absurd. But don't be fooled. This isn't an average 599 G...
Rich Benoit Fights Back Against Fake EPA Letter, Lawyers Up to Save His Cummins Swap Tesla
8 Oct 2022, 20:39 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / When Rich Benoit of Rich Rebuilds said he wanted to take a salvaged Tesla Model 3 and trade its EV drivetrain for a Cummins Diesel, we had all the confidence that he could pull it off. But as progress maintained steady over the last several months,...
Another Revolution Could Reveal the Secrets of the Elusive Iranian F-14 Tomcat
8 Oct 2022, 00:31 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Iran might be on the precipice of a profound change. Recent protests in response to suspicious deaths of Iranian women in police custody have left the country's leadership in disarray. The country seems to be in a similar state to the one from...
NASA Supercomputer Theorizes the Moon May Have Formed in a Few Hours, Details Inside
7 Oct 2022, 21:36 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / As far as we know, the exact origins of the Moon are a total mystery. Every civilization in recorded history has its own theory. Still, NASA and the science community at large are in search of more concrete facts than what can be derived from ancie...
Boom's Supersonic Airliner is In Big Trouble, Here's Why History is Not on Their Side
7 Oct 2022, 19:23 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / If you know anything about supersonic passenger airliners, you'll know only one of them managed to be any good at their job. That being the Anglo-French Concorde, an airplane that hasn't flown in almost two decades. As of late 2022, the o...
Douglas DC-7: A Landmark Piston Engine Airliner Defined By One Tragic Incident
7 Oct 2022, 18:00 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Hundreds of different passenger airliners have gone into service in the last century-plus. Only a handful went on to be remembered in any substantial way. But the Douglas DC-7 sure did, if not always for the right reasons. If you're aware of i...
Can't Afford a Brand New GMC Sierra HD? This 1996 Model Will Satisfy for Less
7 Oct 2022, 00:50 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Earlier today, GMC unveiled the all-new 2024 Sierra Denali Heavy Duty Ultimate. Considering that's bound to be a $40,000 vehicle at the bare minimum every day of the week, that basically puts it out of the price range of most sensible people. ...