Benny Kirk
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A Closer Look at the New GMC Sierra HD Ultimate, a Common Man's Truck In Layers of Luxury
6 Oct 2022, 22:56 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Get used to it, you purists out there. The lines between the average workman's pickup truck and a luxury car are blurring more and more as each year passes. If you lament how new trucks feel obliged to be trimmed like Bentleys on the inside an...
Hendrick Performance 2010 Camaro T/A LSX 454 is the Meanest Camaro Race Car on Earth
6 Oct 2022, 19:18 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / The 2010 model year Chevy Camaro may one day become an all-time future classic. Why? Well, it has a lot to do with a certain transforming robot called Bumblebee. But it's not the only reason, as is evident by this 2010 Camaro former NASCAR Cup...
This Cummins Shuttle Bus is YouTube's Favorite Mechanic's Next Project, Bound for RV Life
6 Oct 2022, 18:35 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / One of the bread-and-butter areas of interest for our readers at autoevolution is DIY camper conversions. There's something about taking a perfectly normal passenger or commercial vehicle and turning it into something you could eat, sleep, and...
This Porsche 914 Is Not a Volkswagen-Powered Ride, Packs Tesla Heart
4 Oct 2022, 22:54 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / The Porsche 914 is not a Volkswagen Beetle, at least not entirely. There were a fair amount of VW engines and other parts underneath the eloquent sports car body. Still, compared to the 911 of the day, the 914 is often the butt of people's uns...
Fully Restored 1969 Camaro 427 COPO Clone is Ready to Gap Sports Cars a Quarter Its Age
4 Oct 2022, 22:12 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Perhaps no combination of two nouns and a year post AD exists that's more invigorating than Chevrolet Camaro and 1969. That was the year the Camaro cemented its legacy as an all-time great American automobile. Even bare-basic models with s...
STS-93: The Wild Story of the Space Shuttle Mission That Hauled the Heaviest Payload
4 Oct 2022, 20:20 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / By virtue of its nearly unparalleled power and speed, it's easy to make the correlation between the American Space Shuttle and an exotic supercar like a Ferrari or a McLaren. But if you asked an ex-NASA Shuttle Program engineer which automotiv...
The Peregrine Falcon is a Fighter Jet of the Animal Realm, How Does It Stack Up to an F-16
4 Oct 2022, 16:56 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / We're fans of just about anything that goes crazy fast here at autoevolution, even if on the sneak, sometimes they have wings, a beak, and squawk. But the description of the world's fastest bird, or rather, the world's fastest animal...
Space Station Freedom: America's Idea For The World's Best Space Station Pre ISS
4 Oct 2022, 01:45 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Okay, here's the scoop if you haven't been paying attention. Russia decided to have a big boogaloo in Ukraine early this year, then promptly dropped their support for the International Space Station once their obliged work concludes in 20...
GM Shocks Toyota, Snipes Q3 2022 US Market Sales Crown
3 Oct 2022, 20:43 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / As first reported by Reuters, General Motors has announced they've outsold their arch rivals at Toyota in total sales in the United States after estimates first pegged the company greatly at the hands of inflation. Though no automaker's b...
Artemis I Just Fine After Superstorm Ian, Launch Window Set for mid November
3 Oct 2022, 19:50 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / After three consecutive launch scrubs for a multitude of sometimes head-scratching reasons, NASA's Artemis I mission and its SLS booster rocket are due to depart the Vehicle Assembly Building one more three-mile (4.8 km) trip to Launch Pad 39B...
Sleeper 1971 Chevy Nova's Drab, Brown Exterior Hides Modern 350 Small Block Power
3 Oct 2022, 17:08 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / There's something about the late 60s and early 70s Chevy Novas that makes them profoundly different than American muscle car coupes from the day. Perhaps it's that in a generation where oversized cars were the norm, the comparatively smal...
Sixty Years Ago Today, Wally Schirra Orbited Earth Six Times Aboard Mercury-Atlas 8
3 Oct 2022, 15:50 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / In the era of SpaceX, Blue Origin, and Artemis I, it can be easy to forget rocket science is, well, just that. Before our modern understanding of the ins and outs of spaceflight, pioneers like Walter (Wally) Marty Schirra took leaps of faith aboard...
This 1944 Piper L4B Grasshopper is an Unsung War Hero, Now It's For Sale
2 Oct 2022, 17:30 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Just for the sake of argument, we'd like you to list the most important and famous American military airplanes of the Second World War. Which airplanes would be on your list? Things like P-51 Mustangs, P-47 Thunderbolts, P-38 Lightnings, and ...
WatchJRGo Buys $4,000 Smart Car, Does Some Hilarious Very Light Off-Roading
2 Oct 2022, 16:45 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / WatchJRGo on YouTube is the kind of channel that values the virtues of horsepower, forced induction, and big, smoky burnouts over any semblance of practicality. But that doesn't mean he can't appreciate a great deal when he sees one. Even...
Fully-Restored 1946 Dodge Flatbed Boasts All its Awards and Trophies In the Rear Bed
2 Oct 2022, 16:13 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / When most flatbed trucks pull up to unceremoniously haul disabled vehicles to wherever they wind up, it's usually a sad occasion. Made all the more unpleasant by the drab, borning mid-2010s Ram or Ford trucks used for the job. But if this full...
Driven: 2023 Polaris Ranger XP Kinetic, a Truly Game Changing Electric Side-By-Side UTV
1 Oct 2022, 07:59 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Most people don't need a side-by-side UTV in their lives. But those who do need a machine that's just as adept at getting hard labor done as being a cool off-road toy. Tiny, two-stroke internal combustion engines have the be-all-end-all i...
Someone Paid $100,000 For a 1981 VW "DoKa" With a Truck Bed, Has the World Gone Mad?
30 Sep 2022, 20:24 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Early 80s Volkswagens used to be cheap as a fast food dollar menu during happy hour. You can still find Volkswagen Vanagons in perfectly restored condition for anywhere from $20,000 to $35,000, depending on the specifics. But the in regards to the ...
Gen-III HEMI V8-Swapped 1967 Barracuda Salutes an American Icon Before It Sunsets
30 Sep 2022, 19:50 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Mopar HEMIs are going out with a bang. For all we hear about their inevitable demise, there's still no shortage of amazing custom cars sporting HEMI V8s from all three generations. When generations collide to make a restomod, that's just ...
NASA and SpaceX Want to Reboost Hubble Telescope's Orbit, Here's How
30 Sep 2022, 18:44 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / The last time American astronauts departed a service mission to the Hubble Space Telescope almost 14 years ago, there was an assumption that it would be the last time gloved human hands would ever touch the fabled space telescope. The demise of the...
Toyota's 1UZ-FE V8 Once Humbled BMW, Mercedes, and Cadillac, They Could Do It Again
30 Sep 2022, 18:00 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / The Toyota 1UZ-FE is an engine that needs no introduction. And while we've already gone in depth about the history of this landmark engine for both Toyota and Lexus. We'd like to take the last day of V8 Month here at autoevolution to tell...