Benny Kirk
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P-26 Peashooter: Before The Super Hornet, This Was the Last Fighter Built by Boeing
22 Jan 2022, 17:54 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / If you're familiar at all with Boeing, it's likely because of their world-famous big airliners, the 707, 747, and so on. But one area the current world's largest aerospace company neglected for over seven decades was the single-engin...
Fat Boy Slim: Fairchild C-123K Provider, The Forgotten Workhorse of the Cold War
22 Jan 2022, 04:03 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / You learn things you never would have guessed possible when you travel the country, looking for places showcasing airplanes for a living. The first and foremost among these lessons is that aviation history isn't as cut and dry as we might ...
Man Comes Close to Firing Up 20 Year Abandoned Cessna, Until Shady Disaster Strikes
21 Jan 2022, 21:39 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / If you haven't been keeping up with the saga of the Rebuild Rescue YouTube channel and their quest to revive a long-abandoned Cessna twin-engine private airplane, you owe it to yourself to go and check it out. The unfolding tale of how one...
Tesla Swapped Fifth-Gen Mustang Makes the Mach-E Feel Awkward
21 Jan 2022, 04:01 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / People are still belly-aching about Ford's latest performance luxury crossover EV being labeled with the iconic Mustang badge. If you're one of these people, answer us this. Would you feel more satisfied if the EV Mustang looked somet...
Bugatti Celebrates 500 Chirons Sold, Looks Back on Five Years of Glory
20 Jan 2022, 22:59 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Suppose you thought the Bugatti Veyron was as poetic and as spectacular an achievement as has ever graced the automotive sector. In that case, the successor Chiron is delivering just as impactful of a final act. With 500 bespoke models sold transla...
SpaceX Inks $102 Million Deal to Demonstrate Tech to the U.S. Air Force
20 Jan 2022, 21:29 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Elon Musk just wouldn't be enough of a Bond-adjacent trillionaire tortured genius without the U.S. Military snooping around in all projects. Whether it's rumors of him pitching his Tesla Cyber Truck to the Army or confirmed reports of a w...
Peugeot's 9X8 Hypercar Struts Its Stuff With Pro Photographer, Looks Breathtaking
20 Jan 2022, 20:51 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Peugeot is adamant about categorizing their new 9X8 hybrid hypercar as far more than just a no-rules race car. But an absolute masterclass in design form following engineering function. So when the Peugeot team decides the 9X8 needs a professional ...
1-of-1 1969 Ford Fairlane Packs Beastly Mystery Under the Hood, the Ultimate of Its Kind
20 Jan 2022, 19:02 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Usually, when someone boasts about their ownership of a "one of a kind automobile," it's a bit like the old folk tales about magical witches giving birth to rabbits in the middle of the forest with no one else around. A great sto...
Look Out Corvette C8 Z06: Honda Starts Production of NSX Type S and It's a Game Changer
20 Jan 2022, 17:04 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / The Honda Performance Manufacturing Center in Marysville, Ohio, must have felt like the opening kickoff of the Superbowl on January 20th, 2022. It was the day Honda announced that the limited-edition Acura NSX Type S had officially begun production...
Toyota Gazoo Racing North America Expands into NHRA, Here's Why It's Groundbreaking
19 Jan 2022, 21:27 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / You wouldn't believe the fuss people kicked up back when Toyota joined the almost exclusively American-operated NASCAR Cup series back in 2004. Some people, even today, are still not over it. With that in mind, we can only wonder if the respon...
Porsche Tiger Tank: Ferdinand Porsche's Worst Kept Secret
19 Jan 2022, 21:19 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Ferdinand Porsche was an eccentric man. A man of many talents, all under the general purview of engineering. But to say that all of his inventions and his machines were built for the betterment of mankind is not entirely accurate. A few of his idea...
1964 Plymouth Valiant Wagon Disguised as Idlewild Airport Taxi, Packs Mystery Under Hood
19 Jan 2022, 16:38 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Airport transportation vehicles have gotten more than a little shabby in the last 50 years. We won't have to explain this to you if you've even taken one trip by bus to a New York City airport. But it didn't use to be this way. The s...
2022 Cannondale Synapse Endurance Bike: Like a Luxury GT Sports Car on Two Thin Tires
19 Jan 2022, 07:03 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / It takes a bicycle of exceptionally high quality to spark the interest of some people more privy to cheeseburger munching and late-night carb binges than exercise. But if the reward for getting in shape is investing in an endurance bike as spec...
Classic 1997 Chevy Tahoe Turbodiesel is a Very Rare Breed Indeed, Even With 180k Miles
18 Jan 2022, 18:44 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / You may remember back to August of this year when GM announced they'd suspended production of their new three-liter Duramax turbodiesel engine at the hand of a relentless chip shortage crisis that threatened to bring the entire industry to its...
James Webb Space Telescope Passes 90% to L2 Orbit, Calibrates Mirrors
18 Jan 2022, 18:00 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / As of just after 12 PM Eastern Standard Time on January 18th, 2022, the James Webb Space Telescope has completed a tantalizing 92.5207% of its long journey to its L2 orbital insertion. An astonishing one million miles (1,609,344 km) away from home....
New Mopar At-Home Plug-In Wall Chargers Will Give You Full Charge in Less Than Two Hours
18 Jan 2022, 17:34 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Who would have ever thought that we would be mentioning the words "Mopar" and "Charger" without the words "V8" or "Muscle Car" somewhere in the mix? In fact, the latest Mopar charger news has nothing at all t...
California Warehouse Hides Breathtaking Collection of Classic British Austins
18 Jan 2022, 17:02 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / If not for a couple of not-so-flattering cameos in iconic Top Gear episodes, it'd be entirely possible for the Austin Motorcar Company of Great Britain to be a complete unknown to modern American gearheads. But these episodes baked Austin into...
BMW USA's Final V12 Ready for July Launch and Here's Why It's Heartbreaking
18 Jan 2022, 15:31 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / It's not often appropriate to openly weep over something as mundane and insignificant in the universe at large as a car engine. But when BMW announced the deployment of what they call The Final V12 this upcoming July, the flood of emotions, he...
Famous Mechanic Recommends Maintained Rolls-Royce Silver Spur Over a Shabby Buick Encore
18 Jan 2022, 14:36 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Jeremy Clarkson once humorously stated that if a Rolls-Royce luxury car were to break down right in front of the factory, its builders wouldn't be able to get it running. In reality, this is only true because most owners won't bother to m...
Makes of Bonkers Rally Fighter Go Bust, Here's Why It's So Unfortunate
16 Jan 2022, 21:48 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Specialty rally race vehicles are a niche so specific and so limited in scale. It's anyone's wonder how any of them stay in business very long. Our point is made very clear by the unfortunate bad luck as of late for Local Motors, makers o...