Benny Kirk
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Imported 1989 Diesel Datsun Pickup Here to Steal F-150s Lunch Money
16 Jan 2022, 21:16 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Americans in their shiny new Dodge Ram Cummins diesel trucks probably felt pretty smug about themselves in the year of our lord 1989. Their powerful Cummins turbodiesel engines suddenly made every other domestic truck look weak and meager. Little d...
Up Close and Personal With Space Shuttle Discovery, Still Sports Char Marks From Re-Entry
16 Jan 2022, 20:39 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Our trip to the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, Virginia, was one of the most exciting trips we've taken for Spotlight USA thus far. But we've saved the best for the last folks. There's one reason most people are drawn t...
The Slant Nosed 930 Porsche 911 Was a Machine Like No Other, Here's Why You May Love It
16 Jan 2022, 18:42 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Porsche 911s from before the turn of the 1990s are so remarkably different than 911s built today. It really is astonishing when you look at them side by side and see how much progress has been made in 30 years. But there's perhaps a no better ...
Legendary Skyline R34 Battles Modern Titan Lambo Huracan STO, Results May Surprise You
16 Jan 2022, 03:43 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / You might think pitting a vintage Nissan GTR R34 against a fire-spitting modern Lamborghini Huracan STO would be like pitting an Xbox Series X against a Sega Genesis. Thankfully, hardware advancements aren't nearly as profound in cars as in vi...
MiG-19 Fargo: The Black Sheep of the MiG Family
16 Jan 2022, 01:54 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / The only sin the Mikoyan Gurevich MiG-19 (NATO Codename: Fargo) ever committed was being built in the wrong place at the wrong time. Too close to the MiG-17 to stand out on its own and too close to the iconic MiG-21 to get much time to shine. But t...
Hiller Flying Platform: Personal Hover Transportation or Elaborate Meat Grinder?
15 Jan 2022, 19:06 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / When we tell you the U.S. Military tried absolutely everything to try and one-up the Soviets during the Cold War, we mean it in with the most literal form possible. Because in no other sane society would anything as the ludicrously bat-you-know...
School Bus Yellow GMC Suburban 454 Looks Straight out of the Beatles Yellow Submarine
14 Jan 2022, 21:35 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / If the photo date markings are anything to go by, this 1979 school-bus yellow GMC Suburban has been on sale via a private seller on autotrader.com for far too long. These old Suburbans are so profoundly different from the models built today. Its no...
YouTube Clown Buys Rusty Deathtrap Subaru Baja, The Fail Only Intensifies
14 Jan 2022, 21:16 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Most of the time, when Tyler Hoover of Hoovies Garage on YouTube finds a cheap hooptie that drains his bank account, we sit back and laugh. This time around, the Subaru Baja XT 2.5 Turbo he picked up at auction sight unseen turned out to have issue...
Tony Stewart Racing Enters First NHRA Drag Racing Season, Here's Why it's Ground Breaking
14 Jan 2022, 20:18 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Anthony Wayne Stewart, or Tony, as he'd much rather you refer to him, is mostly known for his exploits on NASCAR oval tracks. That includes his accomplishments as a driver as well as a team owner. But perhaps the most successful stock car driv...
Hide Your Kids, Spent Nuclear Fuel Tank Trucking its Way Across Pennsylvania
14 Jan 2022, 20:16 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Suppose your only frame of reference for nuclear power is Three Mile Island or Chernobyl. In that case, you probably find the thought of a nuclear fuel tank crossing a major interstate to be completely horrifying. Rest assured, the superload curren...
Beefy Rokon Trailbreaker is Like a Jeep on Two Wheels, Needs Major TLC
12 Jan 2022, 20:13 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / You'd be forgiven for not being aware of Rokon Motorcycles. It's not like they're mentioned in the same breath as Harley Davidson or Ducatti. But what some will argue Rokon did better than anyone was building rugged, dependable off-r...
Republic Seabee: Post War America's Idea of a Personal Leisure Flying Boat
12 Jan 2022, 16:33 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / If you're familiar with Republic Aviation at all, it's likely because of their Iconic P-47 Thunderbolt or A-10 Thunderbolt II attack aircraft. These two respective aircraft would be the envy of any self-respecting aerospace manufacturer, ...
New My Porsche App Ready to Change the Porsche Driver Experience for the Better
12 Jan 2022, 14:56 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / You'd be hard-pressed to sell cars from any particular brand these days without a specially dedicated app for the vehicle and the brand that built it. This is an issue that Porsche is solving with the new My Porsche app. Let's see if it&#...
Does This $500 Dodge Intrepid Beat Taking the Bus?
11 Jan 2022, 19:20 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / A short while ago, our esteemed colleague Cristian Gnaticov showed us one of the cheapest used cars currently for sale today in America. Well, let's see if we can't do any better with a fresh set of listings. After hours of perusing, we t...
Sukhoi Su-26: What the Russians Build When not Making Fighter Jets
11 Jan 2022, 17:52 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / When most people think of the Sukhoi Design Bureau, they think of a company that builds the latest and greatest in military jet technology. A company laser-focused on designing military planes better and more durably than their western counterparts...
Can't Afford to Pay $6.1 Million for a Porsche 550 Spyder? Try This Faithful Replica
11 Jan 2022, 17:09 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / How'd you like to buy your very own vintage Porsche 550 racing sports car? Well, unless you have a spare several million dollars lying around under your mattress, that's not going to happen. A better sell is to build an all-new chassis an...
Lockheed Martin Inks Deal to Beef Up Egypt's Fleet of Apache Choppers
11 Jan 2022, 16:24 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / The AH-64 Apache attack helicopter is as prevalent on battlefields across the globe as any other military chopper. Including Air Forces in the Middle East like Egypt. Now, it's been learned that Lockheed-Martin, the American military-industria...
Riddled With Potholes, New York's Least Favorite Road Promised More State Aid
11 Jan 2022, 15:30 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Long Island natives have turned complaining about stuff into an art form. So as state roads and highways continue to deteriorate, the calls for something to be done regarding the innumerable potholes have only gotten louder. It's at the point ...
Dodge Dart Gets Serviced, Sludge City, USA, Under the Hood
11 Jan 2022, 14:53 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / The modern iteration of the Dodge Dart was a cheap, unreliable, epic fail. Needless to say, not quite Civic or Corolla material. But a fair few of them are still on the road. One of which was purchased by the YouTube DIY guru WatchJRGo. His Dart sp...
Custom 1986 Chevy S10 Sports Mysterious Engine Under the Hood, for Sale for Cheap
10 Jan 2022, 21:31 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Is there anything more pure or wholesome on planet Earth than a custom Chevy S-10? It's like the white bread of light-duty trucks, always plentiful and always ready to be made better with an assortment of automotive condiments. Ham-fisted ...