Benny Kirk
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World War I Fighter Planes Were Horrifying Deathtraps, Here's Why
24 Dec 2021, 20:28 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / It's a travesty that the First World War so often gets brushed aside in favor of discussing its ostensibly more present-day impactful second boogaloo. That's especially the case when it comes to the fighter aircraft these pioneer aviators...
Here's What Remains of Lady Be Good, A B-24 Liberator Lost in the Desert for Decades
24 Dec 2021, 20:08 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Don't ever say there's no such thing as an excellent lost and found story anymore. Unlike something like the holy grail or the arc of the covenant, long-lost military planes pop up more frequently than you might think. Don't beli...
Years Before the Sidewinder, This German Missile Was the First of its Kind
24 Dec 2021, 20:05 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / We tend to take air-to-air missiles for granted in military fighter jet games like Ace Combat and War Thunder. It doesn't help that you're given an infinite amount of them in their air arcade modes. Things were much more complicated o...
Ten Years Ago, This Rear Engined Scion iQ Drift Missle Stole the Show at SEMA
23 Dec 2021, 21:51 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / It's hard to believe the famous SEMA custom car expo is now over 50 years in the running. It's been going year-to-year solid for generations, save for a 2020 public health crisis snafu. Ten years ago, this tiny little Scion iQ made people...
Mint Condition CF-104 Starfighter is Ready for Mach Two Shenanigans
23 Dec 2021, 20:00 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / We've slowly been compiling a list of the coolest military aircraft currently for sale on civilian resale websites. Last time, we found a parking lot full of SEPECAT Jaguar attack jets. This time around, we have a screaming metal death trap fl...
2022 Avalon Bids Farewell With Class, Adds SE Hybrid Nightshade Edition
23 Dec 2021, 17:20 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / The Avalon has always been the black sheep of the Toyota lineup. Too big to appeal like a Camry, not fancy enough to be a Lexus, and too mainstream to be a BMW 5 Series competitor. Perhaps that's why they've decided to discontinue the mon...
Meet the Mid-Engined Zimmer Quicksilver, The Nuttiest Thing on a Fiero Chassis
22 Dec 2021, 21:12 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Most custom cars based on the Pontiac Fiero of antiquity usually turn out pretty half-baked. If not completely ridiculous, in most cases. But we have to give credit when someone builds something genuinely interesting using the lowly Fiero as a foun...
Fleet of SEPECAT Jaguar Attack Jets For Sale, Ready to Form Worlds Cheapest Air Force
22 Dec 2021, 20:40 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Unless you're an avid War Thunder player, you probably aren't all that familiar with the SEPECAT Jaguar military attack jet. It was one of the most prolific aircraft in European, Indian and South American Air Forces in the late 20th centu...
Bizzare Modified Suzuki Every Van Evokes an Old VW Bus on Acid, It's Also for Sale
22 Dec 2021, 20:33 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / If you despair that the original Volkswagen T2 van never made it out of the 70s, some Japanese modders in the mid-2000s shared that sentiment. Meet this highly modified 2008 Suzuki Every Van. In the event that was a play on words, we're not su...
Would You Buy This 2004 Maybach 57 Over a New Genesis G80?
22 Dec 2021, 16:39 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Maybach didn't become one of the most name-dropped cars in the history of hip-hop for no reason. It's still one heck of a status symbol even years after the brand went away for a while during the 2008 recession and came back in 2015. Nowa...
Gorgeous Mercury Comet Factory Drag Car Steals Hearts One 1/4 at a Time
22 Dec 2021, 15:19 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Factory drag cars are nothing new. Sorry if you were under the assumption that the modern Ford Mustang Cobra jet was something novel. These limited edition drag cars have their true origins in the late 60s. While not the most famous name in drag ra...
Fantastic 5.7 Swapped Plymouth Barracuda Makes Us Wish the Brand Had Survived
21 Dec 2021, 22:33 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / The Plymouth Barracuda is a car that doesn't get enough love these days. Sure, the adjacent HEMI Cuda is an all-time classic, but we love when someone gives the same TLC to the base car for it all. Feast your eyes on a custom 1969 Barracuda bu...
Denver Queer Owned Auto Shop Proves There's Room for Everyone in Petrolhead Land
21 Dec 2021, 20:27 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / We've all no doubt heard that being a humble auto mechanic is a "real man's job." Evidently, we ought to change our vocabulary because the world is changing fast. Gender norms are out, and everyone doing whatever they please wit...
Verge Writer Tells Car Companies To "Shut Up" About EVs and Just Get To Work Making Them
21 Dec 2021, 17:29 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Andrew Hawkins of The Verge took to his company website and lambasted the international auto industry for what he perceived as patting itself on the back for finally transitioning away from fossil fuels on Tuseday. At the same time, most of America...
Meet Thunderpig, The Last Airworthy C-123K Provider on the Planet
21 Dec 2021, 07:02 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / The internet is full of hyperbole. So when we come across something claimed to be the last of its kind in the world, forgive us for being skeptical. We've done the research, and we've crunched the numbers, so when we tell you this is the ...
Once the Planet's Scariest Fighter Jet, This F-15A Now Sits Collecting Bird Droppings
19 Dec 2021, 09:30 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / This Mcdonnel-Douglas F-15A Eagle was very much still in active military service when the Air Heritage Museum in Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania, opened its doors in 1986. Somehow, someway, 35 years have passed since then. Enough time for the once-...
Spotlight USA: Here's Proof You Don't Just Cold Start Classic Warplanes, You Wake Them Up
19 Dec 2021, 08:58 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Not every aerospace museum needs to take up four hangars and a few hundred thousand square feet to be worth visiting. If anything, smaller museums can have a charm all their own. It's our delight to bring you another hidden gem museum that not...
Pray Someone Comes and Restores This Squad of Barn Find UH-1 Huey Choppers
18 Dec 2021, 22:11 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / A group of disused Bell U-1 Iroquois parked outside an airport hangar probably looks like an eyesore. At least if you don't give a rat's rear-end about old warbirds. But to lifelong enthusiasts, it's as close to a genuine barn f...
Taxi Yellow Saab 9-3 Drop Top is a Total Blast From the Past
17 Dec 2021, 22:53 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / It's been five long years since Saab's automotive division closed up shop for good. It's been so long that some of us may have forgotten just why the brand was so beloved by the people who drove it. To give a classic case in point, c...
Chinese Government Pressures Continental to Cut Ties With Lithuania Over Taiwan
17 Dec 2021, 20:24 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / It's par for the course for international auto conglomerates to have petty squabbles with each other. But it's profoundly different when one nation's government pressures an automaker to cut ties with another, with whom they disagree...