Daniel Patrascu
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Personal motto:
"I truly believe men and fish can coexist peacefully" – George W. Bush
Following several years off the grid, Daniel is back at autoevolution, and seeing how the great crisis of the past decade made the auto industry boring, he grew bored with it too, so he slowly shifted his focus to custom cars, custom motorcycles, and other weird stuff. He also loves ranting about space exploration and robots, because in his view the only way forward for humanity is away from this planet, in metal bodies.
During his time at autoevolution, Daniel put his name on more news articles, coverstories, auto guides, reviews, and editorials than we care count. To slow him down a bit, he was given more responsibilities not long ago, so he is now also in charge with coordinating the editorial team on autoevolution.com.
Long time ago, Daniel also translated Arthur C. Clarke’s novel “The Fountains of Paradise” to Romanian for Paladin Publishing.
1932 Chevy Honolulu LuLu With Matching Trailer and Surfboard Is a Hawaii-Style Beauty
5 Sep 2023, 08:05 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / In most places on this Earth summer is officially over. Sure, the temperatures outside don't really attest to that, but it's doubtful many of us still think about days at the beach anymore. And then we come across something that scream...
BMW iX1 eDrive20 Launches in November as New Entry-Level Electric SUV
5 Sep 2023, 07:22 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / With the launch of the third generation of the X1 last year, German carmaker BMW also let loose the electric variant of the vehicle it calls a Sports Activity Vehicle (SAV), the iX1. It proved rather successful despite being offered so far in a sin...
Hydrogen Toyota Hilux Unveiled as Another Proof Battery Electric Cars Have Won the Battle
5 Sep 2023, 06:31 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / For one reason or another, the automotive industry decided the best way to pursue a green future is to go for battery electric power. Despite the obvious downsides of this approach, that's the reality of our day, and there's a big chance ...
Harley-Davidson Ocean Force Is So Expensive It Wears a Chevrolet Camaro for Wheels
4 Sep 2023, 09:51 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / With enough talent and ideas, customizing a Harley-Davidson motorcycle is not that hard. On top of that, it's not that expensive either, as we've seen time and again memorable bikes coming to light with the minimum of investment. But what...
Restored 1958 Buick Century Caballero Is a Throwback to Beautiful Times
4 Sep 2023, 09:03 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / For many people living in our world today the image of the 1950s, with all its beauties and shortcomings, is one dearly cherished. In the dying stages of the atomic age, our society was engaged in a technological race unlike any other in human hist...
Is That Gum Stuck to My Nuclear Bomber? Plus 4 Other USAF Pics of Exposed Aircraft Skin
4 Sep 2023, 08:03 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / It's Monday, and that means it's time for our weekly dose of U.S. Air Force (USAF) coolness. And this time it's all about aircraft skin, captured on camera from various angles and in various lights as the military aircraft were condu...
Custom Bikes Recap: Modded Indian Scout Crashes Last Week's Custom Harley-Davidson Party
4 Sep 2023, 06:28 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Another week is about to begin and, as usual, we can't have that without taking a look back at what the previous one brought before us in terms of customized motorcycles. A sum up, if you will, of the most exciting two-wheelers we were able to...
1970 Plymouth Cuda Is So Red Inside You'll Forget About Everything Else
2 Sep 2023, 23:20 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / When one is in the market for a muscle or pony car, even of the old but re-made or customized variety, they usually turn to the regular suspects in this segment, the likes of Chevrolet Camaro or Ford Mustang. But if something more exotic is the fav...
Harley-Davidson Gran Turismo Wears a Color We Definitely Want for the Factory Road Glide
2 Sep 2023, 22:02 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / As you're reading this a cool new movie is doing the rounds in cinemas across the world: Gran Turismo. The Neill Blomkamp-directed flick tells the tale of how a video gamer briefly becomes one of the most-talked-about names in motorsports. ...
Harley-Davidson Engines: Full Timeline and History (1903-2023)
2 Sep 2023, 07:12 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / For exactly 120 years human society has had an undeniably important companion as it moves forward through time: Harley-Davidson. In the 12 decades that have passed since its inception, the American company has grown far beyond the limits of a busin...
1967 Ford Mustang Helleanor Is the Drag Monster All Barn Finds Dream to Become
1 Sep 2023, 23:18 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Eleanor is one of the most famous car nicknames ever. It was used for the first time all the way back in 1974, when the H. B. Halick "Gone in 60 Seconds" movie was released, and it first referred to a 1971 Ford Mustang. It then switch...
Harley-Davidson Royal Power Plays the Daring Green Card and Nails It
1 Sep 2023, 22:20 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / When I say the word royalty, what's the first color that comes to mind? My guess is either red, on account of the many royal garments and symbols that use it, or blue, on account of royalty's famous blue blood. And I'm also guessing ...
HIMARS-Fired Lockheed Rocket Doubles the Range of America's Mighty Punch
1 Sep 2023, 15:41 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The war still waging over in Ukraine has made a lot of new things clear for military commanders around the world, but it also confirmed long-known facts about warfare. Like how much of a difference the ability to strike from afar can make on the ba...
Sophia Loren's 1960 Rolls-Royce Silver Cloud II Is Now a Brazen EV Conversion
1 Sep 2023, 14:52 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / If there is one thing I find particularly exciting about this whole electric vehicle revolution it's the increasing importance batteries and electric motors seem to have in the custom and bespoke industries. Technically speaking it's a...
New Bentley Batur Sound System Has the Price of a Brand-New American Muscle Car
1 Sep 2023, 13:58 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / For those of us who make a decent living a $30,000-something brand-new car is not out of reach. For instance, if you're an American with a passion for muscle cars, that much easily lands you one of three iconic muscle cars: the Chevrolet Camar...
Harley-Davidson No Limit Has All It Takes to Be a Visual Overload
1 Sep 2023, 13:06 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / You all know Harley-Davidson's Breakout, that breed of Softail that's been making the rounds since the early 2010s with quite an appreciable success. It's that sleek cruiser usually drowned in chrome that at the moment is selling off...
Harley-Davidson Challenger Is Pure Muscle on Two-Wheels, Made for World Champion
31 Aug 2023, 13:06 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / For the ones with a passion for wheeled machines, the name Challenger can stand for only one thing: a muscle car made by Dodge that has been wowing onlookers and setting strip records ever since its inception in the early 1970s. For the automobi...
1969 Chevy Camaro Touched by Foose Is Not as Cool as Believed, Someone Still Got It
31 Aug 2023, 12:23 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / We reached the end of our journey when it comes to discovering what cars scored the most or failed spectacularly during the month's largest auction in America. And we do so by looking at how one of the most appealing of the cars on the Montere...
1954 Chevrolet Shadow Is the Freshest Spin on a 69-Year-Old Truck
31 Aug 2023, 10:17 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Ah, the pickup trucks of the 1950s... Born into this world with a specific destiny in mind, they lived their lives in the shadows back in the day, hauling people and cargo and generally being treated like unworthy possessions. But boy, did their de...
Countdown Begins for Unprecedented Asteroid Sample Landing in the Utah Desert
31 Aug 2023, 08:26 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / It's been a long time coming, but we are now less than four weeks away from an unprecedented moment in human history: the landing of a piece of a very distant asteroid somewhere in the Utah desert. That's right, landing. It was in 2016...