UPDATE: Kaz Grala now has a ride this season with Richard Childress, so no problems with having to scrounge for a ragdoll car from now on.

Lately I’ve been trying to solve an automotive thought experiment:
* Part 1: What would have been the minimal changes needed for the C111-Ⅱ to be street-legal in the U.S. in the middle 1970s (presuming either a reliable rotary engine got developed or M-B just fitted it with an existing production engine)?
* Part 2: What…

“There is a reason why they call it ‘bullet-resistant’ glass rather than ‘bullet-proof’. A big enough bullet can go through anything.”—Michael Westen on Burn Notice

The KnoxNews Auto Show is this weekend and I think you boys just saved me ten bucks I don’t really have.

From what I’d read about Ranger, the idea was to expand the number of dealers, especially in Africa.

How did that commercial go? All supervillains drive JAGUARS?

I looked up the engine on Wikipedia. This particular engine wasn’t successful enough to be put into production.  It was the also-ran in the DoD competion that Allison won for the Bell Kiowa/Jet Ranger.

Does Saleen have an alibi? By your account, this ISN’T The first time for them!

SOLD for $45,000 following an intense bidding duel.

Two days left and it’s at $14,000.

I would never have the money for that in a million years. I’d be tempted to submit that for PowerNation TV as a “Search & Restore” variety project and make those jokers in Nashville do all the work rebuilding it.

Useless Fact: A kilogram of propane has the same explosive force as THIRTY sticks of dynamite.

We Deliver For YOU! *sound effect of mailbox door slamming shut*

I hope the Mustang winds up with an SVRA team. It’ll be eligible for Group 10 in a few years...where it can throw down against Chevelles, Roadrunners, and Cutlass Supremes!

It’s an arguable premise that all the best commercials for the Chevy Camaro over the decades have featured woman drivers. Just one of many data.

Surprisingly, Warner Brothers—evidently at the nadir of their Spielbergian period which included Tiny Toons, Animaniacs, Taz-Mania and the DC Comics adaptations.

And HOW.

I saw a lot of these in Florida. They were usually bought by GM retirees who fled Michigan straight down Interstate 75 and once they were past Gainesville, they would beeline for the coast, take the first deal on a subdivision house they could find, and trade in whatever Chevy they came down in for a Buick. By the end…

I-40 runs through the area where I live. Every so often, I’d see a truck or two with a bunch of truck chassis units piggybacked atop one another going westbound.  Last month or the month before I was behind one in traffic and could see them up close--and they were marked with “UPS” in Sharpie on the dashboards.

I played a lot with the Configurator in previous model years.  But then again, my love/hate attitude with the current model doesn’t make me feel good about going back and playing more with it.