Archive for April, 2007
Automotive Design Summer Camp
30 April 2007If you’re a high school junior or senior or a college student and auto design sounds like your dream job, Lawrence Tech will be running a summer camp June 25th - 29th, 2007. Top camp designers may be able to win a scholarship to Lawrence Tech’s Transportation Design program.
There have been some pretty amazing designs [...]
Koenigsegg 1018 Horsepower E85 Supercar
19 April 2007Koenigsegg builds a pretty amazing line of cars but they have now gone green, too, with the E85 powered Koenigsegg Flower Power supercar. The power and performance numbers put this car in some very heady territory. The engine has been detuned slightly from their original 1100bhp+ and 885 foot pounds of torque to a [...]
Performance and Economy - High Mileage Horsepower
16 April 2007The SAE (Society of Automotive Engineers) 2007 World Congress will convene in Detroit this week with a theme of “Engineering for Global Sustainable Mobility — It’s Up to Us.” One of their tech sessions is titled “High Performance and Fuel Economy: Can We Have Both?”
Increasing fuel economy while maintaining or even increasing performance is something [...]
1967 Mustang Fastback Steel Replacement Body Shells
13 April 2007Late last year we told you 57 Chevy and 69 Camaro replacement steel bodies were available for your project car. The word at that time was the 67 Mustang was not yet ready but would be coming soon. Well, your wait is over, the 1967 Mustang steel replacement body shells are now available from Dynacorn [...]
Corvette 789
10 April 2007If you watch the custom cars on display at the auto shows you’ve already seen the Corvette 789. Doesn’t look like a Corvette, does it? Built on a C6 Corvette chassis, the carbon fiber body panels give you the best of three worlds, the grille and headlights of a 57 Chevy, a side view reminiscent [...]
Scale Model Ferrari 312PB
3 April 2007Model building has come a very long way over the years, what some of us remember from our childhood doesn’t begin to resemble what model builders accomplish these days. But even among today’s highly skilled craftsmen, a few build scale creations that simply leave you speechless.
Pierre Scerri of Italy has built what must be some [...]