Jaguar Hot Rod British American Hybrid

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The Toyota Prius doesn’t do much for me but this is a hybrid I could see in my garage, it’s a 69 Jaguar E Type powered by a Ford 289 V8. It’s a complete resto mod, the car looks great being so British yet so American. Years ago I had a Series 3 E Type, [...]

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Vintage Country Cars Are Getting Noticed

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About this time of year, everyone starts to think about those outdoor Autumn chores, hauling firewood, running to the hardware store or picking up a few things at the cider mill. Sure, a lot of folks thinking that way never hauled a load of firewood in their entire lives, but if they did, they know [...]

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Cheetah Continuation Project Shuts DownSOME Tooling and Rights Up For Sale – UPDATED

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It looks like the Cheetah continuation project, started in 2007 by BTM of Arizona, is closing its doors. Everything is up for sale, all of the tooling and rights, a couple of bodies, numerous parts, everything someone will need to pick up where BTM left off. The Cheetah, was a tube frame race car powered [...]

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Drive American Muscle? Buy American Made Parts

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When you fire up that vintage Mustang or Camaro, do you ever think about where it came from? Do you even briefly remember the long decades of American auto industrial dominance? Slide behind the wheel of your Plymouth GTX and look out over the hood and imagine the world of the late 1960s. Did you [...]

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Corvair 95 Rampside Pickup

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When most people think of the Corvair, it’s usually the car they remember. Some of us, especially if we were around at the time, remember the range of trucks produced in the early 1960s under the Corvair name as well, both vans and pickups. The most unique of the group was the Corvair 95 Rampside [...]

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Pratt and Miller Builds a 62 Plymouth Hemi Valiant

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Last March, I had the opportunity to attend the unveiling of the Motus MST at Pratt and Miller Engineering. Pratt and Miller, as most of you know, are behind the tremendous success of the GM Corvette racing team among many other engineering accomplishments. While looking around their operations before the bike was rolled out, I [...]

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