If you don’t know what a Detroit Diesel 8V-92TA is…well…don’t worry, because I’m going to explain it to you. Most modern Class-8 trucks are powered by big inline-6 turbo diesel engines, but there was a time when you could get a V8. And you could get a two-stroke diesel V8. Yeah. With a turbocharger and […]
This next car comes as a tip from Johnny Bouncewell who writes; This Merc is so classy it parks on an oriental rug…or wait, if I read between the lines on this ad, it really sounds like 2 dudes had to bail on this project. Also, why does this thing have a mattress toupée? Find […]
This next car comes as a tip from Rock On who writes that it could be the “perfect winter beater!” Frankly, I find that suggestion to be insulting to such a low mile incredible piece of 90s GM engineering. This car belongs in a museum or in a collector’s garage. MMmkay, I just looked at […]
Chevrolet launched the Vega in 1970 with design from GM chief stylist Bill Mitchell and GM thought they had an ace up their sleeve. The lightweight Vega had a number of interesting engines in development, including an inline-4 with alloy overhead cam setup, a Wankel rotary engine, and an all-alloy V8. The bean counters pulled […]
Another day, another Nissan Pike car (Pao, S-Cargo, Figaro, Be-1, K10-Micra). These things were never officially imported into the USofA, but I think they are as common as Corollas on craigslist. Or maybe…the 100 or so that have been imported are ALWAYS for sale because owning one is not as much fun as buying one. […]
When this next car came into the DT tips inbox, I had a sense of deja hooptie. We’ve featured this car before when it was listed on craigslist for $25k asking…but it looks nicer than in the previous photos, when it was offered in an estate sale by Halstead’s Helping Hands Estate Sales. It looks […]
The BMW 2002 shouldn’t need much of an introduction to any car guy (or gal), but if you’ve been living under a rock — let me explain. German styling, good reliability, good handling, rugged 4-cylinder engine, daily driveable classic…all for a decent price. Today’s 2002 is on the high end of the price we’d like […]
If you don’t immediately smile when you see this next car…then I don’t know what is wrong with you. The full sized Galaxie with 2-doors was an acceptable family car back in the late 60s early 70s, which would surprise all of the crossover buying kids these days who immediately step up to a minivan […]
The facebreak people had some DNS related issues yesterday that lead to some downtime for its captive audience of mindless automaton baby boomers and I think I discovered the source. This Minica Toppo was too much for its antiquated servers and got caught in a maelstrom of conflicting anti-spam anti-fake-news anit-bot software that caused a […]
Back in the 1990s if you wanted a fast front-wheel-drive car to race with your buddies, it was best to avoid popular choices like the Honda CRX, Integra, or a watercooled VeeDub. Instead, you needed to steal your parents keys to their Nissan Maxima. The 3rd generation Maxima had a VE30DE V6 that pushed a […]