Somewhere between a Viccup and a late-night welding experiment gone gloriously sideways, this automotive chimera takes the term body swap to its absolute breaking point. What you are looking at is a 1967–72 Chevy C10 cab and bed precariously perched atop the sophisticated chassis of a R230 generation Mercedes-Benz SL500, complete with a luxury interior […]
The R129 generation of Mercedes-Benz SL-Class roadster was a magnificent piece of automotive engineering when it was first released into the wild for the 1988 model year. The base chassis was a shortened W124 chassis, but it featured a variety of advanced features like active electronically controlled dampers, a pop-up roll bar, and seat belts […]
If you’ve got an older car where the paint is starting to fade or the clearcoat is starting to peel, you’ve got a few options. You could ignore it, or slap some vinyl over it, plasti-dip it, or pay top dollar for new paint…OR you can get a “famous” artist to slap some paint all […]
As winter starts to rear its ugly head most of this great country (USA…USA), the concept of a convertible might be the last thing on your mind, but it is actually the best time to buy a convertible if you want the best price. Find something interesting/fun with a removable top for less than $5k. […]
Who doesn’t love a good story about “stickin it to the man,” right? Unless you are the man, in which case you’ll have loads of money to cry yourself to sleep with…anyway, I can’t think of a better way to “stick it to the man” than to buy something for $10k that he paid almost […]
The Mercedes 500 series has been around in some sort of way since the 1970’s. These were premium cars with big boy V8 engines. Today’s piece covers car from as old as 1991 to as new as 2003 in the E, SL, CL, and SEC class of cars. Generally speaking, these Benzes suffer from pretty […]
It is Wednesday, which means time for the Mid Week Match-Up, but it is also summer, so combine the two and you get — the best cars for driving around in the summer for less than $10k. There are two things you need in a good summer car — convertible top, functioning AC, power, style….whoa, that’s […]
Harvey Crane Jr was the man behind the company known as Crane Cams that has been building and selling custom cams since 1953. Crane pass away in 2013, but not before being inducted into the SEMA Hall of Fame, East Coast Drag Racing Hall of Fame, and doing more for the automotive valve than just […]