Happy Halloween!! On today’s episode of What’ll Kill You Quicker, we’ve got a’66 Corvair that’s been de-clawed of its oversteer prone swing-axle suspension, but it is now sporting a front mounted V8 and enough custom shenanigans to keep you guessing the next failure mode for years…versus an ’84 Fiero that has 20 year newer safety […]
Motorcycles aren’t exactly the safest mode of transportation…even small contact can have huge consequences (which is why people in 4 wheel vehicles should always give them plenty of room), but at least the motorcycle is small and maneuverable. However, if you add a sidecar to a motorcycle, you still have the same crash exposure, but […]
Just because you could drive a vehicle on the street does not necessarily mean it is “street legal”…or does it? Does driving it around and having your local fuzz laugh at your mean it is legal or just tolerated? Street tolerated does have a good ring to it. Find this 2000 Dodge Neon-ish thing offered for $1195 […]
I have a friend who purchased and assembled a Caterham replica of a Lotus 7 for driving on US roads. For the sake of anonymity, I will call him Dwood, and this next post is dedicated to him. I won’t say how much Dwood spent on his Caterham, but I’d bet a Buick Roadmaster that it […]
What did that dude in the Fast and Furious say? I live my life one quarter of a mile at a time. 10 seconds later, I crash and then I’m free. At least that is what he would have said if this had been his whip. Find this 1989 Acura Death Kart offered for $2,000 near Anchorage, […]
Find this Collection of Formula Style Classic Single Seaters here on eBay offered for £14,995 ($18,332 USD…wow, what has happened to the pound?) located in Clitheroe, UK. Tip from Ian. Per the seller: 1996 Formula Classic racing car, this car has an unbelievable spec, and would cost circa £100k to build today. It was dreampt up […]
Campagna’s T-Rex is a three-wheeled plaything of the wealthy, littering the pages of DuPont Registry like cracker jack boxes after a parade. It’s loaded with performance and pure exotic prestige. Now you can have some of that performance with none of that prestige for the price of a Honda Odyssey under warranty. Find this Kawasaki-powered […]
The concept of the jet pack was originally developed in the 1920’s by a crazy Russian inventor named Aleksandr Fyodorovich Andreyev. Rumors exist of Nazi’s using functioning jet packs around WWII, but those are likely just rumors and the real first jet pack was created in 1958 by some American engineers. Science fiction quickly adopted […]