This is why I keep telling people that drugs are bad. The Mazda MX-5 is a fantastic automobile that brings endless smiles and a relentlessly reliable driving experience; the Alfa Romeo Giulietta Spider is a hauntingly beautiful car with classic street cred, unmatched in its price range. Unfortunately, if you try to combine them into […]
“Drugs are bad, mmmkay.” — Counselor Mackey from South Park Elementary School. Kids, listen up. If someone ever offers you a jar full of blue pills or a bag full of something called “smack,” just say no I’ll think about it. The thing is, some day you might have a well tuned paint gun, an […]
The world of custom pickup trucks is indeed a strange place, sometimes scary, often daunting, but always fascinating. You need to really open your mind and take a Forrest Gump box of chocolate approach to opening up a custom truck ad…because you never know what yer gonna get. Find this 1956 Plymouth Custom El Camino […]
For better or worse, the Volkswagen Beetle is a motoring icon with a 65 year production life and 21 million units sold – unmatched in quantity by any other single vehicle platform. The original flat-4 is both the biggest asset (reliable, simple to fix, cheap) and problem (low on power, noisy, unrefined) with the original […]
The BMW E28 sedan is a well depreciated classic that should be on the short list of anyone looking for a proper handling 80s sedan for cheap. This 1980ish BMW 528e E28 Custom Convertible is offered for $500 in East Dayton, OH via craigslist. Tip from The Hack Mechanic who writes; You have to admire […]
The idea of creating a custom shooting brake 1st generation Mustang isn’t new, in fact many claim that Ford was working on its own station wagon version of the Mustang in the 1960s. Unfortunately, the creator of this Mustang shooting brake was probably shooting something else while in the design phase because it is an […]
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 […]
People did a lot of drugs in the ’70s. Folks took all kinds of stuff that and they didn’t always know what was in it or what the side effects would be. The guy who painted today’s feature probably thought he was skiing in the Alps and directing the Trans-Siberian Orchestra. In fact it was […]
Sometimes a craigslist ad pops up that provides such an interesting picture of the seller that the normal formula for reporting doesn’t apply. It doesn’t really matter that this is a 1970 Ford E-200 V8 Van for sale at $3500 in San Diego, CA via craigslist – because the photos are worth 1000 words…each. Hand […]
We’ve been critical of the Volkswagen Beetle in the past, mostly for its lackluster performance and tweedle-bleet exhaust note…no to mention sketchy handling characteristics…but that was before we found one with a Ford Mustang I-4 mounted out the back. Find this 1969 Volkswagen Beetle with Ford 2.3 liter inline-4 power for sale in Whittier, CA […]