I’ve always lamented the lack of belt-drive automobiles from major manufacturers, but the bigger crime is the lack of V-twin power. You can get cars with miserable 3-cylinders or all manner of 4-bangers, but V-twins are only available in motorcycles…until now. Find this 1991 Geo Metro with Harley Power offered for $3,200 here on eBay buy-it-now or make-offer […]
The typical vintage T-Bucket replica goes like this; off-the-shelf tube axle front end kit, bucket of fiberglass, Ford 9-inch rear end, TH350 slushbox, Chevy 350 small bloc—whoa…who put that Chebby part in my Ford? Thems’ fightin’ words. The only non Ford power I’ll put in a T-Bucket is something from a long-time Ford partner…like Lincoln, […]
There is not much overlap between the young hipster Jeep rock-crawl crowd and the aging hippie Harley-Davidson cruisers, with the exception of a shared distaste for well groomed facial hair. The biggest overlap is on the slow lane in the highway, where they trailer their custom built vehicles to ride/drive them for a few hundred […]
The California vehicle code is a strange and complex beast. There are all sorts of arcane rules related to engine swaps that require “factory” location of original catalyst that make swapping that LS1 into car XYZ a royal pain. However, there are a few loopholes that Cali gear-heads have been known to take advantage of. […]