Every now and then, a project comes along that blends equal parts genius, elbow grease, and unfortunate parking lot mishap—and this Mazda B3000 fits the bill like a forged piston in a junkyard 5.3. What started life as a humble compact pickup now hides a rebuilt LS under the hood, complete with a Truck Norris […]
This next car comes as a tip from Matt who writes: Here is a pretty sweet looking v8 swapped 240. Looks pretty solid and probably a lot of fun. This 1991 Volvo 240 GL isn’t trying to sneak past anyone—it’s slammed, fog-lit, and rolling on Watanabes with a 4.8L LS swap barking through an automatic […]
Ah yes, the classic air-cooled 911—a symbol of precision German engineering, rear-engine purity, and delicate performance balance… so naturally, someone stuffed a Chevy 350 small block into the back and airbrushed a nekkid lady across the hood. This 1970 Porsche 911T, now proudly running an American V8 and wearing a custom SoCal mural straight out […]
Somewhere deep in Modesto, a British roadster was subjected to an American V8 transformation—and the result is this blood-red 1960 Austin Healey Sprite, now stuffed with a 350ci small-block Chevy. It’s got all the visual aggression of a mid-’60s drag strip monster: a towering hood snorkus that could swallow a pigeon, fat Hoosier slicks out […]
At first glance, it’s just another forest green Volvo 240 wagon—the kind your high school English teacher drove while quoting Thoreau. But look a little closer (or goose the throttle) and you’ll realize this one’s packing a Chevy 350 V8 and a 700R4 slushbox under the hood, transforming this Swedish longroof into a full-blown American […]
The nice thing about a classic G-Body is that when you tell someone that you did a “frame-off” restoration, you can show the receipts. Most modern cars have a single unibody, but with this G-body, you can show the frame separated from the chassis with a Corvette LT1 V8 in place of whatever carbureted pile […]
The Volvo 122S Amazon (badged as the 120-series outside of Sweden) is a 50s-styled classic Volvo that makes a compelling case for a starter classic due to its simple ruggedness and basic reliability. Today’s example has ditched the simple B-series 4-cylinder for an equally simple small block Chevy V8 mated to a TH350 slushbox and […]
When Porsche introduced their mid-engine Boxster in the late 1990s they needed to save costs to keep the price competitive. One of the interesting choices in components for the rear-engine Boxster was the use of a Getrag 5-speed transaxle that was shared with the Audi A4 and Volkswagen Passat, which both used a longitudinal front-engine […]
The Geo Tracker was a small 4X4 that was born of a joint venture between GM and Suzuki. Oddly enough, it was GM of Canada who pushed this thing through to development and the first versions were built in a Canadian GM plant in Ingersoll, Ontario. The Tracker was a proper body-on-frame front-engine rear-wheel-drive mini […]
The Mazda RX-8 left the factory with a rotary engine known as the Renesis 13B-MSP (multi-side port) engine that displaces 1.3 liters but is effectively a 2.6-liter engine due to the quasi-two-stroke nature of the Wankel. Unfortunately, the original engines are expensive to maintain (or replace), so many are converted into exposed tunnel ram intake […]