The Chrysler Turbine Car

Posted on Apr 22, 2014 in Antique | Comments Off on The Chrysler Turbine Car

One of my favorite cars of the “future” was the Chrysler Turbine car, produced in 1963. 55 units were built as a test of gas turbine engines, and now only two remain in private hands. Jay Leno is one of the lucky few, and he recently created a video showing the car and its history. The video is about 25 miutes long, but it is an excellent view. LINK: Jay Leno’s...

Jamming Cell Phones in Cars: “I think it will be done,” says Ray LaHood

Posted on Apr 18, 2014 in Safety | 1 comment

The U.S. Secretary of Transportation has been on the warpath about cell phone use, particularly texting, in cars, which has killed some 16,000 people in 6 years in the U.S. The department has a new video campaign with heart-rending stories of young people who have been killed in distracted driving incidents. In an interview last Thursday, responding to a...

Promising Scuderi Engine Ignites Interest With Split-Cycle

Posted on Apr 15, 2014 in Technology | 2 comments

Seeing our current motoring reality, many would suggest that the modern automobile is failing to reflect our progressive use of technology. For about 90 years, the gasoline-powered internal combustion engine has remained predominant to driving, remaining to its basic four-stroke operating principles. Through time, several movements were made to reformulate the...

Now a Retrospective Look Eight Months Later

Posted on Apr 13, 2014 in Editorials | 2 comments

When I was but a tyke, my parents would give me extremely vague, outlandish and downright wrong clues as to what sat under the Christmas tree for me every year. My mom and dad, being ever clever (or at least thinking they were), would disguise my gifts with a Matryoshka doll arrangement of boxes, fill those boxes with pieces of wood or other noisy-when-shaken...

My hit-and-miss experiences with parts cars

Posted on Apr 2, 2014 in Featured | 1 comment

Parts car availability seems to be shuffling toward the realm of dinosaurs, VCR repairmen, desktop computers and hula-hoops, thanks mostly to the fact that with collector car prices being what they are, every candidate is now viewed as restorable. Some parts cars may be good enough to save; others, however, may require the replacement of 97 percent of their...