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Around 2016, Hernandez changed his approach, focusing more on repairs. More specifically, he began to buy high-mileage used and vintage iron, erring toward the late-model, high-repair-cost stuff most ...

Spark plug wires are plugged into the distributor cap according to the firing order of the engine and the direction of the distributor’s rotation. This ’55 Chevy small-block has a firing order of ...

Fast out of the box and easy to modify, in the late 1980s, the 5.0 Fox-body Mustang was the king of cheap speed at drag strips and high school parking lots alike. But there was one fast Fox with a ...

Without Erwin George “Cannon Ball” Baker, it’s likely that nothing in the rest of this story would have ever happened. Baker, who passed away in 1960 at the age of 78, defied the odds by dying of a ...

Often held on weeknights so drivers could still compete in weekend points races at their home track, the show-up-and-win format was tailor-made for Bloomquist. Between 1994 and 2018, he won at least ...

Editor’s Note: The 29th annual Amelia Island Concours d’Elegance, held last March on Amelia Island, Florida, named Rick Hendrick its 2024 honoree. As you likely know, Hendrick is the owner of the ...

Welcome to a brief series that charts the evolution and features of the modern GM small-block. We begin with a quick backstory and then hop into the details of the most ubiquitous V-8 engine family of ...

Yet as much as the flathead spawned hot-rodding, hot-rodding undoubtedly helped shape the flathead and, more broadly, the all-American obsession with horsepower that still rules today. Contrary to the ...

Other notable crackdowns include one in late 2018, when the Georgia Department of Revenue compiled a list of cars that had a Peach Pass (Georgia’s toll road tag) but also had Montana registrations, ...

The cycles of new car models seem to get shorter every year. Over the last several decades, the average model cycle has gone from about eight years to four. With that in mind, it seems almost ...