So, the boss has asked us to pick our favorite engine swap. As fate would have it, I have a friend who knows a thing or two about swapping… and the odd thing is that he was just a toddler in the ’70’s! Matt “Tinman” Johnston is that rare and valuable combination: good friend and [...]
There’s a small secret society of Porsche fans who assemble as the R Gruppe. They take early ‘70s long hood 911s and hot rod them to a loose set of rules vaguely guided by a handbook published by Porsche around 1970 outlining “Sports Purpose” mods to set the cars up for racing and rally. The [...]
Hey all you people with your fancy sports cars and uber-sedans as your keeper cars — how are you going to find parts for those exotic, expensive whips in 20-30 years? Exactly — eBay China. That’s why I’m going with my very own car — the current Volkswagen GTI! This car likely represents the end of the line [...]
Like the RS4 on my shortlist, the M Coupe is the last of a breed. As I’ve mentioned before, I owned the gonzo skunkwerken bred(van!) Z3 M Coupe (1999) and still hanker after it. I hankered so much that I actually picked up a 2007 Z4 M Coupe in January of this year on a [...]
I suffer from automotive ADD. I’ve lost count of how many cars I’ve bought and sold in my 24 years as a driver. I’ve rarely kept a car for a year and more often than not traded out earlier. Within that long list there were three cars that I regret letting go. The first wouldn’t [...]
Pickle of a question. Since Friday I’ve been going over all the cars I’ve driven recently (and that are currently on sale) trying to figure out which one I wouldn’t mind being straddled with forever. And it has been one helluva tough decision. But actually, the Bullitt is such a fantastic car that it wasn’t [...]
Yesterday saw Zach’s answer to our first ever QFTW. You remember — the one where we asked what car is currently on sale that you would buy and hang onto for the next 30 years? If not more? And Zach answered pretty wisely — the Caddy CTS-V. Hard to argue with 500+ hp four-doors. Unless [...]
On Friday we posed our first Question for the Weekend (aka QFTW) asking what new car that’s on sale now would you buy and keep for the next 30 years — or more? Putting our money where our big fat mouths are, we’re going to answer the question for you. Fist to act, Zach Bowman. [...]
I was chatting with our buddy Tanner Foust the other day and he told me that he’d just bought a used 1976 Porsche 912E. As an early Porsche nut, I was somewhat surprised as IMHO there probably isn’t a less interesting variant of Porsche’s eternal rear engine line. The early longhood 912s of the late [...]
