I had always assumed that the Fordillacs of hot rodding lore were all built with Cadillac’s groundbreaking OHV V-8 engine, not the Cadillac flathead V-8 engine, which is what appears in this 1949 Ford for sale on Hemmings.com. Then again, it’s not as if Frick and his partners built these as production-line automobiles; they were […]
Oh look, it’s EcoMotors International, some new greenie-car startup company with a “revolutionary” engine design. I bet it’ll save all the polar bears while running on a blend of hemp oil, wildflowers and moonbeams. Ha! Just what flavor of hippie vegetarian baloney is this? And what automotive genius is running this company? Let me guess: […]
I’ve had this picture hanging around in my Inbox for a while, courtesy Geoff Hacker, and I thought today, the anniversary of Henry Ford’s patent (2,269,451) for a method of producing a plastic-bodied car, would be as good a time as any to post it. We won’t get into the details of the car itself, […]