Two-cylinders. One 2-71 GMC roots blower. A single Hilborn fuel injector. One magneto. Some nitromethane, and a dynamometer. The resulting 257-horsepower engine shown here was created by taking an already halved Pontiac Tempest four-cylinder engine and halving it again. The cylinder head and block were sealed off by aluminum plates after their appointment with the […]
With news that the Bahamas Speed Week is being revived later this year, it’s just a little bit appropriate that we run David Brownell’s account on the first such Bahamas Speed Week revival, from SIA #86, April 1985. Hopefully the same cali…
There are two new auctions in Scottsdale next month, one brand new from Scottsdale International Auto Museum, one from the more established Motoexotica. With Kruse gone and ICA scheduling no 2011 auctions, it’s really a wash in terms of the number of sales. Like Kruse and ICA, neither SIA Museum nor Motoexotica are trying to […]