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 […]
If I had a business renting out vehicles to movie studios, I could probably make a mint off of a car like this 1924 Flint touring – it’s exactly the kind of typical 1920s car that seems to populate every movie from that era. Throw in a few weddings every summer and I bet I […]
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…