Many engine builders pursued customers in both the automotive and aviation fields, Lycoming perhaps the best known among them. It wasn’t for lack of trying that Glenn Curtiss is omitted from that list today, as we see in Keith Marvin’s story in SIA #76, August 1983, recording Curtiss’s efforts to place the OX-5 V-8 in […]

Don’t ask me why, but I’ve noticed that when people decide to convert a gasoline-powered vehicle into an EV, they often choose very offbeat vehicles, either kit cars or low-production cars. That’s why it doesn’t surprise me much that somebody chose this 1980 Bernardi for sale on Hemmings.com as the basis for an EV conversion. […]

* Of all the odd engine configurations out there, I would have never expected to see a V-5, let alone a V-5 diesel built by Oldsmobile, but such a thing does exist in the Olds Museum in Lansing, Michigan, as TurboBrick pointed out in the comments to a recent Hooniverse post.

* Just stumbled across this […]