Over the last few years, the dwindling amounts of ZDDP in off-the-shelf engine oils have sent many collector-car enthusiasts scrambling for alternatives that include enough zinc to keep their engines with flat-tappet camshafts running. Diesel oil worked for a while, and we even heard some accounts of guys crushing up tablets of raw zinc to […]

Is it just us, or are wildly good restorations of De Sotos from the 1950s coming into serious vogue? We just saw a whole bunch of them at the Mecum Auction in Indianapolis, and now, here’s this shocker that’s been consigned to Leake’s forthcoming sale in Tulsa, Oklahoma, set for June 10-12. Specifically, it’s a […]

While the 100th anniversary Indy 500 is come and gone, it’s never too late for an Indy-related photo. We recently came across this press photo snapped by Chicago Today photographer Frank Hanes of the most infamous Indy 500 pace car, the Dodge Challenger used in 1971, at the moment it crashed into the photographers’ stand […]