Traco Engineering may not have ever been a household name – Jim Travers and Frank Coon seemed to prefer working behind the scenes, building engines for major race teams rather than for the general public. Still, they’re a significant duo in American high-performance history, enough to warrant a Hot Rod Hero article on them in […]

Where in part 1 of his story, Roy Ames outlined the various small-potatoes, back-of-the-magazine ways in which hucksters tried to sell fuel-saving devices, in part 2, from SIA #65, October 1981, Ames goes after the more well-known fuel-saving schemes, including Louis Enricht, the Fish carburetor and the Pogue carburetor. Under Ames’s analysis, only the latter […]

* I could pull Mack military trucks from Crismon all day long, but for those of you with such an interest, BigLorryBlog has already done some legwork, and not just on Macks built for the U.S. Military, such as the V-8-powered Moroccan Army F900 above.

* Here in the States, the DeTomaso name conjures up images […]