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 […]

Another year has come and gone for the Northeast’s largest multi-marque import specialty show, the Carlisle Import and Kit Nationals, which were held from Friday, May 20 through Sunday the 22nd. The featured country for 2011 was France, so there was an excellent turn-out of French delicacies, both on the show field and in Building […]