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 […]
* The Smithsonian wants your help in deciding which two of its cars it should bring out of storage to display in the National Museum of American History by voting for one of eight historically significant cars. A Tucker (would that be #1039?) is one of the eight. Voting lasts through January 11. (via) * […]
Smithsonian‘s excellent Flickr feed has become quite topical, most recently posting a brief series of great images of US Mail vehicles in adverse conditions as part of a much longer winter theme. There are only five of postal vehicles up now, so to make it interesting I’m going to include their captions but leave the […]