SEMA BATTLE OF THE BUILDERS PROJECT The following is a testimonial offered by this first-time entrant into the SEAM Battle of the Builders. Modern DriveLine is impressed with Thomas’s skill & the quality of this 1967 GT350. MDL we’re just a small part of this beautiful machine and wanted to feature this great build. Below…
You’ll Get Better Fuel Economy While modern automatics are more fuel-efficient today than they were even 10 years ago, they still can’t compensate for human intuition. A new automatic transmission might have a lock-up torque converter and 8 speeds, but it can’t see the terrain or understand what…
A Little History of the Sunbeam Tiger The Sunbeam Tiger is a high-performance V8 version of the British Rootes Group’s Sunbeam Alpine roadster, designed in part by American car designer and racing driver Carroll Shelby and produced from 1964 until 1967. Shelby had carried out a similar V8 conversion on the AC Cobra, and hoped to be offered the contract to produce the…
The Kansas City Twister Special version, had either the 429 Cobra Jet or the Super Cobra Jet V8 engine producing 360 to 370 hp.
Not a run-of-the-mill special edition, serious performance upgrades that make it stand head & shoulders above others.
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The Professionals at V8 Speed & Resto craft another beautiful classic ’69 Chevelle muscle car
1966 Oldsmobile 442 W-30 In 1966 Oldsmobile upgraded the engine option for the 442 to a 400-cubic-inch V-8 with three two-barrel carburetors and introduced its first W-30 package. The standard 442, with a single four-barrel, was rated 350 hp. With tri-power induction, that rating jumped to 360 hp, which matched the GTO, and it pegged…
1965 Buick Riviera Gran Sport Some consider the first Buick Riviera, built from 1963 to 1965, to be the best-looking car General Motors has ever produced. And in the design’s final year it was perfected with hidden headlights and the availability of Buick’s first high-performance Gran Sport package—option code A9. Under the hood was a…
American Motor Company, or AMC, is one of those brands that came along, had a series of hit cars, and then faded away over the decades. The company did not have ties to any of the established three American manufacturers (though by the 1980s it was owned by Renault, who subsequently sold the brand to…