Porsche 542: The Car Studebaker Paid For And Never Built Studebaker wrote Porsche a check for roughly half a million 1952 dollars and got nothing out of it. Porsche used that money to build the assembly hall in Zuffenhausen that still turns out 911s today. The dying American company paid for the German company’s factory. … Read more
Hot Vapor: The Engine a Mechanic With No Degree Built in 1984 Was the HCCI Mazda Spent 35 More Years Trying to Mass-Produce Daytona Beach, Florida. 1984. Behind the back door of the workshop Smokey Yunick called The Best Damn Garage in Town, a Pontiac Fiero sits up on jack stands. Under the engine cover … Read more
DeLorean DMC-12: The Most Famous Car That Should Never Have Worked Every car guy in America has a DeLorean story. Maybe it’s the first time you saw one in a parking lot and did a double-take. Maybe it’s a childhood memory of Back to the Future that permanently lodged those gullwing doors somewhere in your … Read more
