Motoring Weekly seems to have a habit of finding Canada’s “first” supercar - which suggests to me that all the developers of these cars do not know much about their own local industry! Over the past couple of months we have written about the MCV CH4 and the De Macross GT1, both of which claimed the title of being first. Here’s another: the HTT Plethore, and like the other two, … [Read more...]
Flyin Miata
Ever since the car was invented, people have wanted to go faster and as engineers started to figure out ways to make cars more powerful and therefore faster, others have followed a tried and true method: take a lightweight car - typically a two seater, remove the original engine and shoehorn in a bigger one and that's usually a V8! I would say that the idea really took off … [Read more...]
Cranking
This article may not be suitable for reading at work! It is about a very odd fetish and a man who clearly enjoys it. Early last year, a 27 year old man from Michigan was arrested after taking several vehicles from a General Motors dealer and damaging four of them. He was also accused of “cranking” in another vehicle. This piqued my interest as I had never heard of … [Read more...]
Gordon-Keeble
This week for this article I am going to talk about a rare tortoise! The Gordon-Keeble was a limited life high performance 2+2 developed and manufactured in Britain during the 1960s. It had a limited life due to cash flow problems that meant that the company was liquidated before production and sales really took off. The Gordon-Keeble was the brainchild of John Gordon and Jim … [Read more...]
Louis Chevrolet
The name Chevrolet is synonymous with the auto industry - it conjures up images of the 1950s and 1960s. No one can imagine a post-war world without Chevrolet. The man behind the marque was not so well remembered. Louis Chevrolet was born on Christmas Day 1878 in Switzerland and as a young boy his parents moved to Burgundy in France. This is where his interest in mechanics … [Read more...]