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The first Pontiac V8 lasted only one year. Out in 1932, it was the same 251-cid V8 used in Pontiac's almost-dead parent make, Oakland, during 1930 and 1931. The 85-hp [...]

Gene Ripp of Man Cave Creations has a unique way of getting rid of vintage engine parts. Ripp turns them into coffee tables or other types of furniture, like the [...]

Oldsmobile V8s can be grouped into five 'generations.' The company produced its first V8--an L-head design--in the years 1916-1923. The year 1949 marked the return of Oldsmobile V8s with the [...]

The readers of Engine Builder include thousands of skilled machinists who are also car enthusiasts. Over the years, there have been countless stories printed in this magazine about vintage cars. [...]

A restoration shop owner we know sends his engines out to professional rebuilders. There are two engines sitting in his shop right now--a six and an eight. Both were rebuilt [...]

Companies like the Sun Electric Corp., of Crystal Lake, IL, Snap-On Corp. of Kenosha, WI, and Allen Test Products of Melville, NY, developed equipment to test automobile components and analyze [...]

The rich and diverse history of automobiles imported into the United States started before World War II with European-built luxury cars and sports cars that wealthy Americans brought here. After [...]

Have you heard the one about the hot rodder who walks into the engine shop and asks for exhaust headers for a 1928 Hudson he wants to race on the [...]

Acrude-looking '53 Studebaker drag racing car from Iowa has its share of rust, dings, dents and paint flaws, but under its hood is a one-of-a-kind Pontiac intake manifold that has [...]

Don't throw those old Mustang parts away. That's what Bob Perkins of Perkins Restoration (www.perkinsrestoration. com) in Juneau, WI told many Ford dealers back in the 1970s. Perkins somehow came [...]

If you pick up a copy of Bill Weertman's 2007 book Chrysler Engines 1922-1998 and turn to page 345, you'll find mention of an SAE paper that Neil Newman authored [...]

Bruce G. Argetsinger of Branford, CT, is a tool and die maker who found a niche manufacturing racing engine parts for vintage Harley and Indian motorcycles. His motivation for manufacturing [...]

There probably a million ways to dress-up a classic show car's engine. You can add colorful spark plug wires to any vintage motor. You can install Chevy Orange logo valve [...]

The 1953-1964 Buick 'Nailhead' V8 engine is a different kind of animal. These engines have a firing order that varies from that of most other GM V8s. The nailhead has [...]

Okie Allen is a veteran firefighter and assistant chief of Township Fire Department, Inc., in Eau Claire, WI. He is also a member of the Chippewa Valley Chapter of SPAAMFAA. [...]

Engine builders who work on older collector cars are always interested in sources of vintage radiators--after all, you can't run a liquid-cooled engine for any length of time without a [...]

The list of reclaimed bare engine blocks on the Kenmonth Engine Company website (www.danamotorssac.com) is enough to warm the heart of any vintage vehicle collector. There's an AMC 401-cid big-block [...]

Mid America Motorworks' 'MY Garage' museum at the company's corporate campus in Effingham, IL, is changing. Today, this interesting collection showcases more engines and fewer cars than it used to [...]

When Roy Richter wrote, 'Here it is' on the inside cover of his 1949 Bell Auto Parts Catalog, he probably didn't realize what he started. He said it was, 'the [...]

Do people collect dragsters? You bet they do. In fact, The Automobile Gallery (www.TheAutomobileGallery.org) in downtown Green Bay, WI, is a collection of cars that visitors can view as works [...]

One of many highlights in the Ford booth at the 107th Chicago Auto Show was a large layout of the pieces that make up the first-ever Ford three-cylinder EcoBoost engine. [...]

Pontiac Excitement! used to be a company slogan and Pontiac engines caused a lot of the hubbub. The first Pontiac in 1926 was called the Chief of the Sixes. It [...]

Each year, in early July, some five-dozen racing relics come thundering out of the pages of history books to circle the famous one-mile long track at Milwaukee's Wisconsin State Fairgrounds. [...]

A piece of cardboard and a felt pen can help you keep the parts you take off an old engine properly organized. Being organized is a big part of restoring [...]

The Triumph TR6 uses an overhead-valve inline six that has lots of power, but is also known for thrust washer wear that causes crankshaft movement. The original thrust bearings on [...]