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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 [...]