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Fight High Prices at the Pumps With a Diesel Bike
A diesel dual-purpose bike? HDT is making it happen. I never thought I’d long for the days when gas was $2.50 a gallon. In an effort to save a few bucks, I take two wheels just about everywhere. My...
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Smokers
By now, you may have heard that Audi’s putting a version of their Le Mans V-12 Diesel into the Q7 truck (look closely and you can see where they rounded 5.9 liters up to six. Cummins turbo Diesel,...
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Diesel smoke, dangerous curves
Choppers that burn oil are nothing new, but this one is different: it’s supposed to burn oil… it’s a diesel! Let’s get one thing straight: Your resident motorcycle writer thinks choppers are as silly...
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Audi’s Le Mans-inspired diesel SUV
The diesel engine in Audi’s Q7 V12 TDI is good for 500hp and 738 pound-feet of torque Audi’s famed win of the 24 Hours of Le Mans races with the diesel-powered V-12 R10 TDI sports prototype raised...
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54-wheel-drive: The LeTourneau electric arctic land trains that put...
We have our friends at BigLorryBlog to thank for posting a vintage ad the other day that sent us seeking information about the longest vehicles of all time that ended up providing parts for the most...
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Hemmings Find of the Day – homebuilt diesel-powered motorcycle
I suppose this was inevitable. In the last several years, we’ve seen a giant increase in the popularity of diesel performance vehicles. Mostly in the guise of lifted late-model pickups out in rural...
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Hemmings Find of the Day – 1994 Ford Powerstroke concept truck
Dodge? Ranger? Escort? Homebuilt eye fryer? None of the above: Though it looks like it’s been through the hands of one capable Barris-type customizer and one 18-year-old kid with a Pep Boys charge...
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Four-Links – Olds V-5 diesel, bike junkyard, Pontiac dealership, earliest...
* Of all the odd engine configurations out there, I would have never expected to see a V-5, let alone a V-5 diesel built by Oldsmobile, but such a thing does exist in the Olds Museum in Lansing,...
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A date with yesterday
If you’ve been reading the section on trucking history that we’ve recently added to Hemmings Classic Car, then you’ve seen the camera craft of Joe Wanchura, who hails from Muncie, Indiana. It may come...
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The 40-MPG diesel-powered Auburns of Clessie Cummins
If nobody else, Clessie Cummins had proved to Americans the viability of the diesel engine. Familiar with the Indianapolis 500 since crewing for Ray Harroun in the first such race in 1911, he returned...
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Hemmings Find of the Day – 1965 Toyota FJ45
We’ve featured a few FJs before here on the Hemmings Find of the Day, but none quite like this 1965 Toyota FJ45 for sale on Hemmings.com, which has been treated to a number of upgrades, including a...
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Diesel Duesenberg to appear at Goodwood
Visitors to this year’s Goodwood Festival of Speed in England will get a rare chance to see Cummins’s No. 8 Duesenberg race car, which completed the Indianapolis 500 in 1931. In celebration of the...
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Diesels at Daytona
Diesel power grew in popularity at an exponential rate in the early to mid-1930s, buoyed by reports of astounding mileage and of the cheap price of diesel fuel versus gasoline – important factors when...
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Class of ’86 – BMW 524td
Image courtesy BMW When we did our mid-year review of the Class of 1986, it was rightfully pointed out that we hadn’t covered any BMWs in our survey of cars from the 1986 model year. We’ll rectify...
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Hemmings Find of the Day – 1979 Checker A12E
After the HFOD on the Rolls-grilled Ford station wagon the other day, one would think we’d seen enough of that sort of thing for a while, but then along came this 1979 Checker A12E for sale on...
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Connecticut Antique Machinery Association Power-Up to feature antique steam...
Wolverine Diesel Engine. Photo courtesy Connecticut Antique Machinery Association The Connecticut Antique Machinery Association’s 8th Annual Spring Power-Up is planned for May 5. Featuring antique...
View ArticleThis Day in History: Rudolf Diesel patents his engine
On February 23, 1892, Rudolf Diesel obtained German patent RP 67207, Arbeitsverfahren und Ausführungsart für Verbrennungsmaschinen (roughly, “Working process and realization method for internal...
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Four-Links – Leno and the Shark, Cummins at Indy, Sensuous Steel, street...
* Our Forgotten Fiberglass friend Geoff Hacker and his Renault-powered Shark fiberglass car appeared on Jay Leno’s Garage this week. Worth a view. * Cummins put together this neat timeline and history...
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SIA Flashback – Clessie Cummins and a Brief History of Diesel Automobiles
Here in the states, we just don’t associate diesels with automobiles. Trucks, yes, but never cars, and certainly not race cars. But Clessie Cummins kinda thought the other way: He had his first big...
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Soot stopper
Is this the Next Big Thing in oil filtration for diesel engines? photo courtesy SAE International Diesels are far cleaner now, but just because the thick cloud doesn’t blast you in the face anymore...
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Hemmings Find of the Day – 1982 Mercedes-Benz 300D
Mercedes-Benz diesels and turbodiesels generally have a bulletproof reputation for reliability, which is why the cars enjoy legions of fans around the world. It’s not uncommon to see 300 series diesel...
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Four-Links – auto shop Buick resto, 1929 L.A. auto show fire, auto advent,...
* We always enjoy hearing about high school auto shop classes taking on restoration projects, like the one at Bettendorf High School in Bettendorf, Iowa, focused on teacher Joe Phillips’s 1928 Buick,...
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Ransom Eli Olds and the supercharged two-stroke diesel
As truck manufacturers in the United States began to adopt diesel engines in the early to mid-1930s, partly thanks to the popularization efforts of Clessie Cummins, so did they also begin to realize...
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Four-Links – mini Mercedeseseses, Cummins-powered Packard, the year they...
* How can one man own every model Mercedes ever built? Easy: He owns every (scale) model Mercedes ever built. What’s more, Mihail Neagu has taken to photographing them all, Michael Paul Smith style,...
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Four-Links – Vette in a box, Cutlass resto nightmare, twin-turbo Fox-body,...
* There’s two sides to the old car hobby: Those who drive their cars and those who don’t. On the one hand, you want to take them out and show them off. On the other hand, there’s always the danger of...
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Hemmings Find of the Day – 1957 Flxible Starliner
It doesn’t seem that vintage motorhome enthusiasts have as much of a problem with repowering their old rigs as do car collectors: After all, the whole point of owning an old motorhome is to get it out...
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Hemmings Find of the Day – 1982 Mercedes-Benz 240D
Mercedes Benz built its iron-clad W123 series cars from 1975 to 1986, amassing a fleet worldwide just shy of 2.7 million vehicles. Most of those cars (about 2.4 million) were standard wheelbase sedans...
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Hemmings Find of the Day – 1979 Toyota FJ45 Land Cruiser
The Toyota FJ40 Land Cruiser was once a familiar sight on ranches, trails and parking lots across the United States, but its two-door pickup sibling, the FJ45, was less well known on these shores....
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Four-Links – Osborn’s Oldsmobile, Randy Lanier, Perkins Plymouths, Skyline swap
* If you think the rear end of John Osborn’s fiberglass-bodied Oldsmobile looked radical, check out the front end, as seen in the few photos Geoff Hacker of Forgotten Fiberglass and Sondre Kvipt of...
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Remember when Oldsmobile embraced the diesel engine?
The 1979 Oldsmobile diesel range. Photos courtesy ProductionCars.com. As the 1970s came to a close, automakers were faced with ever-stricter emission regulations on gasoline engines. Thinking outside...
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The good, the bad and the ugly: More on GM’s diesels of the late 1970s
Oldsmobile diesel V-8. Photo courtesy GM Media Archives. In Hamlet, William Shakespeare penned the line “there is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.” Though written over...
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Four-Links – the six-taillamp mid-year, Ford’s Fiero, Tehran collector car...
* Despite the quest for factory-perfect restorations among Corvette guys these days, you still occasionally see a six-taillamp mid-year Corvette pop up here and there. Mac’s Motor City Garage this...
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Hemmings Find of the Day – 1948 GMC TDH-3207
One thing we haven’t run across much of is collectors who like to have an old bus or two in their collection. We guess, like fire trucks, while the appreciation for them exists, the space and...
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Hemmings Find of the Day – 1936 Dodge pickup
Say what one will about the aesthetics of rat rods, at least this 1936 Dodge pickup for sale on Hemmings.com appears complete – it has a full interior, windows, exhaust, all those things many other...
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Vintage racing starter kit: Porsche 935 with Magirus transporter heads to...
Magirus transporter and Porsche 935. Photos courtesy Auctionata. On the surface, vintage racing may seem like a less-expensive way to get into motorsports, but price things out and that illusion...
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Four-Links – hydrostatic chopper, Unsafe, Dave MacIntosh, Pickwick
What you see above may not be immediately recognizable as any form of transportation, but as Engine Swap Depot pointed out this week, it’s something that would make Ray Russell proud: Sam Turner’s...
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Four-Links – The Pit Stop, two-headed Audi, Florida Flywheelers, diesel hot rod
Most of the yearbook carspotting photos posted to Annualmobiles come from dealerships, but here we see The Pit Stop, a speed shop in Pasadena, Texas, with all sorts of goodies to offer. * What is a...
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Four-Links – Paris bans old cars, Shrines to Speed, Rudolf Diesel, 1959...
In an attempt to cut air pollution, the city of Paris has decided to restrict cars built before 1997 from entering the city limits on weekdays (weeknights and weekends they’re still permitted to...
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Building a King, a process that involves switching from gas to diesel
As if we couldn’t tell from previous scratchbuilt trucks built by the brothers Read, Cliff and Larry, they have a fairly masterful knowledge of trucking history, down to the small but significant...
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Four-Links – Charger Daytonas compared, restoring Porsche tractors, Stutz’s...
Dodge announced a new Charger Daytona this past week, so Allpar decided to compare and contrast all the previous iterations of the Daytona to see which one the most recent version most resembles....
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From mobile classroom to racecar hauler: BMC transporter estimated to net...
Photos courtesy Bonhams. The more unusual the vehicle, the more likely it will be put to unusual purposes, a maxim perfectly applicable to one of the last remaining 5-ton BMC transporters, a vehicle...
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Four-Links – dead Citroen block party, Fidel and Miss Green, Checker Model C,...
Forget baking them cookies or letting them borrow your lawnmower, the best way to get to know your neighbors is by parking an old car out front for a few days, as Tim Pitt of Motoring Research...
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