Green Monster #5 will reappear after a careful restoration, October 16-18, at the 18th Annual NHRA Hot Rod Reunion and Cacklefest in Bakersfield, Calif. This historical, missing link from drag ...
What qualities come to mind when you think of the archetypical big American internal combustion engine? Is it giant, hulking leviathans where anything less than eight cylinders is paramount to commie ...
Four auto starter solenoids pop the tugboat clutch and 3000 pounds of hot rod is fired through quarter-mile at over 180 mph on gas. Anybody who has been around the drag strips long knows that /I ...
General Motors Corp., long harassed by controversy over its Allison aircraft engine, last week distributed a booklet packaged in heavy cellophane, and titled: Airplane Power (with special reference to ...
Had Jim Lytle not nearly blown his own doors off in 1963, he wouldn’t have imagined replicating an entire 1934 Ford body as a single, removable piece. While he rightly calculated that a V12 Allison ...
In 1945, preliminary design began on Allison's first turboprop engines. One was the T40 (Allison Model 500), which consisted of two T38 power sections driving co-axial contrarotating propellers ...