Kyle Smith

How fast could a 1930s tractor go if a 1930s tractor could go fast? Faster than you think. Read the story here.

For those of us unlucky enough to have a storage season, we often err on the side of tucking in the car and either tackling a large project or leaving the car more or less alone till it’s time to drive again. Storage time doesn’t need to be a total “time out” for your beloved vintage ride. Instead, use it to catch up on all the things that often get forgotten, ignored, or otherwise left for winter because the weather was too nice and there was driving to do.

Tires are critically import to a safely functioning automobile—the four rubber rounds mounted at each corner are the only physical connection between your car and the road. Maintaining these all-important tires properly over their life often gets deemed inconvenient even by those who obsess over wear ratings, tread patterns, and sizing at the time of purchase. Deep in the list of great debates about tires is whether or not to change tire pressure with the shift of the seasons. Does lowering pressure really make for a better driving experience in winter?

When you own an experimental car from nearly 70 years ago, parts are only the start of your problems when things go wrong. If anyone is going to be an example of problems like this it’s Jay Leno. The man has a collection that spans pretty much the entire existence of the automobile, and that brings about a whole host of unique problems to solve when things go wrong.

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In my garage, as in yours, there is no shortage of things on which to spend money. To haphazardly throw money at broken things is a fool’s errand, though. So before I allow cash to slip from my wallet’s tight grip I spend at least one night internally debating whether a planned purchase is the right one. On some occasions, of course, I don’t have the time to wait, like when I bought the transmission for my LS-swap Corvette project.

Engines don’t always get a second chance at life. Many are assembled, dropped into a chassis, and then driven until they cannot drive anymore, fixed, driven to the point of failure, fixed again, and repeated until the cost of the repair is no longer rational to the owner. Lucky engines never hit that point. But really lucky engines lie in wait until Davin Rekow and the Redline Rebuild team come to the rescue. The latest rescue mission was a Dodge two-for-one worth watching.

The hiss was fading, but as I sat down on the soft gravel shoulder of the road, I could still hear the steam escaping from the gap between the cylinder head and the engine block. Dark gray clouds hung low, spitting rain that was occasionally punctuated with a gust of wind that easily cut through two layers of sweaters. No other vehicles could be seen on that lonely stretch of Montana Highway 12.