I've been turning wrenches on my cars since 1987, when I was 23 years old. I'd have started a lot earlier, but my dad was a college physics professor with zero appreciation for cars. He wisely ...

High output engines were once expected to run reliably for hundreds of thousands of miles if owners kept up with basic ...

I spent the first half of the 1970s wrenching on supercharged fuel Funny Cars. Those familiar with the breed know that even back then, nitromethane-burning Funny Car engines had short fuses and made ...