During my Malaise Era childhood, my sisters and I would often set up the card table for an acrimonious,…

This Swedish inline-four debuted in 1981, but it was essentially a redesign of the 1972 Saab-Scania B engine, which…

I know what you cancer-stick-addicted types are saying: "But you can use a lighter to open a bottle!" Yes, yes, a…

Remember the DOTS '67 Mercury Cougar that showed up later in the junkyard? It appeared that much the same thing was…

We're exaggerating a tiny bit here; the '78 928's sticker price was $28,500, or approximately 9.5 times the $2,995…

Welcome to Down On The Street, where we admire old vehicles found parked on the streets of the Island That Rust…

Hacking up a hail-damaged car and turning it into a giant, highway-capable whale is one thing… but when your…

Remember that Fiat tachometer I scored at Junkyard Half Price Day? Well, it and many other scavenged pieces have…

I've been running into Northern California Alfa restorer Conrad Stevenson pretty regularly- he's the Ecurie Ecrappe…

I got so many shots of interesting Italian machinery at the Conrad Stevenson Restorations shop that I had to put the…

This is Down On The Street Bonus Edition, where we check out interesting street-parked cars in places other than the …

I tell you what, my latest junkyard haul has me considering a name change to Brougham E. Landau (the E stands for…

After the judicial bribes, one of the things we love best about the 24 Hours Of LeMons is the way many of the teams…

Some of you observant types might notice that British Leyland and the Rootes Group were totally separate…

Mitsubishi hasn't been well represented in this series, so let's follow up its Astron engine with another Mitsubishi…

With a 1990 Chrysler TC By Maserati yesterday, the only possible DOTS choice for today must be The General's TC…

Not long ago, I dug up some old photos of the 1958 Volkswagen Beetle that launched me on the primer-and-junkyards…

These days, Volkswagen's marketers would sooner dump ground glass down their lederhosen than pitch their products as…

We've only seen one V12 Engine Of The Day so far? Unacceptable! Let's take a look at an engine that you Project Car…

Taking place the same weekend as the Monterey Historic Races, the lure of the Buttonwillow Histrionics 24 Hours Of…