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Step 2: Open all doors Generous airflow helps dry the windows. And if it’s summer, by the time you get to the back window, it can be an oven in there. Plus, some cleaners have a strong smell and fresh ...

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A machine that looks like the offspring of a Batmobile and an exotic sports car rolls toward the starting line. It’s known as a funny car, a beast that competes in drag racing’s top class for ...

But this ain’t no rehash of what you see on Wikipedia, as these are the terms I’ve referenced in Vellum Venom on a somewhat regular basis. Many are germane to design students and scholars, but this ...

Ooh, I get it! Bronco Raptor plus brap! A broad-ranging term of wide acceptance. Believed to have been invented thousands of years ago, when the earth was a harsh wilderness, humanity was primordial ...

In 1949, when Alan and Richard Jensen had to choose a model name for their hand-built English car, they settled on “Interceptor.” In retrospect, the choice was wise: The name is a great bit of ...

Spark plug wires are plugged into the distributor cap according to the firing order of the engine and the direction of the distributor’s rotation. This ’55 Chevy small-block has a firing order of ...

The 1970-74 chrome bumper cars are currently worth in the low-$20,000 range in #2 condition, with #3 condition cars coming in at under $10,000. Rubber bumper MGBs will sell for prices in the mid-teens ...

All the A-body cars, from LeMans to Century to Malibu, shrunk appropriately. In 1977, the Colonnade midsizers were actually about the same size as the brand-new full size cars, though the big cars had ...

To find out how the looks emerged, I tracked down one of the Escort’s original designers, Mark Conforzi. Now retired, Toronto-born Conforzi designed Fords for four decades. In 1986, the Escort was his ...