All of the technological improvements to vehicles over the past few decades have led to cars and trucks that would seem borderline magical to anyone driving something like a Ford Pinto in the 1970s.

This issue, I'm giving my pal Jimmy White the month off so he can focus on other important jobs in the shop—not that my Tudor's unimportant by any means, mind you. The break will also allow me the ...

One of the reasons many of us build hot rods is akin to why painters, sculptors, and musicians ply the trade that they choose: personal expression. No two hot rods are the same due to that natural ...

A couple years back, I bought a solid, low-mile 1966 Dodge A100 forward-control van that had been sidelined for many years with a rod-knocky engine. After dropping a good junkyard 318-cubic-inch V8 ...

With all the EV hype in the air, you’d be forgiven for thinking electric vehicles are something new. But of course, EVs go way, way back, to the early 19th century by some reckonings. More recently ...

There are many ways to upgrade the infotainment capabilities of an old car, and while most people turn to head unit upgrades to get new-gen systems like Apple CarPlay and Android Auto, these bring ...

The instrument clusters of today's cars show a clear trend away from electromechanical pointer instruments and toward solutions with significant focus on graphical displays. This paper provides an ...

Digital instrument clusters are poised to supersede analog clusters in next-generation vehicles. This may seem surprising at first, since digital clusters require higher-end CPUs and much more ...

In late 2023, Porsche previewed what next-generation CarPlay could look like in its vehicles, with a pair of images showing a custom instrument cluster and more. However, the luxury automaker has yet ...