Motoropia at Grease Monkey Garage

Introduced at the Chicago Auto Show on Thursday is the new 2022 Ford Bronco Everglades special edition - and yes, it includes a snorkel from the factory!

You may have seen many different variations of vintage "Buffalo Gasoline" advertising signs, but what most people don't know is that two different companies marketed their gasoline under the Buffalo Gasoline brand.

If you are looking to start your very own communist state or just want a new kid hauler for your wife, boy have I found the car for you! Unfortunately, logistics might be a little tough, as this beast is going under the hammer at the Rétromobile 2022 sale in Paris on March 18th.

Sunoco stands as a testament to American industrial ingenuity and resilience. Beginning as a modest partnership in 1881, Sunoco has navigated over a century's worth of economic fluctuations, technological revolutions, and global events to emerge as one of the largest petroleum refiner-marketers in the United States.

Taking up about a quarter of the North Hall of the Las Vegas Convention Center this year at SEMA was the "Chip Foose Experience," billed as the largest collection of Chip Foose designed vehicles ever assembled, including all four of his Ridler Award winning cars. 

You may remember our post from back in May about the Big Oly Baja racer fetching $1.87 million at auction. Well, here it is! It is sitting center stage in a hall dedicated to race and off-road trucks and vehicles.

You heard that right. Ford Performance has delivered on its promise of offering the Mustang GT500's powerful Predator V8 to its line of crate engines. The 5.2 liter engine makes 760 horsepower and 625 pound-feet of torque in the GT500, topped by an Eaton TVS R2650 supercharger, featuring forged aluminum pistons, forged steel connecting rods, and a forged steel crankshaft.

I've made a couple of social media posts about the EVs at SEMA already, but here are a few more pics of some builds from Webb Motorworks out of British Columbia with their E-Crate motors.

Chevrolet Performance has just unveiled its largest, most powerful crate engine ever - The ZZ632/1000 - a 632 cubic inch monster V8 delivering 1,004 horsepower and 876 lb-ft of torque.

Did you know that Ford Motor Company was experimenting with single overhead camshafts in the Windsor engine family as far back as 1968? Well, I didn't either until a recent trip to Speedway Motors Museum of American Speed in Lincoln, Nebraska.

The Ford Motor Company was founded in 1903 by Henry Ford with $28,000 and the backing of seven additional investors (including John and Horace Dodge). After production of a relatively small number of vehicles in its first few years, Ford introduced the mass-produced Model T in 1908 and continued its production until 1927. Due in large part to Ford Motor Company's introduction in 1913 of numerous methods for large-scale manufacturing of cars, including some of the first moving automotive assembly lines, the company went on to sell over 15 million vehicles over that nearly 20 year period. 

On February 23, 1964, Chrysler debuted its new 426 Hemi engine at the 1964 Daytona 500. Now imagine, if you will, being Henry Ford II and watching Richard Petty win those 500 laps behind the wheel of a Hemi powered Plymouth. Remember, this is the same guy that tried to buy Ferrari the year before and ended up rejected at the altar.