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Colin Wood
October 1, 2020

Toyota , Rate It , Sera

Rate It: The Toyota That Gave Butterfly Doors to the (Japanese) Masses

What if you want the rad feeling of opening the door to a supercar but don't have supercar money lying around? Toyota had you covered, but only if you lived …

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Colin Wood
October 1, 2020

Ford , Merkur , XR4Ti , Sierra

Your Projects: The Unusual Merkur XR4Ti Makes for an Even More Unusual Race Car

So what does one do with an unusual Ford product like the Merkur XR4Ti? Well, if you are forum user TXratti, you turn one into a race car.

Colin Wood
October 1, 2020

Porsche , 914 , Rate It

Rate It: Is a Flat-Eight-Powered Porsche 914 the Best 60th Birthday Present?

The 914/6 may have been a much-welcomed bump in power over the already stellar 914/4, but what it would have been like to pilot a 914 powered by an eight-cylinder …

Colin Wood
September 30, 2020

Toyota , Celica , GT-S

Looking for Some Radwood Street Cred? This 1985 Celica Might Just Be the Ticket

This 1985 Toyota Celica GT-S has it all: pop-up headlights, factory flared fenders, a convertible top and even a manual transmission.

J.G. Pasterjak
September 30, 2020

Toyota , Supra , MR2 , Tundra , Hilux

Show Us: When Your Tow Vehicle and Race Car Come From the Same Brand

Have a one-make tow rig like our Tundra/MR2 combo? Show it off here.

Colin Wood
September 29, 2020

Honda , Land Rover , Rate It , Crossroad

Rate It: When Honda Sold a Rebadged Land Rover

Sold exclusively in Japan from 1993 to 1998, the Honda Crossroad was little more than a rebadged Series I Land Rover Discovery.

Colin Wood
September 29, 2020

Volvo , LS swap , 240 , Your Projects

Your Projects: Is a Week Enough Time To Turbo LS Swap a Volvo 240?

Engine swaps can take a lot of time, but that didn't stop rustomatic from trying to do one in a week.

Colin Wood
September 28, 2020

Dodge , Lotus , Rate It , Circuit EV , Europa

Rate It: The Other Lotus-Based Electric Sports Car

As it turns out, Tesla wasn't the only company to use a Lotus chassis as the base for an electric car, as Dodge made the Circuit EV.

Colin Wood
September 28, 2020

$2000 Challenge

25 Brave Souls Have Entered the $2000 Challenge Presented by CRC Industries and eBay Motors. Will You Be Number 26?

October 23-24 marks the 2020 running of our Grassroots Motorsports $2000 Challenge presented by CRC Industries and eBay Motors—and there's still time to enter.