From the twice as good department comes not one, but two Ford Pintos. The ’72 Pinto with the American Racing Libre wheels belongs to Mike Streets, and is an award winning genuine BOSS PINTO – Hot Pants edition. Really. The chin spoiler, body cladding, rear spoiler, and stripe package all add up to factory-original ’70s awesome. Mike infused some of his own Pinto road racing heritage into the 2.0L mill along with a set of Weber side drafts. The yellow ’72 with the Thunderbird wheels tucked up under the fenders belongs to Paul Sanguinetti, who joined Mike out on the lawn at the Goodguys show to help bring the Runabouts back. These guys and a rag tag fugitive fleet of FoMoCo faithful are on their way to to SoCal to make the 24th Annual Fabulous Fords Forever over 40 Pintos more boss.
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Proving false that lightning doesn’t strike twice is this sporting example of what happened the last time Detroit got slightly discombobulated, and we sought alternative propulsion as a pan-galactic solution to our futuristic driving visions. This 1980 Dodge Omni 024-Plymouth Horizon TC3 stands as the only electric car ever sighted on many trips to the boneyard. Research uncovers this particular long-since recycled electric car was originally manufactured by now defunct Jet Industries of Austin, Texas. Jet purchased gliders, or cars without infernal combustion engines, from 
The best kind of technology is helpful and easy to use. That being said, we present the funnel in its many forms. While the true origins of this simple device are unclear, its utility knows no bounds. The word we use comes from the latin infundibulum, and may or may not have something to do with wine pouring Frenchmen. Though a great jet-age breakthrough in plastics technology brought the affordable funnel to the automotive masses, steel is still a viable choice for certain chemicals and tasks. A metal version funnel with built in screen filter and semi-flexible spout is an often used part of the Clunkbucket arsenal of tools and helpful equipment. The funnel is essential for getting oil in the crankcase instead of all over a hot exhaust manifold, or engine coolant into the radiator instead of onto the ground. When it comes time to pour automotive fluids, use a funnel for the win. Just don’t use the same funnel to make funnel cakes.
Until we all get our atomic hovercars, the good majority of what we drive utilizes internal combustion engines for propulsion. The engine is more or less a giant air pump – it takes in air, mixes it with fuel, compresses the mix, then adds a spark to make power. An engine can breathe in a surprising volume of air. A small 2-liter engine can huff nearly 3000 liters of air per minute at cruising speed. That’s 1500 2-liter bottles of RC Cola, not counting Moon Pies. Every bit of this air enters the engine through the air filter, whose job it is to stop all the junk in the air from getting inside the engine.
It’s only been three weeks, but we’re changing up the format of this here LeMon of the Week thang. Finding a beaten, rust-laden nightmare for sale on the internets is all fine and good, but what we want to do is give you some insight into how the LeMons brain trust works. In other words, these are cars we want to see resurrected and battling it out around a race track. This week we sail back from across the pond from France and Italy to the good old US of A, all the to Kenosha, Wisconsin in fact. For you see it was in that now defunct factory that our UAW brethren past forged together the from-certain-angles majestic AMC Pacer. Our friend and colleague Dan Neil named the bubble-backed Pacer to his 
If for no other reason than wanting to see a resurgence in cellulose fueled steam engine motoring, Clunkbucket is proud to announce the vortex of awesome that is the Pacific Coast Dream Machines show. Shown here is the Famous Buffalo Springfield Steam Roller, part of the collection of machines maintained and operated by the 
Ben F. Gregory constructed a front wheel drive roadster even before fishing some diamonds allegedly acquired from a Kansas City madam out of a gas tank and making way to California in 1920. Once out west Gregory sold the diamonds, and with the take installed a Hispano-Suiza engine in a a proper Gregory 
