* Last year, friends and family of physicist and Nobel Prize winner Richard Feynman banded together to restore Feynman’s 1974 Dodge Tradesman van. This year, they’re trying to get the Smithsonian to accept it into the museum’s collections.
* Swapping one supercharged GM 3800 V-6 into a New Beetle wasn’t enough for the owner of the car called Beetlejuice. Instead, he went with a second and now plans to turbocharge both, according to EngineSwapDepot.
* Trees! They’re not just there for us to cut down to make into toilet paper. They’re also there for us to cut tunnels through, as we see from the Drive-Thru Trees gallery on Flickr.
* Coachbuilder Vantagefield didn’t build the above-pictured vehicle from a Hummer. No, according to Banovsky, it somehow managed to procure a handful of HMMWVs to convert into hunting vehicles in the days before Humvees became (literally) civilized.
* Finally, how many Opalas are enough? For one Brazilian collector, an even dozen. (via)
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