Hackaday, which normally focuses on Arduinos and other hardware hacking projects, recently examined the Lotus Seven and decreed it one of the most hackable cars. It’s always encouraging when the DIY/Maker movement discovers hot rodding.
* Henry Ford might have been against replacing the four-cylinder engine in his mass-appeal cars during the Twenties, but that didn’t mean he stopped experimenting with alternative engine configurations, as we can see from Mac’s Motor City Garage’s recent look at the X-8 experimental engine that Ford tinkered with.
* Here in the States, we’ve seen plenty of rebadging disasters, and it seems that scourge is just as bad if not worse in Australia. The Garage of Awesome recently ran down a few of the more egregious examples.
* Usually, a Ferrari engine swap becomes a car’s most noteworthy feature. Not so with the Zlatko Cosmopolit, which, well, was certainly different.
* Finally, for those who think that Rambler pioneered in-car sleeping, an entry in The Old Motor’s recent Nothing New Under the Sun series points out an early predecessor.
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