Rear-engine, Rear-wheel drive The post-war period was an exciting time for American automakers for a lot of reasons. One of which being that wartime rationing meant nobody was developing new cars ...

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Full disclosure: The sports car and its sibling shown here were built in the 1930s. The term "rear engine" usually isn't associated with , but in fact I've recently driven three Heckwagens (German ...

Those numbers don't sound like a lot, but they moved a low-slung car that weighed 1,742 lb at its lightest. The engine was placed in the rear, powering the rear wheels through a six-speed single ...

On the surface, rear-engine cars make no sense. Having all that weight behind the rear axle is likely to make a car less easy to turn in and more eager to snap into oversteer; counteracting that ...

Read about Tuning A Carbureted Kit Car Engine that discusses ways to fine-tune your ignition system to perform at it's best for reformulated unleaded gasoline inside Kit Car Magazine.

But that didn't stop racers from continuing to tickle the rear-engine Funny Car paradigm. "Big" Jim Dunn and Joe Reath had Woody Gilmore construct this 'Cuda Funny Car in late-1971.

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Using typical kit car parts, like Mustang II front suspension components, the car's drivetrain is lifted essentially intact from an SA generation Mazda RX-7, which usually means drum rear brakes ...

While the rear-engine design didn’t catch on with consumers of the 1930s, its history can still be appreciated today. The Mercedes-Benz Classic Center is located in Irvine, Calif. For more ...