A Useful Car in a Small Package

Drum brakes are used all around on the Corolla; two leading shoes in front and leading and trailing shoes in the rear. Pedal pressure is reasonable and no sig­nificant fade was noticeable ...

A ”Competition Handling” Suspension

The dragstrip was also the place to find out whether the hood scoop had as much effect on acceleration as it did on appearance. Its operation is very simple. Whenever manifold vacuum drop...

Interior Flaws and Future Plans

Despite its tire weaknesses, the Corvette is a superior automobile in all departments of handling. Like the man said, the machine is excellent, but the car's functional applications are li...

Intricacies of Fuel Injection

Originally published in Sports Cars Illustrated magazine in June 1957. As these points were observed the engine coolant rose to about 170 degrees F. and the idle dropped to a mere 1200....

Suspension and Brakes

Originally published in Sports Cars Illustrated in March 1959.Having carefully selected our list, we were pleasantly surprised to find that the Chevrolet Division could put such a sample at...

Acceleration and Transmissions

As always, the fuel-injected Corvette engine is a sweetheart to drive. Power is excellent, but even more impressive is the torque curve, which is as close to being flat as any we've seen. F...

Area of Maximum Tuning

In 1963 we were a bit stunned by a Mercury Marauder that had 427 cubic inches, 425 horsepower, good handling, and performance that, to us, was absolutely breathtaking. The Tempest GTO is ...

Race Breeding and Engineering

The barrels have alloy cooling fins and shrunk-in "Hirai" (a spe­cial cast iron) liners. The bore and stroke, at 3.15 x 2.60 inches (80 x 66mm) are fashionably oversquare, with a ratio of...

Standard High-Performance

Nor is there any significant difference between this year's Shelby Mustang and last year's, although there is a whale of a difference between Ford's stock $3500 Mustang and Shelby's versio...