Raise of hands. Who has rebuilt an engine? How about a Flathead V-8 engine? Ahh, the Ford Flatty. Likely the most iconic engine of its time, if not all time, and certainly the most powerful when it came out in 1932 as the Ford V-8.
No, SolidSmack is not reporting on recipes to cook the best pizza sauce and neither are we reporting on La Tomatina, however we are simply marveling at the strange bedfellows technology makes. News is that Ford and the ketchup guys H.J. Heinz have gotten together and are working on ways to get tomatoes into the…
Outside of Need for Speed and other driving simulator videogames, the knowledge of ‘real’ manual transmission driving is dying out with younger generations of drivers. Ford engineer Zachary Nelson is aiming to change all that with a new 3D printed shift knob that tells you when to shift based on haptic feedback—essentially creating the physical…