If drum brakes and flat-tappet camshafts are old-school technology, then springs are quite literally ancient. In some respects the wooden bows and catapults used by medieval knights to bludgeon their ...

Last month we bolted a set of slapper bars onto our '71 Chevy Nova and were stumped when they didn't prove to be a magic solution to the car's traction problems. We were already running slicks (Mickey ...

It is said that the leaf-spring suspension is the oldest suspension used for automobiles. The leaf-spring system was used more recently in '70s production cars, some of which are still in service ...