A KING OF AG

1978 Case 1570 Agri King Case was within sight of the top power tier of the tractor market when it debuted the 70 series tractors […]

Diesel Power VS Electric Power

Why Diesel Will Survive The Current Push For An Electric World The whole world is going electric, or so we’re told. But the reality is […]

Vintage Diesel Engine That Starts On Gas

International Harvester’s Gas Start Diesels Making diesels user friendly was an uphill struggle in the late 1920s and early ‘30s. The advantages of the compression-ignition […]

1929 Otto KV 50 

You Otto Know The engine in this story is one of the last built in the United States with a direct connection to the beginnings […]

The Orange & the Green

1970 Allis-Chalmers 220M Military In 1970, the United States Air Force announced it’s first operationally ready Bare Base squadron, the 336th Tactical Fighter Squadron. Part […]

Endurance

1977 EMD 16-645E6 Anybody here think their truck will still be in service 111 years from now? Here’s a 118 year old tugboat that remained […]

Tractor Talk - 1961 Case W5 Terraload’r

1961 Case W5 Terraload’r By Jim Allen In the mid 1950s, ongoing market research at J.I. Case determined they needed a line of wheel loaders […]

Vintage Opposed Pistons

Fairbanks-Morse Model 38 By Jim Allen How do you fit ten pistons into five cylinders and make a running diesel engine? Well, the diesel engine […]

1,000HP 12-Valve Cummins

It’s Not Impossible! Just because the electronically controlled Cummins mills burn cleaner and are easier to fine-tune doesn’t mean street able 12-valve applications have gone […]

Middie Minnie

1964 Minneapolis Moline 602E The M-Series Minneapolis-Moline tractors debuted in 1960, replacing the 5-Star tractors of the late 1950s in the middleweight tractor role. It […]

Coolspring Power Museum

Where Vintage Engines Come to Live Again If you follow Vintage Smoke you will know we’ve covered engines from the Coolspring Power Museum several times […]

Vintage Smoke - Ford 6.9L IDI

1983-87 International/Ford 6.9L IDI Public and governmental outcry after the oil shortages of the early ‘70s forced U.S. auto, light truck and commercial truck makers […]

Upgrade your 2020 L5P Duramax

Emissions Friendly Upgrades for the 2020 Duramax There is no denying how well GM has executed these latest generation heavy duty trucks. The 2020+ Silverado […]

JIMMY & JOHNNY

1960 John Deere 435 and 440 John Deere was just couple of years away from debuting a completely new line of tractors when they found […]

FLYING DIESELS

Whether you’ve seen them in person or not, you know there are diesel in ships and boats, road vehicles of all types, off road vehicles […]

Small, Tall Tractor

1967 Massey Ferguson 165 Hi-Hi Consult the books on Massey Ferguson tractors and you will see no high clearance model of the MF165 listed. So […]

Black Hole Cummins

1964 Cummins  VT12-825-M Not all diesel engines have glamorous jobs in fancy places… like under the hood of your pickup. Some toil in the dark, […]

Red Heavyweight

1966 International Harvester Farmall 1206 The Farmall 1206 was International’s first over-100 horsepower tractor as well as being the first over-100 horsepower rowcrop tractor on […]

Getting Up to Speed

Installing Duramaxtuner’s 6-SPD Conversion Kit in an LB7 It has officially been twenty years since GM introduced the Duramax and Allison transmission combination to the […]