Diesel Engines

The Hidden Gem of Small Displacement Diesel BMW 3.0L I-6 M57 It’s an engine that is tough as nails, extremely efficient on fuel, and highly […]

The Most Revered Oil-Burners Ever Assembled From the farm to the highway, construction equipment to gen-sets, and emergency vehicles to the trucks we drive every […]

Whiskey Cummins This story is as much about a pair of Cummins engines that protected thousands of gallons of Seagrams whiskey from 1970 to 1991 […]

Last Scream of the Jimmy In 1954, when Oliver needed a powerful diesel to one-up their competitors, they went to General Motors. The Detroit Diesel […]

The Sixth Time’s a Charm for this Talented Builder. If it’s true that the more you do something, the better you get at it, then […]

The John Deere 2630 The 1970s would bring about one of John Deere’s biggest model line updates, the Generation II tractors. The previous New Generation […]

1961 International B-160 Diesel Demonstrator International was one of the first truck manufacturers to start pushing diesel engines in light and medium duty trucks. Back […]

A few of our favorites from the last 15-years Diesel Swaps tend to be on just about everyone’s list of “one day” projects. So, seeing […]

Classy Tractors With this, we will have covered three of the four Sheppard tractor models built from 1949 to 1956. We covered the SD-3 in […]

1903 Augsburg DM 12 Diesel If you want to see the first compression ignition engine built by Rudolph Diesel, you have to go to Munich, […]

A 6 hp Hornsby Oil Engine Diesel’s 1898 patent on the compression ignition engine is the well-charted beginning of the engine type we now call […]

1978 Allis-Chalmers 8550 In the early 1970s, Allis-Chalmers joined the ranks of the manufacturers offering articulated four-wheel drive tractors. They started by rebadging the Bearcat […]

Diesel Club Car It is not uncommon to see UTVs, golf carts and even small cars/SUVs used as pit vehicles at pull tracks, but they […]

Military Industrial Connections Diesel engines have a wide variety of applications, one of the notable ones being the military. Because of the durability, efficiency, and […]

Hold or Drop? Diesel trucks are known for holding their value quite well, even with extensive mileage. This is because of their durability, efficiency, and […]

The Global System The heavy machinery industry is one of the largest sectors within the global economy. As every economic superpower trades with each other, […]

Moving Towards Danger, Rather Than Away From It America’s first responders are some of the bravest individuals in the world. Most people would rather run […]

Diesels Worth A Pretty Penny Diesel engines are excellent choices because of their performance, durability, and efficiency. In the realm of boating, diesels are excellent […]

A 1947 US Motors Diesel Generator on a Historic Ship Diesel generators have many uses aboard a ship. Usually they have a fairly central role, […]

1949 Cletrac ADH Cletrac created a new market segment in 1916 when it introduced the diminutive model R crawler. When Rollin H. White founded Cleveland […]