A nice thing about having a small collection of old cars is the chance to actually drive them once in a while. This may sound like a strange assertion, but many of us have cars that mostly sit, and ...

A century of use as the go-to method for storing enough electrons to spin the starter motor of a car engine has endeared ... the bank takes a charge from a cheap 24V hand generator.

Believe it or not, some European car makers used hand cranks into the 1990s (including ... or some other stroke of bad luck ...