Owning a car can be hard, but it's the people who brave the struggle who do the most for car culture. Among those people is this hero in Seattle who built an engine crane out of two-by-six planks.

There are very few sounds sweeter to a gearhead than a small-block spinning past 8,000 rpm. For anyone who appreciates internal-combustion engines and horsepower, a race engine spinning at high rpm is ...

MARTIN COUNTY — Meredith Bigelow stepped outside and found herself in a standoff with a 4-foot-tall sandhill crane. "The bird was standing by the front of my car, just pecking at it, like super ...