While browsing through the records I kept for my article “Highway Robbery: The Scandal of Auto Repair in America” in Reader’s Digest (May 1987), I was intrigued by one of the findings. When a mechanic ...

Performance Trends was started in 1986 by Kevin Gertgen, an engineer from Ford's dyno lab in Dearborn. Their first product, Drag Race Analyzer, was a drag race simulation for the Apple II. In '86, ...

For more than 20 years, I've explored the methods and benefits derived from PC-based computer software. It is providing an increasingly more accurate picture of the relationship among a wide range of ...

The Forney has more of these vintage engine analyzers in storage, including this pair of Sun machines from the 1960s and 1970s, and one motivated volunteer speaks of setting up an exhibit with the ...