There are several ways to get from one place to another in Kansas and driving fast is most of them. Crankcase was racing street machines when he was sixteen. This is no great feat since he had been building them from the time he was thirteen. He worked the stock car circuit for years until the boredom hit him like a brick wall. A recruiting sergeant with a crooked smile signed him up for a burst of four with promises of speed and glory. Crankcase graduated Ranger School and Desert Warfare School and attended the Special Air Service Tactical Driving School under the NATO Exchange program. Qualified expert: M-16, M1911A1, M-60 and TOW. "Ever get irritable when you're standing in a line that just doesn't seem to be moving at all? Well, the whole seems to be moving in slow motion to Crankcase - all the time! That's why he's constantly ticked-off. He's just not happy unless he has a wheel in one hand, a shifter in the other and the wind in his face."
Crankcase is a G.I. Joe team operative in the A Real American Hero line. First released as a Hasbro carded action figure in 1985, with 1 distinct figure version produced across the 1982 to 1994 vintage run.
Crankcase did not appear by name in the Sunbow or DiC cartoon series synopses. Original Hasbro file-card lore and Marvel ARAH comics appearances are the primary characterization sources.