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Category Archive: CHEVY, Craigslist Find

A Final Parting Shot For The Wagon War: 1969 Chevrolet Impala 396

I’m grinding my teeth saying that I concede to Brian…it certainly wasn’t for a lack of effort, and I will maintain that the Savoy he posted up was a race car that was chosen simply...

Blog War: One Last Round…The Long-Roof War Has To End

He won’t stop. I don’t know how the hell he does it, but he just won’t stop. I don’t know if he’s paying me back for a Vegas adventure from a few years ago, or if this...

Scrapple, Your Guide To The “meh”-worthy News: Buick Goes Topless, Viper Goes Custom, And Corvette Goes DIY

New year, same old ingredients: take press releases hyping new products we could care less about, cars that don’t come close to our radar, and some of the worst quotes and diatribe from the...

Craigslist Find: This Caprice On 30″ Wheels Is Putting The “Wagon” Into “Station Wagon”

Lohnes and I are currently in the middle of a bitter and cold war of the station wagons, and so far every shot has been, in one way or another, a good one. A low-mileage clamshell Pontiac, two Caddy...

Listening To This GT3 Camaro Rip Around The Track Should Help Some With The Cabin Fever

Drag racing, road racing…hell, at this point I’ll watch a ton of FWD hatchbacks from the early 1990s race in a Wal-Mart parking lot if the drivers will run them like they mean it. Winter...

Ebay Find: This Dart-blocked Monte Carlo Is A Hustler, Ready To Go

When I typed “pro street” into the search bar, I was expecting fully tubbed-out fairground cruisers with blowers that with a little tweak here and there, could become something heroic. I...

2014 Throwback: The Sleeper Chevy W/T From LS Fest

I had forgotten about this ragged-out Chevy 1500 W/T from LS Fest this summer. Peeling paint, bashed-in bed, forgettable aftermarket wheels and no exhaust note to speak of, it looked like just about...

You Want A Pretty, High-Dollar Corvette? How About The One Of The Three Handbuilt Scaglietti Corvettes?

The 1956 SR-2 Corvette…well played, Brian and Justin. It’s very hard to knock a Corvette that had the backing of Zora Arkus-Duntov and Harley Earl…wait a minute. Something sounds...

Ebay Find: Two Tons Of Fun With A Blown Big-Block Chevy Wagon

Raise your hand if a 800hp, blown Chevy station wagon doesn’t sound like fun to you. Keep your hand up…now, find the door and make a hasty exit, because if you can’t find even one...

Ebay Find: Just In Time For Christmas, A Rusty Chevrolet!

Anyone reading this site should be familiar with the Christmas spoof “Rusty Chevrolet” by Da Yoopers. (If you aren’t, CLICK HERE to listen to it!) It’s always inspiring to...

Ebay Find: This Duramax-Powered 1970 Chevelle Can Give You Speed And Fuel Economy, At A Price

Not everybody is cut out to build their own car, and that’s alright. The engineering and mechanical ability required to put together a high-quality car takes years, sometimes decades, to...

Tofurkey: Chevrolet’s EN-V 2.0 Electric Car To Be Used In Chinese Car-Sharing Experiment

Students of the Shanghai Jiao Tong University, meet the vehicle of choice for  your new car-sharing ride program. The Chevrolet EN-V 2.0 was selected to be the vehicle of choice for the...

Random Car Review: The 1984 Chevrolet Caprice “Corvette Chaser” Wagon

Developmental mules are a necessary evil in the automotive engineering world. You want to get real-world data on the parts and systems, but either you take out the new car which you are trying to...

Get ‘Em While You Still Can: GM Will Not Produce The SS After 2017, Won’t Make A RHD Camaro For Aussies

GM has a notorious pattern: the second it actually gets a product right (or at least on the right track) the first thing it does is pull the plug on the model. There are plenty of good examples: the...