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Category Archive: CHEVY, Craigslist Find

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...

Would You Rather, The Big 1980’s Coupe Edition!

While there are many who would disagree, the mainstay of hot rods, street machines, muscle cars and projects in the United States are two-doors. The four door body style puts off an air of...

Chevrolet Offers Manchester United Players Free Use Of Corvettes and Camaros, Players Say “No, Thanks” And Hop Into Their Range Rovers

Chevrolet is the current sponsor of Manchester United, Britain’s best known soccer club…er, football club. As the main sponsor, Chevrolet pays Manchester United £47 million per season...

Monday Shopper: This 460hp Impala SS Crossed The Block At Mecum Chicago For $5,000

Mecum Auctions’ Chicago auction just wrapped up this Saturday, and prices reflect a crowd that was ready to buy. A 1986 Monte Carlo SS went for $10,500. A stock 1984 Trans Am went for $14,000....