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Category Archive: CHEVY, Craigslist Find

Rough Start: Everybody Needs A Mullet-Tastic Third-Gen Camaro In Their Lives!

Okay, hear me out. With the passing of Eddie Van Halen recently, I’ve been roaming around my usual haunts playing all sorts of Van Halen music. Which has led me to music channels that tend to...

The AG-330 Start Cart: When You Need To Fire Off The Mother Of All Hot Rods, Bring Out The Big Guns

The Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird’s legend as the fastest aircraft ever created to date can’t be denied by anyone. The exotic-looking, twin-engined reconnaissance aircraft routinely could fly...

Classic YouTube: The Drifting Camaro, In All Of It’s Glory

This footage is the ultimate bad influence. It’s the benchmark for stupid driving fun. It’s a goal that needs to be attained. It’s one of the first Aussie burnout videos I ever saw....

A Wicked Chevrolet Cavalier? Well…This One Might Be Worthy!

I have a low opinion of Chevrolet Cavaliers. The first-generation boxes I’ve dealt with personally…a high-school friend had a two-door sedan with a five-speed that was nothing short of a...

How Honda Forced General Motors To Eat Their Words, A Story Of Pride Going Before The Fall

General Motors has often found itself suffering from a sharp case of foot-in-mouth disease as the years pass on. From such fun issues as the X-body screwup and badge-engineering a Chevrolet Cavalier...

Classic YouTube: The Callaway C6 SuperNatural Corvette LM – Swinging For The Fences In 1994!

In 1989, Callaway Cars did what many consider the impossible: they made a C4 Corvette run 254 miles per hour. The “SledgeHammer” Corvette is still one of the most wicked machines...

How To Sell A 1965 Chevrolet Impala: Stick It On A Rock In The Middle Of The Surf!

Selling a car on a television commercial isn’t as easy as it looks. Just plopping the car down and rattling off what it does have and how much it costs isn’t exciting. Exciting might...

The 1980s, Summed Up In One Tandem Drift – C4 Corvette Versus A Big-Boy Cadillac!

One event that we have yet to check out in person is the Powercruise USA show up at Brainerd International Raceway in Michigan. If “Powercruise” sounds familiar, that’s because you...

Classic YouTube: The Chevrolet Vega “Cutaway” Commercial

Chevrolet bet big on the Vega when they debuted it in 1970. A new assembly plant in Lordstown, Ohio was built, as were the unique Vert-a-pac rail cars that GM designed in conjunction with Southern...

Money No Object: 1997 Chevrolet Camaro SS 30th Anniversary LT4

Colors and stripe kits are open call-outs for performance cars. Rosso Corsa Red might be the international racing color of Italy, but tell me you don’t immediately think of a Ferrari. LimeLight...

Speedy Delivery! This Chevrolet C10 Flatbed Is Giving Us Really Good Ideas!

Work truck…yeah, I remember my first one. Later 1980s Dodge D-50 Ram 2wd, baby blue, stick shift, dead stock and had only been towed behind somebody’s recreational vehicle prior to the...

Random Car Reviews: Two Of The Biggest Hitters Of The 1990s: The Red ’57 Chevy And The White Camaro!

Growing up in the 1990s, if you even had a passing interest in drag racing, you knew who these two guys were. One was a mouthy mother who could curb-stomp and opponent at will in a car that had the...

Get That Lean Going: The Brutal Test Of The 1969 Chevrolet Impala 396!

Seeing how Car and Track skewered the 1974 Chevrolet Camaro Type LT during testing is one thing. The Camaro was at the end of any acceptable form of the Musclecar era, and had cowed into a soft, slow...

Money No Object: 1976 Chevrolet Camaro “Europo Hurst” by Frua

(Photos: RM Sotheby’s) I’m an avowed fan of the 1974-77 form of the Chevrolet Camaro. In general, second-gen Camaros are a score. Everybody loves a split-bumper car, the Vega-style early...