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Category Archive: CHEVY, Craigslist Find

Rough Start: Will This 1977 Chevrolet Camaro Buff Out Well Enough?

Love makes people do stupid things. I love watermelon, so I plant seeds, till the ground and wind up growing fruit the size of my next-door neighbor’s kid…so much of it, in fact, that I...

Rough Start: Flip Nader The Bird In This 1965 Chevrolet Corvair Monza

For once, seeing a model of a car die just as it was becoming great wasn’t completely the fault of General Motors. Plenty of the blame had to be laid on the head of one Mr. Ralph Nader, who had...

This 1969 COPO Chevelle Is An Understated Badass! 427, Four-Speed, 4.10s Out Back!

Part of the beauty of the 1964-74 Musclecar Era was that manufacturers had started to embrace the idea that the buyer needed to be the one dictating options, not the factory. The first-generation...

Down To The Ground: This 1999 Chevrolet Suburban Is Cruising Sweetness!

Just wait and see…the 1988-2000 GMT400 series of trucks will be the next classic GM truck to have, following the 1967-72 second-generation C/K and the third-generation “Rounded...

Rough Start: Do You Remember Finding 1975 Chevrolet Malibus Like This?

If I had the money to buy a car circa 1994, the buying process would’ve looked a lot like this: a ton of decrepit second-gen F-bodies, a sea of 1980s era GM G-bodies and Fox Mustangs and...

A Revisited Project: We Check In On That Monster 1985 Chevy Caprice – Nearly 700 Horses At The Wheels!

Well, well, well…am I happy to see this beast again. You might remember this 1985 Chevy Caprice from when we first saw it at Steve’s Automotive in Lebanon, Tennessee at the beginning of...

Money No Object: A Dream El Camino For Chad? This 1969 Could Be The One!

So Chad wants to tempt me with a Dodge Mirada that has a straight body and…well, that’s about it, really. Ok, it didn’t have a roof diaper on it, but still, it would be ground zero...

Rough Start: This 1996 Corvette Is The Perfect Do-It-All Low-Buck Buy!

I have friends who question why I’ve always owned and maintained two cars since 2005. The answer is very simple: I want one daily driver and one toy, and may the roles of those two cars never...

Two Thousand Horsepower And Tons Of Beauty: This Impala SS Is A Beast!

If there is nothing I love more, it’s a race car that you don’t see many of every day. Yes, you see Camaros, Mustangs, Vegas, AMXs and other typical finds for a reason: the recipe works...

Rough Start: The Nicest Vega GT We’ve Seen…Ever! Still All Original!

The Chevy Vega is a car whose reputation is solidified and earned. A car that General Motors had envisioned would be the machine they could use to turn the tide against a sea of Volkswagens and...

This Chevrolet R3500 Is Missing It’s Engine…What Would You Stuff Into The Engine Bay?

The other day I posted up a square-body GMC that had no bed that I had dreams of turning into a big-block flatbed howler. That didn’t seem to go too well, so I’m gonna send up another...

Rough Start: This 1982 GMC Dually Has “Wicked Work Truck” All Over It!

If there is a good side to what you are looking at, it’s the price. Only $900 of your hard-earned dollars from your rainy-day fun need to be sacrificed in the name of picking up a square-body...

Rough Start: A Flamed 1984 Chevy Van Is Always A Good Idea!

It has been suggested that I should leave my comfort zones of vehicle hunting and dig through locations other than the deserts and the High Plains areas of the country, where the metal is awesome and...

Recycling Gone Wrong: GM Announces The New 2.7L Turbo-Four Will Be Called “Tripower”

Dusting off an old, storied nameplate to affix it to a new thing almost never works out well. When Pontiac re-badged the Holden Monaro, a potent rear-drive coupe with a V8 and a six-speed, into the...