.

the car junkie daily magazine.

.

Category Archive: BangShift Question Of The Day??, CAR SHOWS, CHEVY, Event Coverage

BangShift Question Of The Day: What Are Your Thoughts On A Stock Car For The Street?

Do you even dare ask how many cars have been cut up in the name of making a racecar? I wouldn’t. Countless G-bodies, mid-1970s Camaros, Fox Thunderbirds and 1970s Mopars have been...

Petrolicious Takes A Look At A C2 Corvette That Now Resides In Belgium

From it’s pointed prow nose with hidden headlights to the twin bullet taillights at the back of it’s curvy rump, the second generation of Chevrolet Corvette was a winner. The C2 looked...

MORE: CHEVY, Videos

Southeastern ALL Chevy/GMC Truck Nationals 2017 Gallery: All Of The General’s Workhorses On Display!

Driving down from Kentucky, I was really beginning to question my own sanity. Not at the choice of show to attend…the Southeastern ALL Chevy/GMC Truck Nationals sounds like an excellent way to...

Rough Start: A Rally Sport Camaro For A Reasonable Price

I tend to be quick to write-off rubber-nosed second gen Chevrolet Camaros. Blame it on a few bad examples in my past, blame it on my personal tastes, but for the most part, they don’t do it for...

Morning Symphony: The Big Red Camaro Ripping Up Pikes Peak, Post-Conflagration!

Last summer, the first-gen F-body known as the Big Red Camaro very nearly came to the end of the road. After a fuel leak turned into a major fire while testing out at Buttonwillow Raceway, we...

Are You A Fan Of The Death Proof Nova? Check Out This Closer Look Of The Real-Deal Car!

Love or hate Quentin Tarantino’s “Death Proof”, you have to approve the car selection. A Vanishing Point-style Challenger, a big-body Mustang that bears a slight resemblance to the...

MORE: CHEVY, Videos

Morning Symphony: Get An Earful Of The 1959 Chevrolet Biscayne “Duntov” Patrol Car!

This dark blue Chevrolet Biscayne was indeed a patrol car, one of forty like it. It’s a bare-bones setup, with rubber floor mats, the most low-buck interior offerings that Chevrolet had, a...

Sideshow: Check Out This Twin-Engine Chevrolet Cavalier! Two Anemic V6s Have To Be Better Than One, Right?

When you throw conventional wisdom out of the window and just start doing something, great things tend to happen. No, really…sometimes overthinking something leads to delays and...

MORE: CHEVY, Videos

Good, Cheap Fun: This Blown 454-powered 1978 Chevrolet Impala Looks Like A Good Time!

First, Chevrolet begat Impala. Then Chevrolet begat Chevelle. Then Chevelle swelled up to the size of a small oil tanker and Impala became a cruise liner. Then OPEC crises hit, big cars went out of...

Classic YouTube: Nothing Says Happiness Quite Like A Small-Block Drag Chevette!

A V8 engine stuffed into a GM T-car is always a good time waiting to happen. The Chevrolet Chevette (and all of the GM badge-engineered versions, including the Buick-Opel and the Isuzu I-Mark) go...

Money No Object: This 2016 Camaro SS Track Weapon Is Built To Kill – The Writeup Sells The Car

I almost brushed this 2016 Chevrolet Camaro SS off as a visuals-only build while surfing eBay. It’s easy to do: take a standard Camaro, throw money at the visuals, and somehow that equates into...

The 2018 Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 1LE Can Run The Nurburgring In 7:16.04 – Here’s The Gear-Banging In-Car Proof!

When Chevrolet ran a standard sixth-gen Camaro ZL1 around the Nurburgring Nordschliefe in 7:29.60, many were quick to praise it. That’s a brutally fast time for a sub-$100K car, let alone one...

Roads Untraveled Goes Out Of Their Element And Hops Into A Warmed Up Rally Nova!

All of the manufacturers tried the “junior musclecar” trick in the early 1970s as a way of skirting insurance companies who had decided to punish lovers of performance. Cars like the...

MORE: CHEVY, Videos

Pretty/Wicked: Justin Moses’s 1956 Chevy Steals The Show, Then Puts One On!

At an event like the Holley Hot Rod Reunion, it’s very, very difficult to stand out when everybody and their mother is trying to stand out. You have to have an “X-factor”, something...