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Category Archive: CHEVY, eBay Find

Money No Object: This 1979 Chevrolet El Camino Pro Street Build Is The Perfect 1990s Throwback!

I grew up going through all of the magazines…Hot Rod, Car Craft, Popular Hot Rodding and every other rag that my stepdad had subscriptions for…and seeing cars just like this Chevrolet El...

Question Of The Day: How Would You Built This Four-Speed Chevrolet Celebrity?

Yes, it’s another 1980s front-driver from McTaggart, the patron saint of automotive lost causes. Bear with me on this one, because this is one of the strangest oddballs I’ve come across...

Ride Along With Matt Farah As He Takes The Detroit Speed Monte Carlo SS Shop Car Out For A Run!

There are plenty of GM G-body fans within the BangShift readership. Aw, who are we kidding…there are two major G-body fans writing: Nutting, who owns two Monte Carlos (that I can remember at...

Answering The Call Of The Blower With A 1978 Chevrolet Camaro Type LT!

Normally, this is where I’d put some cheesy line about “Autumn is blower season”, but seriously…blower cars don’t have a season unless you live in a place where you risk...

The Rarest Of The Rare: The Story Of How The Only Existing 1983 Corvette Managed To Miss The Scrapper!

Until I actually got to Bowling Green, I wasn’t aware that an actual 1983 Chevrolet Corvette actually existed. Seriously, I didn’t. I knew about the aborted test run of cars, and I knew...

Copart Cadavers: This 1969 Chevrolet Chevelle Needs To Be Saved From The Crusher!

By the time I turned 18, I was already guilty of committing many, many atrocities against cars that didn’t deserve their fate. A 1975 Dodge Coronet was jumped, rolled, driven through trees,...

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Is There Anything Better Than Watching A 1966 Chevy Impala Going Wheels-Up At Launch? We Don’t Think So…Check This Out!

You can blame this video on my personal affinity for a black 1965 Impala that ran in NMCA’s Super Street category years ago: Nick Scavo’s Impala, nicknamed “Orca”. Between the...

Rough Start: Get Your Long Roof Fix With This 1979 Chevrolet Malibu Wagon!

If you haven’t noticed yet, the desirable late 1970s-early 1980s cars are starting to come up in value. What do we mean by “desirable”, when quite a few people dismiss that entire...

Is The Party Over? Mustang Plants Are Idled As Camaro Somehow Outsells Ford In September!

For the first time in a couple of years, the Chevrolet Camaro has outsold the Ford Mustang…and that isn’t quite the open and shut case you would believe it should be. The Mustang has sold...

The Fuzz With The Buzz: This Nitrous-Infused Caprice PPV Is A Beast! We Want!

GM might not like the idea of the Chevrolet Caprice PPV getting into civilian hands, but what were they really going to do about it once police units started to sell them out of the fleet? It was the...

This 1967 Chevrolet Camaro Project Has Us Thinking About A Halloween-Appropriate Build – Check This Out!

Putting “project” into the search bar of eBay Motors is dangerous…you’ll get everything from cars that look like they were drug out of a fetid swamp to late model rides that...

This 1970 Chevrolet Chevelle Is Urging You To Leave Your Mark Wherever You Go…Tough Car!

Hello. This is your conscience. You know, that annoying little guy in white, sitting on your shoulder, with the glowing ring above his head, keeping your hide out of jail, safe with the wife, and in...

Rough Start: Go For Broke With This 1984 Chevrolet Camaro Trar!

Ah, the question we all as gearheads dread: “What kind of vehicle should I get?” For some people, the answer is easy: get a car that gets good gas mileage, has proven to be dead-nuts...

Roughest Start: Dream Big When It Comes To This Sunken Chevrolet!

Remember when you looked at a project car with rose-colored glasses on? It didn’t matter that it had cracking Bondo in the quarters or that the paint was washing off with each pass of the soapy...