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Category Archive: CHEVY, eBay Find

Ebay Find: This Rear-ended 1971 Camaro Is Looking For A New Home

Wait a minute…this isn’t Brian’s Copart Cadavers, so why are you seeing this bent and twisted 1971 Camaro? eBay isn’t just a source of whole cars going up for sale at...

It’s Not A Chevelle With A Blown Radiator, It’s The SE-124 – A Steam-Powered Chevrolet!

The Chevrolet Chevelle can be found with many different engines. From the factory straight sixes and low-end small-blocks to big blocks, from nitrous-snorting high-RPM screamers to mountain motors,...

Check Out This Footage of Bill “Grumpy” Jenkins Running At The 1968 NHRA Nationals – Gear Jamming With A Cigar

“Grumpy” Jenkins’ status as an NHRA legend is uncontested. Wheeling a number of violent Chevrolets, Jenkins was an engineer first, racer second, and tolerated no fools at the line....

Unhinged: The Satisfaction Of Vindication…or, Thank You, Regular Car Reviews, For Showing What A 1999 Blazer Really Is

Shortly after joining the Army in 2001, I had come to the conclusion that I needed to focus on saving the money I was making and to become more a more responsible adult than I had been prior to...

The Entire Story Of The Very First Chevrolet Camaro – From Pilot Test Program, To Dragstrip Terror, To Restored, This Video Shows It All

There’s always “the first”, no matter what happens. In the case of a typical new model of automobile, the first is a beta, a test of sorts. You have to build one to set up how the...

Footage of Solaris Motorsports’ EuroV8 Camaro Tearing Around Monza – An Orphaned Race Car Screaming In Anger

Unfortunately, this is a kind of bittersweet video. This Camaro has been over in Italy for quite some time, running in the SuperStars and EuroV8 racing series. Unfortunately, that entire series has...

Unhinged: “What Is The Strangest Combination You Could Think Up That Could Work?”

I’ll preface this with an apology: I’m running on fumes and have been for the last few days. Little to no sleep combined with hours staring at a computer screen have left me looking less...

Scrapple, Your Guide To The “meh”-worthy News: iDrive Featuring Siri, Your One-Armed Budii, And A Broken Weiner

Come inside from the cold, dust the snow off of your boots at the door, and sit down. We’ve got the Malört poured and we’re frying up some of our favorite news from the “who gives...

Top 11: No V8 Needed – A Selection Of Cars We Would Take A Different Path With

(Lead photo: Bret Kepner) I can’t speak for the other two, but in my automotive history I’ve only dealt with two vehicles that did not have V8s: a Chevy Blazer that had the 4.3 V6, and a...

Question of the Day: The Postal Service Needs A New Fleet Vehicle. So, What Would You Have Them Drive?

While many of us still have fond memories of the local Post Office employee tooling around in a Jeep DJ mail truck, that hasn’t really been the case since the Grumman LLV (Long Life Vehicle)...

Scrapple: Your Guide To The “meh”-worthy News: Bolts, Catapults, And Street Justice!

With the Chicago Auto Show dumping uninspiring cars and unbelievably chromed-out trucks on us, it seems fitting that this week’s Scrapple should be Chicago-based…so take a half-eaten hot...

Job Complete: The National Corvette Museum’s Sinkhole Is Filled…And Not With C3s, Either

Just about a year ago, the ground underneath the Skydome section of the National Corvette Museum gave way and opened up a 30 foot deep hole in the floor, swallowing up eight rare and valuable pieces...

How To Mess With Late-Model Muscle: The Callaway Twin-Turbo Corvette

As it sits right now, you can go to a dealership, drop about fifty grand and walk out with a set of wheels that will accelerate, corner, and stop with great comfort. All you have to do is pick your...

Would You Rather? It’s A 1970’s Ford Vs. Chevy Battle, But It’s Not Camaro Vs. Mustang…

For this round of “Would You Rather?”, I decided to straight to the options list instead of the cars themselves. One Ford, one Chevrolet. They must have been built between 1970 and 1979,...