Category Archive: CHEVY, Craigslist Find
You Won’t Do Better For The Price: This 1980 Chevrolet Malibu Is Too Good To Pass Up!
This was the car I dreamt about in high school, and still lust after. Right here…it’s all here. An A/G-body Malibu coupe, clean body, with a dark-colored exterior any an interior that...
This 1970 Corvette Is The Right Kind Of Retro! Etched Glass, Killer Paint, And A Blown Small Block!
Deep in the piles of car mags that I read through, there was one particular rag from 1978 that really captured my attention. Amazingly enough, it wasn’t because it was a swimsuit issue, it was...
Question Of The Day: What Would It Take For You To Cruise This Ford Fiesta?
I have to fess up: Every time I see one of these late-1970s Ford Fiestas, I get the urge to hack it up into a mini-ute like I did when I was a teenager. Why? Why not! Ford’s globally-successful...
Wanna Roll Like The Colonel? This 1979 Cadillac Eldorado Biarritz Is Former Property Of The Face Behind KFC!
Does anybody outside of The Brougham Society look at a 1979 Cadillac Eldorado and think, “Oh, man, I’ve gotta have that! I don’t care what the price is, I’ll pay it, just sell...
Pro Street Goodness: All This 1971 Ford Mustang Mach 1 Needs Is A Massive Dose Of Power!
I love the big-bodied Mustangs. I love the shape of the front end (which is close enough to the 1969-70 Shelby Mustang for my tastes), I love the SportsRoof silhouette, I love the aggressiveness....
This 700 Horsepower, Nitrous-Infused Pontiac Solstice Is So Good, Even The Vehicle Virgins Can’t Believe It!
GM’s Kappa platform had promise. In usual parts-bin raiding, GM built a roadster platform and spawned two North American market cars, the Pontiac Solstice and Saturn Sky. You could spot the...
This 1978 Ford F-250 Is A Real Highboy! Part Freightliner, Part Show-Quality Truck, Together Is Perfect!
I honestly have no idea how long it’s been since I found a giant truck that is worthy of showcasing for the express purpose of causing Brian to make a noise that is a cross between an excited...
Too Little, Too Late, And Not Street-Legal…Yet: The 2000 Oldsmobile Intrigue SV Is Up For Auction!
In 2000, Oldsmobile was all but dead. They were still selling cars, but General Motors had committed the brand to the scrapyard. As the Auroras, Aleros, Silhouettes, Intrigues and Bravadas rolled off...
Project X Has Returned! The Legendary 1957 Chevrolet Is Inside Hot Rod Garage For Some Mods…
“Project X”, the bright yellow 1957 Chevrolet that has been a staple of automotive project builds for decades, has returned. It needs no introduction, but it might need a little bit of a...
Top 11: Shopping At Mecum’s Portland Auction – Two Days Of Difficult Decisions!
Portland, Oregon isn’t exactly automotive Mecca, but it isn’t the desert, either. There is plenty of gorgeous iron hiding among the redwoods and Douglas Firs, and if you cross the...
This G-body Monte Carlo Is A Nitrous-Fed Monster That ls Barely Controlled!
It’s a nice problem to have when you spend the night at the track trying to tune down the combination you’re running to make the most out of what you’ve got, isn’t it?...
It’s Certainly Patriotic: This 1976 Chevrolet K-10 Scottsdale Bonanza “Spirit of ’76” Edition Is Anything But Subtle!
Chalk up another special edition vehicle that I’d never heard of. It wasn’t uncommon to find special edition cars that celebrated America’s bicentennial in the...
Rough Start: Someone Had Big Plans For This 1978 Chevrolet Malibu At One Point!
Clean, isn’t it? You’d suspect we found a bone-stock, 69,000 mile 1978 Chevrolet Malibu with the F41 suspension and ran with it, and normally, you’d be right: finding one of the...
Rough Start: This 1978 Dodge D-100 Was The Hot Ticket In 1978, And Would Make A Great First Build!
The scene was bleak for performance cars in 1978. Cars were choked out with smog laws, low compression and catalytic converters. Former heavy hitters, like the Pontiac Trans Am, Chevrolet Camaro Z28...