Category Archive: Craigslist Find, MOPAR, TRUCKS
This 1954 Dodge C-Series Is Classic In All Of The Right Senses – Fat Fenders, Wood Bed, And A Warmed-Up DeSoto Hemi!
You don’t see a lot of 1950s Dodge trucks, do you? You can find Ford F-1s, you can find Chevrolets and GMCs all day long, but finding a Dodge is difficult…even if all you’re...
Too Much At The Hit? Watch This Pontiac Firehawk Go Straight For The Sky!
Yanking the wheels at launch is one thing. Realizing that you no longer see the horizon…or the time displays at the end of the track…or trees…yeah, that might be just a step too...
Anybody Like An Old Tow Truck? This 1978 Ford C600 Wrecker Is Cab-Over Greatness!
It’s short, stronger than an ox, with classic lines and a shape that is wholly distinctive. With a big V8 (either an “FT” or a 385-series 370ci big block) hooked to a set of deep...
Flyin’ Brick: Watch This Jeep SRT-8 Show Supercars How It’s Done In The Half-Mile!
The only thing I wanted to see more than this Jeep Grand Cherokee SRT-8 punching through the air at 180 miles an hour was to have a microphone hidden inside of the Porsche 918 that was trailing along...
Bless You, Craigslist: This 1980 Ford Pinto Is Beautiful And Filled With Promise!
You just have to laugh, even a little bit. Nose-high stance, big-and-little slot mags, bronze paint, Ford Pinto. This isn’t a car, it’s a seventh-grade sketch. It’s the Rat Fink...
eBay Find: This 1975 Buick Regal “Free Spirit” Indy Pace Car Isn’t For The Introvert!
Bright colors and gaudy graphics weren’t exactly Buick’s thing in the mid-1970s…or, for that matter, any time. The 1970 Buick GSX came close, but Saturn Yellow and Apollo White were...
Rough Start: This 1987 Chrysler Conquest Is Too Clean To Pass Up! Wide Body, Clean And Ready To Build!
Chrysler and Mitsubishi had a deal going for a long time that saw Mitsubishi-built cars brought into the United States and rebadged as Chrysler, Plymouth and Dodge products. In a move that the...
This 1988 Chevrolet Corvette Is Ready To Go! Save This Fiberglass Pro Street Machine From A Life Of Fairground Cruising!
We were a bit surprised with the kickback we received over whether or not the C4 Corvette has finally made it’s way past the reputation that it’s carried. Quite a few of you were pretty...
With This V8-Swapped Geo Metro, You Can Get To Know Your Self-Preservation Instinct!
“Get To Know Geo.” That was the tagline, wasn’t it? One of two new nameplates added on to General Motors’ long list of brands, Geo was basically a front for GM to bring in...
The “WTF?” Files: Winning At Life With The Coolest Ford Aspire We’ve Ever Seen!
(Photos: Kyle Hendrix via V.I.S.I.T.) The Ford Aspire….yeech, what a miserable little car. What did it do well? It made the Geo Metro look positively radiant by comparison, it sold more...
eBay Find: This 1950 Chevrolet Flatbed Truck Is Our Dream Shop Rig!
It’s really difficult to find the words that can do justice for this 1950 Chevrolet flatbed. Classic doesn’t begin to describe it…the Advanced Design (1947-1955) era of General...
Pro Commuter Perfection: This Supercharged 3.8L Swapped 1987 Chevrolet Cavalier Z24 Is Ready To Rock!
Here’s a phrase I swore years ago I’d never say: “Wow, I really want that 1987 Cavalier!” I don’t hate GM’s best-known J-car like I do Ford Granadas, but in my...
Jay Leno Gets To Shake Down The Predecessor To The 440 Dodge Police Car, The 1961 California Highway Patrol Polara!
Ask a car guy which cop car of all time was the best, and the chances are solid that you’ll hear about one of the late 1960s-early 1970s Dodge or Plymouth Pursuit package cars equipped with the...
eBay Find: This 1965 Chrysler 300L Is The Last Of The Letter Cars – 413 Power And Slab Sides!
It most certainly was a departure from Virgil Exner’s styling traits, and after the disaster that was the 1962 model year, Chrysler Corporation couldn’t put enough distance between...