Category Archive: CHEVY, TECH, Videos
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...
A Bracket Bomber From The Day They Bought It, This 1977 Chevrolet Caprice Coupe Is On The Number No Matter What!
I walked through the staging lanes of Beech Bend, looking over the cars that were waiting to head out for their tuning passes, when I saw a shape that is etched into my memory: a...
Quick Review: 2016 Chevrolet Camaro RS 2LT Four-Cylinder – How Does GM’s Pony Car Stack Up With Only Half Of The Deck?
In the fall of 1981, the new-for-1982 Chevrolet Camaro offered up an option that pretty much told you how bad the situation was: the LQ9, better known as Pontiac’s “Iron Duke”...
Motor Trend Tests The Chevrolet SS Sedan Out, Compares It To A Fifteen-Year-Old BMW, Doesn’t Bother Testing New BMWs
Up front: the video is going to be exactly what you are expecting from Motor Trend. Jason Cammisa will drive a car, Randy Pobst will show you how hard the car can be driven, and you’ll hear a...
Morning Symphony: Beating On New Chevrolet Camaro ZL1s around the Nurburgring Was Never Mentioned At Career Day
So far, I haven’t worked one single job that would line up with what my guidance counselor told me I’d wind up becoming. To be fair, most of the jobs I’ve had didn’t line up...
152 Miles An Hour At Indy, Semi-Autonomously – Watch As Sam Schmidt Run Indy Using Only His Eyes And Breath!
152 miles an hour around the Indianapolis Motor Speedway in 2016 should register much of a reaction normally, but in the case of this black Corvette Z06, it’s a milestone. Driving the car is...
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...
