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Category Archive: CHEVY, Craigslist Find

This 468-cubic-inch Chevrolet Cavalier Is A High-School Hot Rod Sketch Come To Life!

The moment I laid eyes on this Chevrolet Cavalier, I had a flashback: I was sitting in Ms. Jameson’s math class, first thing in the morning, bored out of my skull. In lieu of revisiting the...

eBay Find: This Starsky And Hutch Gran Torino Is The Real Deal! It Was In Both The TV Show And The Movie, And Is For Sale!

Paul Glaser hated the car from the moment when the production company for “Starsky and Hutch”  introduced him to it. The 2B Bright Red Ford Gran Torino, sitting on slot mags, with a...

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Hot-Lapping: This Half-Mile Corvette Catches Fire After A 180+ MPH Run!

Everything about this C6 Corvette Z06 is awesome: the stance, the 1,000 horsepower supercharged mill under the hood, the exhaust note that could wake the dead, the ability to run 181 in the...

This Ford XE Falcon Doesn’t Look Like The 9-second Quarter-Mile Car That It Is!

If it weren’t for the small aftermarket hood scoop on top of this Ford Falcon, you’d be forgiven for thinking that it was just a wicked-up street car. It makes a nice, cammed idle and...

eBay Find: This 1982 Dodge Power Ram 350 Wrecker Isn’t Restored, Just Well-Worn!

When did pickup-based tow trucks disappear? As a kid, I remember seeing Fords, Dodges and GM trucks kitted out with wrecker units, massive push bumpers, and custom painted logos all over the place....

We Found A 1984 Ford XE Falcon With A 460 Under The Hood For Sale In Boulder, Colorado…Interested?

Many people are aware that Ford built some awesome cars in Australia that we didn’t get here in the States. While we built Mavericks, Granadas, Fairmonts, and such, Ford Australia stuck with...

Money No Object: This 2009 Dodge Challenger SRT-8 Has Us Drooling…572ci Hemi Goodness!

Finding the words for this 2009 Dodge Challenger SRT-8 that are printable is an honest exercise in restraint. From the supercharged 572 cubic inch Hemi under the hood to the 20×15″ wheels...

Money No Object: If You Want A Brand New 1957 Jaguar XKSS Roadster, You Better Hurry…And Have Deep Pockets!

At the end of the 1956 racing season, Jaguar pulled out of factory competition, but faced a problem: there were still a handful of completed and partially completed Jaguar D-Type racing cars that...

Roadkill! Old Meets New When Harry The Tow Truck Meets Pigpen, The Junkyard GMC!

Given the typical run of success that Freiburger and Finnegan have on their Roadkill adventures, we are kind of amazed that they only just now have gotten around to picking up an actual, honest tow...

Rough Start: Finding A 1973 Pontiac LeMans This Clean Is Getting Harder To Come By!

At the risk of sounding like every hipster I’ve ever met, sometimes it’s better that you own something that nobody has seen in forever. You can strike upon the nostalgia the people have...

Hellcat On Ice! Watch As Exclusive Cars Takes Mopar’s Mental Patient To 170 Miles An Hour On Ice In Sweden!

When Brian Lohnes, a man who tends to keep his comparisons realistic, willfully correlated his time in a Dodge Challenger Hellcat to the perfect drug, that should have said it all. When every car rag...

Rental Car Heaven: Ford, Shelby American And Hertz Team Are Bringing Back The Shelby GT-H!

(Lead Photo: Shelby American) “Rent-a-Racer”. The first one was the 1966 Shelby G.T. 350H, a package group of 1,001 Shelby Mustangs allotted to the Hertz rental agency for their Sports...

This Corvette-Powered Pontiac Fiero Can Be Your Autocross Sleeper!

The Pontiac Fiero is getting it’s just due after years of being derided as a throwaway sports car, and that is honestly a good thing. Hulki Aldikacti’s design was ambitious, but was...

Up, Up And Away! This Mustang Stands On The Bumper And Still Takes The Win!

There are wheel stands, and then there are those moments at the launch of a race that you suspect that the driver might have stepped a touch too far over the line of caution. In the case of this Fox...