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Category Archive: Craigslist Find, MOPAR

Rough Start: Want A Cop Car For Under $5,000 That Isn’t A Crown Vic? How About A Plymouth Volare A38?

Cop cars have a special allure all to themselves. They are part family sedan, part muscle car, have to be ready to be a demolition derby car and be able to take the kinds of abuse that design...

eBay Find: A Plum Crazy Purple, 383/4-speed Equipped…1976 Plymouth Volare!

Ebay is wonderful and harmful at the same time. There are days where I get some of my best inspiration from surfing the listings and then there are days where I paw through the cars up on the block...

The “Vader” Trans Am’s Last Run With A Flat Hood…Stock-Bodied Sucker Maker!

You have to love a black Pontiac Trans Am that is legitimately fast. I know the colors are supposed to be white/blue, or black/gold, but all-black, especially on the third-gen cars, just suits...

Money No Object: A 1955 Chrysler C-300 Packing A 468ci Hemi And An Overdrive Auto!

The 1950s were mostly notable for an overabundance of chrome and a bit of taste lost to the ideals of the jet age, but some beautiful designs did come out of the work. Chrysler’s “Forward...

CONFIRMED: The Jeep Grand Cherokee “Trackhawk” Will Be In Production By The End Of 2017!

In this day and age, is there really a place for a large sports-utility vehicle with at least one, if not two monster V8s under the hood? Is that really practical? Is that really necessary? With all...

BangShift Project Files: A Rough Chevy Longbed Is Being Brought To Life By One Of Our Resident Mad Mechanics!

Many things are said to haunt the forests of Western Washington. If you are near the village of Olalla, you might hear the victims of Starvation Heights on a chilly night. If you hang around the Hoh...

Rumor Mill: FCA Has Green-Lighted A Wrangler Pickup. Don’t Rejoice Just Yet, But Get Ready…

Want a Jeep pickup truck? Have been thinking of nothing but a Jeep pickup truck since the Gladiator concept came out a few years ago? Well, we have some news. We will warn that there is still a grain...

A Jacksonville, Florida Mustang-Only Junkyard Is Selling Off Their Collection – 38 Fox And Newer Mustangs For $3500! Who Needs Parts?

Thirty-eight Ford Mustangs are being sold off in one shot from a Florida junkyard that is shutting down operations. The cars range from early Foxes to at least a couple of New Edge cars, and are in...

Take A Close Look At An Australian Legend, The Holden Torana A9X

In America we had the death of the muscle car in the early 1970s due to the combined efforts of the insurance industry, the onset of emissions controls, and a shift in tastes from fast and flashy to...

Breaking News: Buick Unveils The Avista Concept Coupe – 400 Horsepower Twin-Turbo V6, Rear Wheel Drive, And It’s A True Hardtop!

(All photos: General Motors) The name says Avista, but with a thumper twin turbocharged V6 powering the rear wheels on Buick’s new beauty, there is zero question where the inspiration came...

Hot Rod Garage’s 12-Valve Swapped Dodge Gets Some Suspension Rehab And Gets Rid Of The Peg Leg!

Just dumping in an engine powerful enough to stall the Earth’s rotation is not the final answer to a project car…in fact, on it’s own, just adding power without addressing such...

eBay Find: A 1973 Chevrolet Chevelle Laguna That Needs More Miles Put On The Clock!

Pointing out that the 1973-77 GM A-bodies’ rise in popularity is simply a formality at this point. The truth is that they are roomy handlers that can be built into a stomping, roomy muscle car...

Not A Bad Day At Work: Pitting The Corvette ZO6 Against The Dodge Viper ACR

The Dodge Viper has always made a strange competitor against the Corvette. On paper, it seemed to make sense: two American high-performance rear-drive two seaters that had aspirations of taking on...

Would You Rather: Which Overly-Enthusiastic 1980s Lukewarm Hatch Would You Take Home?

The mid-1980s was the time when auto manufacturers cautiously, carefully and nervously picked up the book of performance and started flipping through the dusty pages to see if there was a way that...