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eBay Find: This 1957 Chrysler New Yorker Wagon Comes Up A Bit Short In Our Eyes

Chrysler’s “Forward Look” lineup for 1957 were gorgeous to look at and were a far cry from just a few years prior. With Elwood Engel on board whipping up designs sharp enough to...

Burnout Monday: Start Your Day Off With A Drifting General Lee From Italy!

If you’ve seen even one episode of The Dukes of Hazzard, you’d believe that the only way to drive a 1969 Dodge Charger on Vector wheels was sideways on dirt. Well…that and the...

Best Of 2015: It’s An Imperial, An El Camino, And A Dually, All In One!

Of all of the weird stuff I’ve seen over the years, this one is in the running for the Top 10. Hell, it just might make the top 3, because I genuinely don’t know what to make of it. The...

Best of 2015: Man Had Thunderbird’s Turn Signal Stalk Surgically Removed 51 Years After The Wreck That Lodged It Into His Arm

Arthur Lampett’s 1963 Thunderbird suffered a catastrophic collision with a truck fifty-one years ago. Lampett survived the collision, the Ford did not. While his broken hip was the main focus...

Best Of 2015: This “1969 Charger” Can Easily Become Yours, If You Have A Howitzer To Trade

First things first…I hate to be the one to correct the owner of this Mopar, but you aren’t looking at a Dodge Charger of any vintage. Though, with that being said, it really doesn’t...

Best Of 2015: This RWD V8-converted Chevrolet Cavalier Is An Evil Little Sleeper From The Great White North

What is in the water in Quebec? First we find that twin-engined freak of a Pontiac Grand Prix, then we come across this: a Chevrolet Cavalier Z24 that’s been converted to rear-wheel-drive,...

Best Of 2015: Can You Spot Every Way This Homebuilt…Um…Thing Is Wrong?

You are not just looking at a Challenger with a Chevrolet bow tie in the grille. I promise you that I would actually be happier to see that. No, I mean it. See, this was sent to me via Facebook as...

Question Of The Day: What Is The Most Obscure Special Edition Car You Can Remember?

“Special Edition”. Call me jaded if you will, but that phrase is synonymous with “we need to sell a ton more of these things to break even on the engineering costs!” and has...

Best Of 2015: This 1980 Chevrolet C-10 Looks Innocent Enough, Doesn’t It? Don’t Trust The Quiet One…

(Editor’s Note: This 1980 Chevrolet has to be the best Craigslist find we saw this year…mostly for the Farmer John looks coupled with a sledgehammer under the hood, but because a reader...

Caption This: Somehow, Some Way, This Has To Be Rebeldryver’s Fault.

Would you want to be a stretch limo driver? I would only do the job if it involved a route that went between Topeka, KansasĀ and Denver, because the only place that operating a real stretch limo...

Petrolicious Takes A Look At A One-Family, Well-Traveled 1970 Dodge Challenger Hemi R/T

Here’s a numbers lesson for you today: in 1970, Dodge cranked out 76,935 Challengers for production. Out of all of those cars, 137 of them were 426 Hemi-powered R/T hardtops with a four-speed....

Best Of 2015: This C3 Corvette Is Hiding A Secret That Would Send Both Vette And Ford Fans Into Fits – Meet The Cobravette!

“The devil is in the details,” we’ve heard over and over again. The point of that statement is to slow down and fully appreciate what it is that you are looking at instead of taking...

Best Of 2015: Wickedness In Silver – The “Sudden Death” 1975 Ford Mustang II

Everybody knows the feeling of wanting to be on top. Many try, many fail, some succeed. What a lot of people fail to recognize is that failure is part of the program. If you don’t fail, you...

Wheels And Tires, A Disc Brake Conversion, And An Engine That Won’t Self-Destruct Go Into Hot Rod Garage’s Demon 340!

We’ve gotten to see the full transformation of Tony Angelo’s 1971 Dodge Demon 340, from a non-runner that had been in storage for a long time to the moment where the 340 itself decided to...

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