Category Archive: CAR FEATURES, OTHER, Videos
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...
And The Angels Sing: Listen To This Stock Mustang GT350 Book It From 0-170 MPH!
Ever since Ford dropped the bomb that is the Mustang Shelby GT350 last year, everybody’s main course is not so much the power…that was a given…but the absolutely spectacular noise...
Question Of The Day: Will The Crapboxes Of Yesterday Become The Collectables Of Today?
GM J-cars, Ford Escorts, K-cars…hell, even the AMC/Renault Medallion. All cars from the early 1980s that have a reputation for being cracker boxes, none of which really have a following past...
Sleeper Supreme! This 1985 Chevrolet El Camino Looks Like A Clean Driver, But Is Packing 427 Power Under The Hood!
Here’s how this one panned out: as Lohnes and I sit in Maine cranking out stories, I decided to paw through the Mecum Kissimmee auction that is coming up later this month to find some iron to...
Supra-Powered Corvette. Yup, Here It Is…Because How Can You Argue With 1100 Horsepower?
Hey, look at the bright side, folks: it isn’t another LS swap! Nope, instead we have one of the heavy hitters from the land of the rising sun sitting inside this clean Corvette, where a 572ci...
Classic YouTube: Giving A Tired, Rusty And MOT-Failing Jeep Cherokee A Proper Sendoff
Not every car is a Rolls-Royce, or Duesenberg, or 1957 Chevrolet, or Hemi ‘Cuda…most are pedestrian tools that have a limited life, and once that life is used up, they generally hit the...
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...
