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Category Archive: CHEVY, FUNNY STUFF, Videos

Roadkill! The Guys Take Their Circle-Track Racer And Slap Most Of A Monte Carlo On Top, Then Street-Drive The Whole Thing!

It is honestly quite impressive that Finnegan and Freiburger actually had a car that the legal team at TEN refused to let them drive on the street. A few years ago, they had bought an amateur-level...

Best Of 2015: The One Chevy Lumina Z34 That You Do Not Want To Provoke – It’s Really A 4th Gen Trans Am! Meet The Z57 Lumina!

Does anybody really remember the Chevrolet Lumina with positive feelings? Nope, not really. The new-for-1990 Lumina, in coupe form anyways, was the replacement for the G-body Chevrolet Monte Carlo,...

Best Of BS 2015: Kenny Reece’s “3-to-1” 427-powered Supermodified

In the quest for racing supremacy, creative engineering becomes the tool of the imaginative and certain cars push (and sometimes, exceed) the boundaries of the established rules. You know several...

Best Of BS 2015: Happiness Is Running A Snotty F100 Through An Autocross Like You Own The Place

This is pretty much what a Craftsman Truck would look like circa 1971, and that’s awesome to us. This Ford F100 makes the right noises, dances properly, and rips through the cones of this Texas...

Best Of BS 2015: The Kibbetech-built Crown Victoria Prerunner Is Stirring Up Ideas In Our Heads

Soak in that visual for a second: a 1990 Ford LTD Crown Victoria prerunner. Everything but four wheel drive is present and accounted for: ‘cage, flared out fenders, suspension with good travel,...

Best Of BS 2015: Here’s All The Fun You Could Be Having If You Jammed A Blown 5.4L V8 Into A Crown Victoria

“Quickcrownvic” took one look at his Ford Crown Victoria and sighed. The 4.6L V8 just wasn’t doing the trick anymore. At maybe 240 horsepower on a good day, there just wasn’t...

Daring To Be Different? How About Two Different Takes On The Ford Ranger?

All it takes to turn a regular, run of the mill, don’t think twice about it vehicle into something pretty special is talent and a vision. And if there is one vehicle that needs a vision,...

Best of BS 2015: Short Street Rod Shop Tour: This 1955 Ford Fairlane Street Freak Has A Street Racing Past And A Great Future Ahead Of It!

Karma is a beautiful thing. At last year’s Holley Hot Rod Reunion, I shot Jensen Masters’ altered-wheelbase 1964 Rambler American as one of my first feature shoots. I was happy to have...

Best Of BS 2015: This 1985 Mercury Grand Marquis Packs A Frame Swap, Modern Running Gear, And A Style All It’s Own – Meet The Mod Box

As the champion of both 1980s restomods and the “dare to be different” guy, you have no idea how taken I was to see a Mercury Grand Marquis coupe in black and chrome, dumped down on...

Gotta Do Better Than That, Old Man: Here’s A Lesson On What Ugly REALLY Is! Meet The Mitsuoka Orochi Evangelion Edition!

It wouldn’t be the holidays if someone in the family wasn’t arguing, would it? Well, sorry, kids, we don’t mean for you to see us fight, but it seems that Uncle Brian decided to...

You Want Weird But Are On A Budget? How About This 1964 Plymouth Valiant For $3500?

I have to say I’m impressed…after a vacation with the family, for Brian to come back and think of me when he is writing about a car he found online for nearly $70,000…well, I have...

Rough Start: Stretching The Budget A Bit, But Where Else Are You Going To Find A Convertible Ford Crown Victoria?

If we ever stretch past the budget in one of our Rough Start features, it is because we feel that the car is close enough to the spirit of the budget to warrant a look, and that’s where we find...

Sticker Price Shock: You Can Buy New Heads For A Ferrari Lampredi V-12 Engine…At $60,000 A Set!

Ferrari has always been synonymous with expensive maintenance. Even if you get lucky and find a decently priced 308 GTS or a 4ooi, you will still pay out of just about every orifice you possess to...

Last Minute Christmas Shopping: A Rare Kenny Bernstein Mercury LN7 Flopper-Bodied Go Kart

Just a few days until Christmas and you’re just NOW shopping? Tsk, tsk. You should know that the best gifts are the ones purchased after you’ve battled maddening hoards of shoppers while...