Category Archive: BUICK / OLDS / PONTIAC, FUNNY STUFF, Videos
Roadkill! The Guys Freeze Their Bits Off Delivering A Buick Wagon To A Fan
There is one thing I know, unconditionally, about Freiburger and Finnegan: they are not happy men when it comes to bitter cold weather. To be honest, neither am I, but when they were helping me with...
BangShift Project Files: Meet The Pontiac GT-37, A Poverty-Spec Pontiac That’s Getting A Second Lease On Life
The Pontiac GT-37 falls into the same vein as the Oldsmobile Rally 350 Cutlass, Buick GS350, and more-or-less the “Heavy Chevy” Chevelle…they all were GM’s short-term answer...
Smash And Grab: These Thieves Used A Land Rover To Steal A Ford Escort Mk1
Car thieves are not like the glamorous Memphis Raines character that Nicolas Cage played in the Gone in 60 Seconds re-boot movie. Instead they are pure blunt-force-trauma, using whatever tactic is...
Check Out This Footage of Bill “Grumpy” Jenkins Running At The 1968 NHRA Nationals – Gear Jamming With A Cigar
“Grumpy” Jenkins’ status as an NHRA legend is uncontested. Wheeling a number of violent Chevrolets, Jenkins was an engineer first, racer second, and tolerated no fools at the line....
Ebay Find: This 1977 Dodge Aspen Wagon Seems Nicer Than New But Has Never Been Restored
I’m fascinated with survivors, the cars that are still tooling along thirty, forty, fifty or more years along pretty much as they were. They usually aren’t perfect, only some are pretty,...
Unhinged: The Satisfaction Of Vindication…or, Thank You, Regular Car Reviews, For Showing What A 1999 Blazer Really Is
Shortly after joining the Army in 2001, I had come to the conclusion that I needed to focus on saving the money I was making and to become more a more responsible adult than I had been prior to...
Historical Footage: Car and Track’s Test Of The 1973 Buick Century Gran Sport Stage 1 455
By 1973 it seemed that only Pontiac was still in the business of making a stout big-block-powered car with the Super Duty Trans Am. And before you start, yes, I know that the Pontiac mills...
The Entire Story Of The Very First Chevrolet Camaro – From Pilot Test Program, To Dragstrip Terror, To Restored, This Video Shows It All
There’s always “the first”, no matter what happens. In the case of a typical new model of automobile, the first is a beta, a test of sorts. You have to build one to set up how the...
Freiburger Builds Up Hot Rod Garage’s Late-Model Mustang Into A Budget Autocrosser!
If there is one car in my recent history that is near and dear to my heart, it’s the 2005 Ford Mustang GT that I traded in for the Angry Grandpa Chrysler a couple of years ago. The Mustang was...
The Real-Life Bravado Banshee And The 56-Year-Old Grandmother Who Won The Custom Viper [Video]
We covered the eBay auction of the Dodge Viper SRT-10 Bravado Banshee when the car was on eBay last July. It wasn’t too surprising that the car didn’t sell, even with the bidding cresting...
Footage of Solaris Motorsports’ EuroV8 Camaro Tearing Around Monza – An Orphaned Race Car Screaming In Anger
Unfortunately, this is a kind of bittersweet video. This Camaro has been over in Italy for quite some time, running in the SuperStars and EuroV8 racing series. Unfortunately, that entire series has...
Unhinged: “What Is The Strangest Combination You Could Think Up That Could Work?”
I’ll preface this with an apology: I’m running on fumes and have been for the last few days. Little to no sleep combined with hours staring at a computer screen have left me looking less...
Rough Start: For The Truck Guys, How About a 1962 Ford Unibody?
For the most part, the Rough Start features are meant to be cars that you could drive with little to no work necessary. But if you’re focused on one particular vehicle, maybe you might be out...
Ford And Petty’s Garage Team Up To Produce The Limited Edition Petty’s Garage Mustang, And One Was Already Sold…
The Ford Mustang spawns “special editions” better than any other car currently in production (except maybe for the Bugatti Veyron, but that’s a completely different ball game). We...