Category Archive: CHEVY, Craigslist Find
Too Quiet: 1981 Chevrolet Malibu 9C1 For Flying Under The Radar
I recently had a guy pull me to the side to tell me about how he saw a couple of supercars and a built Mustang GT500 ripping down the Interstate near where I live and that he probably saw a...
Upper Class Trash: Vice Grip Garage Wakes Up A 1975 Ford Gran Torino Elite
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: when the special editions start coming out, you know that a manufacturer is desperate to get every last dime they can out of a platform before...
Pop Goes The Frunk-Lid: The C8 Corvette’s Frunk Lid Opens By Itself?
The only time I’ve ever driven a C7 Corvette, I discovered one seriously annoying thing about it: every single solid time I sat down into the driver’s seat, my left knee would hit the...
Rough Start: 1980 Toyota Celica GT Sunchaser by Griffith
For our younger readers: ever look at stuff made after about 1973 and wonder why you can find sunroofs, T-tops, targa tops and the like, but nobody outside of the biggest Buicks, Oldsmobiles and...
Colonnade CPR: Bringing A 1973 Chevrolet Chevelle SS454 Back To The Outside World
When I first saw it, I hated it. When I saw it with wheels that weren’t wearing Chevrolet Celebrity hubcaps, I started to come around. When I bought it in 2007, it spit the harmonic balancer...
Rough Start: 1973 AMC Hornet – Call It The Mongrel!
Does that seem like I’m already picking on this little Hornet, calling it “The Mongrel”? I don’t think so. Part of me is looking at this car with truth: it’s rough...
Random Car Review: The 1980 Ferrari Pinin, The Four-Door Performance Sedan That Never Had A Prayer
Looking around in today’s market, the two-door car is on the critically endangered list. Four-doors have finally made their way to the mainstream, and fast, potent versions of four-door sedans...
How Would You Build It: 1989 Shelby Dakota
Seeing Carroll Shelby jump ship from Ford around 1970 was no surprise. The direction that the Shelby Mustang program was headed towards was pissing him off more and more. His GT350 and GT500 were...
Cool Vanilla: 1990 Dodge Ram D150 Muscle Truck, As It Should Have Been
Rewind back to 1990 for a minute. The truck of the moment, as it had been ever since it debuted, is the updated GM C/K pickup truck. Lifted, slammed, name it, GM trucks were killing it. They were the...
Rough Start: 1968 Dodge Dart Sedan – The Yellow Brick Road To Fun
In the 1990s, Mopar Action magazine built up a 1969 Plymouth Valiant four-door, dubbed it the “Green Brick” and proceeded to road-race the dog snot out of the car. It competed at many...
Classic YouTube: Chrysler Wasn’t The Only One Messing With Turbines – Check Out This Coal-Powered Oldsmobile!
General Motors walked into the Eighties in a kind of bi-polar state of mind. On the positive side, the downsized B and A/G body cars were a solid strike, the truck line was going well, the Camaro and...
Shock and Awe: How A Borrowed Yenko Camaro Became A Record Run At The Firecracker Mile
Borrowing the car…if that isn’t a phrase that will make a gearhead nervous, I don’t know what one is. We tend to view our four-wheeled contraptions as an extension of ourselves, our wards, the...
Show Some Class: 1970 Buick Skylark GS 455 In Black
For 1970, GM had an A-body road burner for whatever your personality type happened to be. Straight-up, no frills and ready to kick ass? LS6 454 Chevelle. As wild and flashy as you wanted to be? GTO...
Money No Object: 1963 Dodge 330 Two-Door Clone
There are two points about this car that need to be mentioned. One, this is a Chrysler B-body. Same as a Road Runner, same as a Charger, same as a Cordoba. Yeah, the styling couldn’t be any...