Category Archive: CHEVY, eBay Find
Springtime Green: It’s Not Everyday A 1973 Chevrolet Chevelle SS454 Pops Up!
Let’s see here: the trees are budding out, the grass is starting to get tall enough to mow, the dandelions are bringing some kind of color to the yard, and I got my first bit of pulse-racing...
BangShift Question Of The Day: Should Brands Get Their Own Engines Again?
In 1977, General Motors experienced blowback when Oldsmobile owners noticed that their “Rocket 350” engines were, in fact, Chevrolet blocks. Buick V6s powered seemingly everything. The...
Crown Vic Drifting: Project Neighbor Hangs The Tail Out Like A Boss
Ford fought tooth-and-nail to fight downsizing in the late 1970s. GM had shrunk the Impala and Caprice and walked away smelling like a rose. The race was on…who would be the next to shrink...
RacingJunk Find: 1971 Mercury Comet With A 347…Street Car Material!
Junior supercars were the smartest move that the Big Four made at the turn of the 1970s. Insurance companies had targeted the popular and brash musclecars of lore and were bent on punishing the...
Big Boss: Chuckles Garage’s “Old Smokey” Ford Beds In Hoonigan’s New Burn Yard
So, Hoonigan got a new place where they can enjoy all of the automotive hijinks and delinquent acts they can tolerate without pissing off the neighbors. Irwindale Speedway gave them a plot to set up...
The Ripper: This NASCAR/Dodge R5P7 Engine Needs To Be Re-Homed!
In case any of you were wondering what happened with the Raven Imperial since the last update I put out, don’t worry…you haven’t missed anything. Between the holidays, losing the...
Unhinged: This 1977 Chevrolet Camaro Is Giving Me Bad, Bad Ideas
One of the biggest misconceptions I deal with when it comes to readers, friends, and the like is that I’m all-Mopar. Yeah, I’ve owned a pretty sizable roster of Chrysler products so far...
Skin Grafting: Replacing A Rotted Trunk Floor In Two Steps: Cut Out Bad, Weld In Good
If there is one thing that bothers me about living in the Midwest, it’s rust. Remember, my roots are further west than Kentucky…Colorado has plenty of good metal to work with, Arizona has...
Tojan Horse: Take A Ride In The One Pontiac Tojan That Had Sincere Supercar Power!
The Pontiac Tojan is one of those cars that you hear about, see, and immediately write off as a kit car…especially if you see one with the rear spoiler that looks to have been stolen off of a...
Another One Bites The Dust: The Auction Corvette’s Second Mill Simply Stops Playing!
The Auction Corvette that Cleetus has been messing with this year has been a fun watch for us…he has been trying to keep this C6 together ever since he first saw it in person. How has that...
Rough Start: Could This 1978 Chevrolet Monza Spyder Live Up To The Race-Car Hype?
How do you take the Chevrolet Vega, a car universally panned for being one of GM’s best ideas, executed so poorly that it almost defies belief, and rebuild from the ashes? The Monza. More or...
Then Vs. Now: Putting The Very First Cummins Ram Against The Latest
I’ll be the first in line to say that trucks of the last two decades are both leaps and bounds over their older forms, and yet somehow are worse in many, many regards. We certainly are not...
Money No Object: This 1967 Oldsmobile Toronado Just Oozes Class!
I am an absolute sucker for the first generation of the GM E-body platform. Ideally, I prefer a 1967 Buick Riviera (only RWD E-body, first year for the 430ci V8 and disc brakes up front) but I...
