Category Archive: Craigslist Find
Would You Rather: Would You Go For The Traditional Camaro Or The SBC-Swapped Jaguar XJS?
Two doors, long hoods, short tails, designs that have aged rather well, even if they aren’t the pinnacle year for the model, and a small-block Chevrolet 350 of some sort under the hood....
A Hornet By Any Other Name: What Would You Do With This 1978 AMC Concord?
Park an AMC Hornet and AMC Concord side-by-side and you tell me that the Concord deserved to be called a “new” car. AMC didn’t have a budget strong enough to take on the upcoming...
Rough Start: How About A 1972 Chevrolet Flatbed That Will Be A Bit More Affordable Than That Fast And Furious Truck?
I don’t mean to post two of the same vehicle on the same day, but this 1972 Chevrolet was just too good to pass up. I’m on a bit of a truck kick and you just can’t go wrong with a...
The Minivan We’d Take: This 1992 Chevy Astro Is Clean, AWD, And Has Been V8 Swapped!
For the 1980s and into the 1990s, the vehicle of choice was the minivan. Thanks to the foresight of Lee Iacocca, the idea of shrinking down the cargo van into something the average family could use...
Am I Horribly Sick For Wanting This Chevette? Wouldn’t You Love To Own It?
Okay, I know I sometimes march to the beat of a slightly different drummer, but call this my weakness that makes me connect with McTaggart. He likes all the weird Mopars that nobody in their right...
Rough Start: Make Your Own All-Wheel-Drive Angry Grandpa Clone With This Budget-Friendly 2006 Chrysler 300C!
Ever since we made it an official project car back in the summer of 2014, Project Angry Grandpa, my daily-driver Chrysler 300C, has gone from your basic used-car-lot refugee into a dual-mode machine....
Rough Start: This Low-Mile 1984 Pontiac Grand Prix Is Just Begging For An Engine Swap…
The G-body variation of the Pontiac Grand Prix was the whipping boy of the lot. Whereas Chevy, Buick, Oldsmobile and even GMC embraced some semblance of performance (yes, GMC…the Diablo),...
Wanna Build A Fox Body Race Car? This Is THE Best Start Online.
Before you look at the pictures and start griping at me, keep in mind that most of the time even a street/race car is going to have so much stuff removed from it before it ever hits the road or the...
Rare Forced Air: This 1980 Monte Carlo Turbo Is Not Something You See Every Day!
Back when I was in high school in the late 1990’s, my friend Greg had a thing for GM G-Body cars of the Chevrolet variety. He had a 1986 Monte Carlo that we called the “PseudoSport”...
Money No Object: This 1982 Puma GTB/S2 Is A Brazilian Original, With An American Powertrain Swap, In Australia
Brazil is where you go to see tiny pickups based on small cars and hopped-up Ford Mavericks, isn’t it? Well, true…but Brazil has also made their own cars at one point or another, usually...
Still Buried Up To Your Bum In Snow? You Need A Toyota Land Cruiser On Tracks!
We are in that in-between period in the seasons, between the last icy gasps of winter and the first welcome signs of spring. It’s that time when the deciduous trees are starting to bud out,...
Grandpa’s Got A Brand New Bag: This 1998 Lincoln Town Car Is A Monster!
The Lincoln Town Car…the pride and joy of limo drivers, airport “black car” operations, low-ranking politicians, and that nice retired couple up the street. Towards the end, the big...
Rough Start: A 1971 Buick GS350 Under Budget? Let’s Just Say It’s “Well Used”
It’s a bit of a challenge to pick a favorite GM A-body from 1968-1972. They all are so good! Chevelle, LeMans, Skylark, Cutlass, and all of the performance models based off of those...
Truly A One Of One, This 1989 Mercury Sable Convertible Is Interesting, But Is it Good?
The hype that surrounded the Ford Taurus/Mercury Sable in it’s gestation begs belief. Ford hadn’t had the smoothest of times in the beginning of the Eighties. While the Fox platform had...