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Category Archive: CHEVY, Craigslist Find

Get In Touch With Your Inner War Boy With This 1970 Chevrolet Chevelle – Truck Frame, Five-Speed And Nitrous!

For once, I’m speechless. I have nothing to offer up for this 1970 Chevrolet Chevelle. It’s both an affront to everything I know about a Chevelle, and yet unrivaled in it’s...

Rough Start: Splashing Through The Slush In A Ready-To-Go 1993 Ford Ranger Splash

The itch for a four-wheel-drive has been appearing again, as it usually does during the beginning of winter. Taking the hot rod out for snow donuts is fine, but driving it every day when the weather...

This V8-Swapped One-Of-None Volvo 145 Wagon Is All Of The Awesome!

It’s pretty safe to say that in this day and age, we can all agree that station wagons rule. And it’s also pretty safe to say that two door station wagons rule harder. With that said, V8...

Unicorn Sighting: The 400/4-speed 1974 Pontiac Grand Am Is Back Up For Sale! Moonshine Runners, Your Car Has Arrived!

Dear Santa: It’s been a while since we talked, fat man. And let’s just say that I’ve got more than a bone to pick with you. Every year I’ve asked for one thing, a car that has...

Rough Start: This 1984 Chevrolet Caprice Coupe Is Sleeper Material…Get That 305 Out And Get The Shoehorn Ready!

You have to love finding a car like this: kind of desirable, kind of not, well cared for, one or maybe two owner, untouched for years. It’s a blank canvas…there isn’t much damage to...

Rough Start: Try Something A Little Different – A 1973 International Wagonmaster!

It’s not uncommon nowadays to see families using extended-cab or crew-cab pickups as the family car. You have seating for at least four and a bed…what’s not to like?  It...

The WTF? Files: Check Out This Beast – Part Dodge Magnum, Part Ford Ranger!

The Dodge Magnum station wagon did come with available all-wheel-drive from the factory, essentially Mercedes-Benz’s 4MATIC system. It was popular in places where snow is an actual concern, or...

Holy Overkill: This 1972 Ford Pinto Looks Ready To Take On Everybody!

Go on…mention the “humble” or “lowly” Ford Pinto. Go ahead…make you “ka-boom!” jokes, hide your lighters just in case, and “accidentally”...

Rough Start: Cool Can Be In The Last Place You Expect It, Like This 1979 Ford Courier!

The Ford Courier…wow. There’s a throwback. Growing up in Washington State, we had a neighbor lady that owned a white Courier, and I can’t be any more blunt about how much I despised...

This 1981 Mercedes 450SLC Roller Looks Ready For A Fight – What Would You Power It With?

I like seeing different cars doing things you’d never expect them to be at. Oddly enough, the Mercedes R107-platform SL coupes fit two roles…the 500SL rally prototypes that may or may not...

Would You Rather, The Dirt-Cheap Hot Rod Buick Edition! Regal Versus Roadmaster for $2,500!

Buick has always had a real strange relationship with performance. Cars like the Riviera, Gran Sport, GSX, Grand National, and the GNX give Buick performance credit that at times, the company...

Begging To Be Romped On: This Five-Speed, 5.4-Swapped Ford Crown Victoria Is The Barge Of Our Dreams!

The Ford Panther platform has been dead for five years now, and most people only acknowledge it’s loss when they realized that they needed to start memorizing another set of headlights to...

Rough Start: This 1963 Chevrolet Biscayne Is The Cheapest Of The Cheap!

If you had the money and all the time in the world to go hunting for the perfect project car, something tells me that nearly ten out of ten times, you’d head straight for the Southwest....

Sick Of LS-Swapped Nissans? How About A Toyota With A Small-Block Ford?

Drift events. Cars and Coffee. LS Fest. Hell, the kid down the street is probably ripping the guts out of a Nissan 180SX or 240SX and is preparing to jam it full of late-model GM V8. And if the...