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Category Archive: Car Features, CHEVY, eBay Find

eBay Find: The 1983 Stiletto Camaro, or How To Fake A Ferrari Without A Fiero

I’m not sure if you can blame this on any particular mind-altering substance on the planet. At some point, while studying the new-for-1982 Camaro, a group of car guys saw lines similar to the...

Everybody’s A Comedian: Bid Now On This Genuine 1969 Camaro Gas Tank On Ebay!

The spoof ad. We’ve seen these on Craigslist before, where someone with comedy chops puts an absolute crap-can of a car up for sale with a killer writeup to go along with it. This particular...

Ebay Find: Former Hooker Header Project Car Chevette, Featured In Hot Rod Magazine

It ain’t the Bad Seed Chevette, but it’s a nice runner-up prize. This 1976 Chevrolet Chevette was featured in the November 1982 issue of Hot Rod Magazine as part of an engine-swap...

Ebay Find: This Turbocharged Big-Block Dodge A100 Is The Fine Line Between Sleeper And Insanity

Seeing a Dodge A100 isn’t a common event outside of a car show. If you do, you might see a dead stocker puttering along somewhere in the Southwest, or maybe someone held onto their ’70s...

Blog War: One Last Round…The Long-Roof War Has To End

He won’t stop. I don’t know how the hell he does it, but he just won’t stop. I don’t know if he’s paying me back for a Vegas adventure from a few years ago, or if this...

Blog War: The Last Of The Traditional Longroofs, This Buick Roadmaster Estate Brings All The Modern Conveniences To The Table

So Lohnes decided to reply to the Ford wagon I offered up with a copycat version of the car that started it all. A 1973 Oldsmobile and a 1975 Pontiac aren’t that far apart from each other, and...

Blog War: Forget That Brady Bunch Wagon And Go For This Gorgeous Country Squire!

Okay, Gator…congratulations on finding a big-block LTD wagon. I’ll give you credit where it’s due, a big-block station wagon is getting hard to find, regardless of who made it. And you even got...

MORE: eBay Find, FORD

Ebay Find: A Nine-Passenger Pontiac Clamshell Wagon, Perfect For Loading Up The Entire “Family”

We love station wagons. They are roomy, useable, aren’t really much different than any modern SUV, and since they pretty much lost their “mom and dad” stigma about twenty years ago,...

Ebay Find: This MR2 Is Packing An Audi 4.2 V8 And A Serious Anger Issue

Don’t look at this first-gen Toyota MR2 and just see a wide body kit. You’d be doing this car a disservice. Instead, you should know about it’s running gear and why this little...

Ebay Find: A Clean Colonnade Buick Century Up For Auction…The Engine Options Are Limitless!

As with any era of GM cars, there are the ones people remember, and the ones that they don’t, and the ’73-’77 Colonnade-era A-bodies are no exception. Chevelle, Laguna, Cutlass/442...

Ebay Find: Just In Time For Christmas, A Rusty Chevrolet!

Anyone reading this site should be familiar with the Christmas spoof “Rusty Chevrolet” by Da Yoopers. (If you aren’t, CLICK HERE to listen to it!) It’s always inspiring to...

Ebay Find: This Duramax-Powered 1970 Chevelle Can Give You Speed And Fuel Economy, At A Price

Not everybody is cut out to build their own car, and that’s alright. The engineering and mechanical ability required to put together a high-quality car takes years, sometimes decades, to...

Ebay Find: Another Beautiful Ambassador For Your Consideration

A little while ago, in one of our “Would You Rather?” games, we presented two AMC Ambassador coupes for your consideration. One had a cool beater vibe, the other was a show car that had...

Ebay Find: This Custom International Has An Oldsmobile Heart And A Look That Was Last Seen In 1992

If I have typed “International” into the search bar on eBay, I’m looking for one of two items. Either I’m searching for the next truck I’m going to torment Lohnes with,...