“Say what? That’s just a dirty old F-body Z28. My cousin Julian in Sea Bright’s got one, and his is an IROC! So yeah, I see the shiny wheels, the big wing (which has to be good for at least 30 hp, right?) and the orange skunk stripes — but so what? I’m telling you, Julian’s [...]

The words “car” and “art” get mashed together quite often. I would argue far too often. See, one man’s ‘57 Chevy Bel Air is another’s Tatra T603. But who amongst us can deny the inherent beauty of a V8? You want art? I give you 16 transplendent valves and a fistfull of pushrods. In fact, all the aforementioned [...]

To quote Vanilla Ice, “Will it ever stop? Yo! — I don’t know.” Here’s the skinny. The last time Chevy flew their gang of “engineers” out to Germany (”engineers” being GM speak for facotry race drivers), Jim Mero snapped off a then “production car record” time of 7:26. Das ich fast, jah? Sadly for Chevy, [...]

We learned yesterday that cash wasn’t absolutely necessary to pull off a convinving bribe — booze works just fine! However, as is the case with Punisher Racing — a bunch of Impalla SS dudes in a cheater Caprice but we can’t figure out how they’re cheatin’ — a bottle of booze might get ‘em a [...]

One of the things that I like best about the increasingly famous infamous $500 junk race called the 24 Hours of LeMons is that fully half the fun is in the pits & paddock. Obviously as a LeMons judge I’m a bit biased. However, at least a dozen people said as much to me this [...]

Blasphemy or badassery? You decide, but the guys at EVS Motors have managed to take a massaged 2JZ-GTE — the twin-turbo 3-liter DOHC inline-6 of Toyota Supra fame — and stuff it into a 1969 Chevrolet Camaro. These kinds of swaps are all the rage in the South Pacific, where the motors are cheap. Seriously, [...]

If you missed today’s post about the next ‘Vette (C7) and where it’s engine is going to sit (hint: not behind the driver), then today’s POTD may not make as much sense as it might. Regardless, if GM really needs a reason to keep the Corvette front engined, I present the above arguments. Those are [...]

For many moons there’s been lots of talk about a mid-engined ‘Vette. Maximum Bob Lutz hinted at the idea because moving the engine behind the driver would allow the General to fit one of their cylinder deactivation LS3 engines in the Corvette’s engine bay (something about an additional clutch to deactivate the driveshaft to the [...]

Ferrari Day marches on! And yes, Mr. Justin and I talk about the fast, red cars. But before we do, we discuss a comparo review of the Ford Flex and Chevrolet Traverse over on TTAC. That’s right boyeeee – we talk new-fangled minivans. I prefer the Flex, Justin sounds bored to tears. We also get [...]

 

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It’s always nice to walk down my stairs and see a brand new, shiny-ass press car sitting there waiting for me. Unless of course it’s a minivan — but that’s another story. However, sometimes I pop outside and there’s a really cool piece of vintage machinery just hanging out and looking good. Today was such [...]