While still scratching our heads over the admittedly great looking, but incredibly over-bid Volvo 122S we featured the other day (which closed yesterday at an amazing price of $36,100) we came across this beautifully restomodded 1966 Chevrolet Corvair Turbo Convertible for sale on Ebay offered for sale in Dallas Texas by Starwood Motors, for a […]
Out of all the commonly misspelled words in print, the favorite among car listings has the be the ubiquitous Camero. Do a nationwide search for Cameros on craigslist or ebay and find not just a few, but an entire city sized population of Cameros all over the USA. Sure, phonetically the car’s name sounds like […]
The word muscle derives from the Latin musculus which means literally “little mouse” – a reference to the way muscle looks when it moves under the skin. The Chevrolet Vega was a mouse sized sub-compact built by GM from 1970-1977- initially touted as “Merica’s answer to European sports cars. Unfortunately a number of classic GM […]
Before starting this feature I want to point out that no Bartles and Jaymes was consumed before, during or after the creation of this post and that everything written in this feature is at least as factual as all the other stuff on these pages…which isn’t saying much. The El Camino SS was available via […]
People did a lot of drugs in the ’70s. Folks took all kinds of stuff that and they didn’t always know what was in it or what the side effects would be. The guy who painted today’s feature probably thought he was skiing in the Alps and directing the Trans-Siberian Orchestra. In fact it was […]
The Corvette was a medium sized class of interstellar transport ship, smaller than a frigate but large enough to be considered a capital ship. One of the more famous Corvette class ships was the Tantive IV, used by that rebel scum Leia Organa to transport leaked classified technical specs for the peaceful Life Sphere to […]
Occasionally, you might need a vehicle to help you do some hedge clipping instead of apex clipping. That being said, there is simply no reason to spend a lot of money on a newer pickup. First, the value of pickups drops drastically and second, the modern pickups offer nothing new in hauling capabilities compared to […]
The second generation Chevrolet Cavalier was launched in 1988 as Chevrolet’s compact economy car, following in the footsteps of the Monza, Nova, Corvair, etc. It isn’t old enough to be collectible and its front-drive chassis was built more for economy than for performance, but at least the Z24 version had pretensions of being sporty. Fortunately, […]
The transition metal Cobalt is an element with atomic weight of 27 and was discovered by a Swedish chemist in the early 18th century. Cobalt is key component of the chemical cobalamin, commonly known as vitamin B12, a nutrient necessary for all animal life…a subject which we will dive into later. The Chevrolet Cobalt was […]
The terms land yacht and boat are used to describe big heavy American cars, typically those from the 1970s with huge hoods and under-damped suspension. They are known for handling like aquatic vehicles, where turning is an imprecise art involving the width of a shipping lane, but they typically don’t look much like actual boats. […]