Folks will often ask me what is the fastest cheap car that is dependable enough to drive every day. Of course, I want to tell them to buy some V10 swapped Volvo, but the truth is nothing will ever match the factory installation quality and there is no better performance bargain today than the C5 […]
The intersection of hair metal and eco-geekdom is a lonely one, marked by the paradoxical symbiosis of Birkenstocks and acid-washed jackets in the same closet. Do you wear a mullet not because it is stylish, but because you want to reduce the amount of toxic sunscreen runoff in our rivers, but still protect your neck […]
The C3 generation Chevrolet Corvette might not be as collectible and desirable as the C2 Corvette, but the early chrome bumper versions were decent looking and could be had with insanely powerful engines straight from the factory. Given the prices you could pick them up for (and the amount of drugs used in the late […]
You’ve got $20k budget for something sporty, what do you buy…a new V6 Mustang? Heck no!! You don’t want people to think you are driving around in a rental, do ya? What you need is something that’ll show the boys back at your 30th high school reunion that you made it. What you need is […]
“Corvettes’ crappy chairs cramp your can,” cite cynical car columnists. Can cuddly cushions calm curt complaints? Are computer-controlled gear changes criminal? Creamy cow cuts and chrome create a crisis for crotchety, chain-chested Chevy clientele compulsively clicking on Craigslist. Find this 57,000-mile 1992 Corvette Coupe with Z07 package in Liberty, MO for $6,800 via Craigslist. To compete […]
In the 1977 James Bond film The Spy Who Loved Me, the star of the movie isn’t a debinaire Roger Moore, but a 1977 Lotus Esprit that transforms into a submarine. The movie used an actual Esprit for some of the underwater scenes and that car was subsequently lost to the public eye and only […]
Ah, the C3 Vette. Loved by 80s enthusiasts around the world and known for its mako-shark looks, the C3 generation Corvette (1968-1982) splits the styling gap between the timeless C2 and bland C4. From a price perspective a used C3 was a bargain by the late ’80s and many went under the customizer’s knife…or hatchet. […]
For better or worse, the Volkswagen Beetle is a motoring icon with a 65 year production life and 21 million units sold – unmatched in quantity by any other single vehicle platform. The original flat-4 is both the biggest asset (reliable, simple to fix, cheap) and problem (low on power, noisy, unrefined) with the original […]
You know what they say, when it rains VW-custom tips, it pours insanity….wait…nobody says…that…well, they should. Anyway, the famous Corsican general Napoleone di Buonaparte was quoted as saying “There are two levers for moving men — interest and fear.” Today’s feature peaks piques both interest and fear for a variety of reasons. Find this 1984 Chevrolet […]
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 […]