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Chevy Unleashes The Mother Of All Camaros

February 10, 2011 By 1 Comment
2012 Chevy Camaro ZL1

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Chevy chose this week’s Chicago Auto Show to make their most heavily anticipated product debut since the return of the Camaro. Instead of giving the audience the expected Z28, Chevy dug deep into their history to bring up a legendary (if obscure) product name – the ZL1. If you’re a vintage Camaro guy, you probably know that the ZL1 was a single year (1969), aluminum block racing engine option for the Camaro. Only 69 were built, and the cars command a stratospheric price when they show up at auction. Chevy though it was appropriate to use this legendary performance name on the most powerful Camaro ever built, and I tend to agree with them. [Read more...]

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You Don’t Want To See This In Your Rear View Mirror

January 28, 2011 By 3 Comments

Meet Chevy’s newest cop car, the Caprice Police Pursuit Vehicle (PPV). Basically a rebadged and heavily modified Holden Commodore, the Caprice features the conventional front engine, rear drive layout that police agencies have come to know and love. It’s also got a bulletproof 355 horsepower, 6.0 liter, pushrod V8 under the hood, which should hold up under the harshest of conditions. For many agencies, low tech is preferable over things like twin turbo setups and cylinder de-activating V8s, so expect traditional police agencies to flock to the new Caprice PPV. I’m posting this video as a public service; since the car won’t be sold in civilian trim (at least not yet), I’m giving you a chance to learn what it looks like before you’re on the receiving end of a ticket. [Read more...]

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2011 Indy Pace Car To Be Drop-Top Camaro SS

January 21, 2011 By Leave a Comment

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The pace car for the 1969 Indy 500 was a white Camaro convertible with orange stripes. I can’t say that I remember watching the race (although I’m sure my dad had it on TV), but I remember seeing images of that white and orange pace car. I photographed one at last year’s Barrett-Jackson auction in Palm Beach, and I remember thinking how stunning the car was in person. It somehow just looked right, as if every proportion and styling trick was done to highlight just that car. Even the “reverse creamsicle” paint job looked good, although I can’t imagine many cars pulling that off. [Read more...]

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1980 Toyota Corolla Defines ‘Sleeper’

December 16, 2010 By Leave a Comment

Hood scoop aside, the car looks so innocent.

Not many project cars leave me speechless, but this one comes close. What kind of a mad genius wakes up one day thinking, “I wonder if I can stuff a 454 cubic inch Chevy V8 under the hood of my Toyota Corolla?” Even better, how many people would act on such an utterly insane notion? The amount of fabrication you’d have to do is staggering, since there’s no such thing as a big-block-Chevy-conversion-kit for a 1980 Toyota Corolla. Stuffing a small block Chevy into a 280Z is for amateurs, and enough people have shoe-horned LS3s into Mazda Miata’s that even the most incompetent shadetree mechanic still has a chance at making it work. A big-block in a Corolla, however, is something else entirely.

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First Chevy Volt Auctioned For $225K

December 15, 2010 By Leave a Comment

The very first Chevy Volt left the plant in Michigan and headed straight to auction. Do you think GM Motors wants to soak up the electric car glory? Well, this one is all for charity, folks.

The very first Volt for sale sold for a whopping $225,000. It sports VIN BU100002 and comes with a not-so-cheap 240-volt home charging station. The money is going to the Detroit Public School Foundation that supports science, math, technology and engineering.
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