Tag: Chevrolet
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BYO Engine and Trans and Have a Cool V8 Vega Wagon
The Chevy Vega Wagon is one we don’t see often. This one is an incomplete project with no engine or transmission included. The seller claims this is setup and ready for a V8 swap. The Vega’s successor, the Monza, was available with a few factory V8s, but the Vega never was. As some of the…
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Feathered, Like Your Hair
We’re big fans of the long-lost, full-sized, two-door SUVs and prefer unusual ones. Think 78-79 Bronco and any Ramcharger. Blazers don’t qualify as unusual without something special. Thia one’s a “Feathers” edition. We don’t know what that’s about, but it’s certainly different… This appears to be in decent shape with an engine from a 1986…
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Shortvair
I like any ad that begins with “I have a collection of shortened cars.” Do we bother to ask why? If you must shorten a car, a Corvair seems like a decent choice, given the lack of a driveshaft… It looks like the body work has been done, which is obviously the biggest step if…
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The Stuff of Spark Plug Changing Legend
We have featured a couple of Monzas before, and even one of the Buick equivalents, but this is our first Monza V8. Yes, this is a subcompact car with a V8 offering a whopping 140HP, but I imagine the torque must have made the car feel decent, assuming the gearing wasn’t comically high. The rumor…
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An Astro “Show Car”?
Yes, that’s what this claims to be. This is an Astro van with a nasty body kit, poor color choices, airbags and no mention of any engine work. What more can I say? Click for Craigslist ad Beautiful Downtown Culver City, CA $3,800 -CG The seller states that this is a “fully unique body kit”…
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Would a Celebrity be caught dead in this?
The Chevy Celebrity epitomizes the 80s domestic automobile and makes it very, very easy to understand why imports took over our market. These are as close to a generic car as anything ever available in any market worldwide. Perhaps as an attempt to make the car relevant, someone at Hess and Eisenhardt (known for chopping…
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Extremely Rare Wagon: Corvair Lakewood
Not everyone knows that the Corvair was more than a two-door sedan and convertible. There were vans and pickups, as well as this wagon variant. These don’t come around often, and I can only imagine not many were made. This one’s in good driver condition, though the seller refers to some amateur rust repair…
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Are you a Mark Hamill fan who doesn’t like Star Wars? This might be the car for you!
If you qualify for the above, you MUST be a Corvette Summer fan. While this car isn’t as over-the-top crazy as the movie car, the paint certainly reminds me of it. The seller offers shockingly little information about this car, considering it’s a full custom. I don’t know how much boost this produces, but it…
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90s Monte Carlos just don’t scream NASCAR enough in stock form
To me, owning a front drive Monte Carlo is the same as screaming “I love NASCAR” from the hilltops. The 80s SS, with V8 and RWD, was a different matter, but there’s really on appeal to the FWD Monte, which was really just an evolution of the rental car special Lumina. Sure, a V8 popped…
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Rare for a reason: 2WD K5 Blazer
If you’re going to screw up a Blazer by lowering it, I guess it makes sense to start with the 2WD version, which isn’t good for typical K5 Blazer use anyway. Beyond that, the seller’s decisions were ‘interesting’, to say the least. For some reason, he or she included the Wimpy character from Popeye. Do…