Tag: classic

This week’s Burnout Friday video features a 1959 Chevy Bel Air doing a big, nasty burnout. We don’t have any details on this classic Chevy Belair and the only available information – the model year – is incorrect. I could be wrong, but I believe that this is a 1955 Chevy, not a 1959 as […] More »

What we have here is a 1974 version of the Super Duty. A 455 cubic inch motor, 7.5Ls of displacement, and a quarter mile that was blitzed in just 13.71 seconds in 1973. Only 212 Trans Am 455 Super Dutys were built due to the burgeoning oil crisis that was sweeping the nation. This makes the Trans Am 455 Super Duty extremely rare.

SEMA was full of shiny, new Camaros with wide body kits and laughably large rims, but there was another theme this year: classics. It’s like the everyone had the same idea to take a classic Camaro and turn it into the car they think it should be. I totally understand the appeal; the new Camaros […] More »

Classic car. Modern motor. It’s really a combo that never fails to be satisfying. No, it probably won’t turn as well as a new Camaro, but who cares. It’s a frickin’ Camaro. Who doesn’t love this car? The engine has been given a working over as well by Livernois motorsports. Mods include stage 2 heads, […] More »

Lambrecht Chevrolet in Pierce, Nebraska shut down almost twenty years ago. And when it closed its doors, it shut away scores of unsold cars, including some ultra low-milage cars from the 50s and 60s. Well, the full collection is finally going to auction–including vintage Corvettes, Impalas, Corvairs and Tri-Fives. More pics plus video after the […] More »

Watching a classic car like this do a burnout is always a little nostalgic. The Bel Air’s heyday was over 50 years ago, and yet here it is, fumigating what looks like a rain forest with tire smoke. Someday we’ll look back that Camaro with those same wistful and teary eyes. Teary, not from sadness, […] More »