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Top Corvettes of All Time - 1962 Corvette
February 1st, 2021 Chris Phillip
Very rarely do automakers lavish much attention on an outgoing model, with most aesthetic changes being limited to trim and perhaps grille patterns. While that may have been the case for the final first generation Corvette (C1), 1962 marked a significant improvement in performance over previous models when Zora Arkus-Duntov and company punched the small-block out to 327 storied cubes, boosted comp...
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Ceramics: Not Just for Professionals Anymore
January 29th, 2021 Chris Phillip
Unless you've been asleep at the wheel, you've likely heard that ceramics -- products that instead of using wax for protection, use an ingredient found in glass -- silicon dioxide or Si02 -- are all the rage. The challenge has been to make ceramics not only easy and safe to use, but also affordable. That's where Mothers High Performance Car Care has been very successful with its CMX Ceramic Spray...
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Top Mustangs of All Time - 1965 G.T. 350
January 28th, 2021 Chris Phillip
At the request of Ford’s Lee Iacocca, Carroll Shelby, already a Le Mans winning racecar driver and builder of the Shelby Cobra sports cars with Ford drivetrains, was tasked with beefing up the performance image of the newly released Ford Mustang. Shelby wanted to make the Mustang a pure racer’s machine, with the ability to campaign the car in SCCA events. Shelby’s G.T. 350 Mustang began as a Wimbl...
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Cat Depreciation Day
January 11th, 2021 Chris Phillip
Who says late-model iron isn't exciting? Case in point is this 2016 Dodge SRT Challenger Hellcat, a 2,000-mile, one-owner example looking for a new love in its life. In 2015, Dodge introduced the SRT Challenger Hellcat and ushered in a brand-new era of modern muscle-car performance. Heck, getting a Hellcat meant paying dearly over MSRP - $5,000 over, $10,000 over, $25,000 over ... you name it! Tha...
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A Two-Door Vic Will Do the Trick!
December 21st, 2020 Chris Phillip
If you thought Ford's use of the name Victoria was isolated to the ubiquitous Crown Victoria sedans that filled police fleets from 1992-2012, you didn't go far enough back into your history book. Introduced in 1930 on the Model A, "Victoria was a late addition to that year’s line and, as a result, volume was rather limited at not quite 6,500 units. All were Deluxe models with full equipment and a...
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One Howler of a Prowler
December 3rd, 2020 Chris Phillip
Ah, the great American car brands that have gone to the graveyard in the sky: Studebacker, Hudson, Mercury ... the list goes on. But while Pontiac may have gone out with a wimper (Anybody recall the Daewoo-built G3 abomination?), Plymouth, the brand that brought us the legendary Roadrunner and 'Cuda, went out with a bang. Case in point is the Prowler, a legendary late-model two-seat roadster that...
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Cozy Up with your Boss!
November 19th, 2020 Chris Phillip
Back in 1971, Ford's Boss Mustang entered its third production year after setting a strong reputation in the muscle-car world (and professional SCCA Trans Am racing) for performance that gave Shelbys a run for their money. Indeed, 1969 and 1970 Boss ponys with their nimble small-block 302s and Hemi-killer 429s were the talk of the town, but what would the third model year bring? The answer was the...
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Fresh Tires Roasted Daily!
November 10th, 2020 Chris Phillip
Sometimes, the fewer words get all the attention. That's the story of Ryno Classifieds seller Bill McMorris who is offering his ground-pounding 1970 Chevrolet Chevelle to those who dream to quantlfy their vehicular horsepower with four digits instead of three. That's right, 1-0-0-0 horsepower is quite the bragging right and this classic A-body Chevy does it via a restomod build featuring a superch...
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Win Vaughn Gittin, Jr.’s “Ultimate Fun Haver” Ford F-150
November 5th, 2020 Ryan Maturski
It’s “One Insane F-150,” says Drivingline.com To celebrate the official launch of RYNO Classifieds from Ryan Maturski, the founder of Racing Junk, you can enter to win World Drift Champion Vaughn Gittin, Jr’s “Ultimate Fun Haver” Ford F-150 sport truck. Drivingline.com calls this grand-prize truck “One insane F-150” and you can bring it home when you create a free user account at RYNO.co. If you’r...
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Which Way is Wally World?
October 28th, 2020 Chris Phillip
How foretelling that last week's blog was "Going Home with a Supermodel" as this week's blog recalls Christie Brinkley's role in the campy, cult-classic comedy, Vacation. Christie, as pop-culture aficionados can attest, was the girl in the Ferrari, or to be more precise, the girl in the 1981 Ferrari 308 GTSi. The targa-topped 308 GTS was a V-8 mid-engine, two-seater sports car produced by Ferrari...
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