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Top 10 Corvettes - 1963 Stingray Coupe
February 8th, 2021 Chris Phillip
The 1960’s saw the design extremes including tail fins of cars from the previous decade smoothed out into leaner shapes. Sports cars followed suit, with the debut of the 1961 Jaguar XKE leading the way. Corvette responded with the Sting Ray that was launched in October 1962 to critical acclaim and commercial success. The Jaguar XKE design was interpreted from its Le Mans winning D type race car –...
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Crate Balls of Fire
February 5th, 2021 Chris Phillip
HotRod.com and GM announced that Lingenfelter Performance Engineering, one of Dream Giveaway's longest-running partners, has been specially chosen to convert a 1974 Chevy El Camino to Chevy's new Electric Connect and Cruise package. The 60-kWh Electric Connect and Cruise package, expected to be available in the second half of 2021, includes: •60-kWh battery pack • 200-horsepower electric motor • D...
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Taking Cars and Coffee Literally
February 4th, 2021 Chris Phillip
Our friends at Motorized Coffee Company have some great stuff brewing for those who enjoy cars and coffee, literally. "It's all about living. Full throttle." The company's founder Alberto says, "We believe that cars and coffee go hand in hand. As car lovers and coffee aficionados ourselves, we want to ignite taste buds with the same flame that stokes the car community's passion for cars. We believ...
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Top 10 Mustangs - 1967 Shelby G.T. 500
February 3rd, 2021 Chris Phillip
For 1967, Carroll Shelby took his monster Mustang to the next level with significant styling changes in addition to the drivetrain and suspension modifications that had made the Mustang Shelby G.T. 350 so successful. Ford designer Chuck McHose conjured up an aggressive front and rear treatment, complete with functional aerodynamics to keep the powerhouse pony planted at speed while cooling the bra...
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Every Trip Starts with Odyssey Battery!
February 2nd, 2021 Chris Phillip
Every day should get off to a great start, right? That’s why RYNO and Dream Giveaway trust Odyssey Batteries for our grand-prize vehicles. When you take home a grand-prize car or truck, you’ll have a great start, too, thanks to the day-in and day-out reliability of an Odyssey battery. If you don’t yet have an Odyssey battery in your personal vehicles, now is a great time to make the changeover. No...
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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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