This is Mario. He’s best known for building some of the craziest lowriders on the streets of Winnipeg, but on this day he’s rolling in his stunning mid ’70s ‘Vette. He came to own the car when the previous owner’s wife got sick of it taking up room in the garage and advertised it on [...]
No matter what parts you attach to a a car-be it transmission, suspension, aerodynamics, or fuzzy dice hanging from the rearview mirror, it is only the engine that makes the beast move. Granted, there are few unnecessary parts to a vehicle-even the New Beetle has a reason for the vase and plastic flower attached to [...]
It’s not very often that two of the most iconic vehicles of the ’50s are seen in the same photograph. This ’57 Chevy and this ’56 Corvette were both hanging out at the annual Beausejour car show, soaking up the late afternoon sun as the rest of the field packs up and heads home.
A big thanks goes out to Rob B., who was kind enough to let me drive his amazing car, the “24 Hours of LeMans” Commemorative Edition Corvette. This mean machine not only has all the goodies that GM could stuff into it-everything from weight-saving carbon fibre to a 6-speed manual transmission-but everything Rob could throw [...]
**UPDATE** Our fearless retailer, McNally Robinson, is now stocking “Class of 2009″ in their online store. Click Here to order today! After weeks of hard work behind the scenes (and one week of teasing here on this site), today is the big day-the official launch of our first book, “Class of 2009″! For [...]
When we started this series on the history of the Corvette, we asked you, the reader, to name a car that’s had the lasting power of the Corvette. Although some of you may have tried, the truth is that you can’t–there has never been a model in the short history of the automobile that has [...]
No matter where you went to school, there was always that one big kid that you always wanted on your team. He (or she) could hit a baseball the farthest, pass a floor hockey puck the straightest, and could always find a way through the opposition’s defence and get that football into the end zone. [...]
One of the most celebrated aspects of American heroes is the way they’ve given the middle finger to their antagonists. It started before they were even a country, when the Yanks gave Britain the middle finger over unfair taxation in the form of the “Boston Tea Party.” Sometimes it even takes on literal meaning, like [...]
When the time finally came to replace the third-generation Corvette, Chevy engineers put every bit of technology into the 1984 ‘Vette. Everything from a new type of plastic on the body panels, to the first TPI fuel injection, to a digital speedometer went into building GM’s next supercar. In fact, they put so much effort [...]
