How old is 40 in truck years? I’ve gotten that question a lot. Turns out it’s still 40. And at 40 years old, even a successful, accomplished monster truck isn’t immune from a midlife crisis. How else would you explain these past few months? After all, the first 39 years were wonderful. I spent the
The Boss? Gone. The Judge? History. The Hellcat? Melba Toast. We included late-model vehicles in this year’s installment of Muscle-Car Match-Ups, but it didn’t take you long to rid the tournament bracket of them, including the Dodge Challenger Hellcat, which some believed would win this entire tournament. Of the eight cars remaining in the tournament,
Au revoir, ’87 GNX. Sayonara, ’13 Shelby GT500. We’ll miss you, ’70 Challenger. We say goodbye to a bunch of worthy classics after Round 1, but we can’t help but salivate a little over the juicy match-ups coming up this round. Hopefully by now, you know the drill. If you don’t, you can brush up
The Gen I small block came along way from its humble beginnings in 1955. As we’ve seen in our list so far, it all started with the 265 and then developed into the TPI and LT engines of the 1980s and 90s. But Chevrolet/General Motors really took things to a whole new level with the introduction of its Gen
That’s LT-1—with a hyphen. There have been three incarnations of the LT-1/LT1 engine now, including the latest version for the 2014 Corvette, but the first LT-1 (the hyphen differentiates it from the more modern mills) has become a true legend among Bowtie enthusiasts. And for good reason. Debuting in the Corvette in 1970, it took Chevy’s popular
The seventh installment of the Fast and Furious movie franchise premiered unannounced at SXSW, reminding us once again of the legions of fans who pretend to not like these films, but secretly love them. It’s because fast cars! Awesome fighting! Pretty girls! But mostly just fast cars! We understand. For many of us, the cars have
The potent 327 L84 held the title as the most powerful production small block Chevy engine for nearly 30 years! That’s an impressive feat for an engine developed way back in 1964, especially considering it gave up precious cubic inches to the larger small blocks developed later on. So how did this legendary engine do it? The
It’s that time again. Filling out tournament brackets has become a rite of spring. What college basketball has ingrained in our culture, we’ve brought to you with an automotive twist. It’s Year 3 for Muscle Car Match-Ups, so to spice things up, we’ve expanded the field to 32 muscle cars, and have included later-model vehicles
We readily admit this engine won’t make a lot of other people’s top 5 lists of small block Chevys. But as we celebrate 60 years of the small block Chevy, the 350 L98 engine makes ours for its heroic efforts in helping keep Chevrolet performance alive in the 1980s. Introduced in 1985, the L98, along with its 305
Update, Friday, March 13: You know how these things go. The Ridetech crew has been hard at work transforming a 1972 Corvette into a road race and autocross monster for the last three days, and is now into a fourth day. According to RideTech’s Brett Voelkel, the Corvette has been more complicated than the 48-hour Camaro,
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