By Dan Strohl

Hemmings

I don’t know why I’ve yet to think of this, but I once suffered from a case of unintended acceleration – in my old 1971 Chevrolet Nova.

I bought the Nova in college with my dad, partly because it was such a good deal – $1,900 and not rusted out like every other pre-1990 vehicle in Ohio – partly as a fun car for the both of us. The body was straight, it had a mint interior, and its 250-cu.in. six-cylinder ran strong. It also had a three-on-the-tree, which I thought was rather unusual, but I’ve seen mention of three-on-the-tree transmissions lasting in the X-bodies through 1974. (The fuzzy dice were my attempt at being ironic; blackwalls with bowtie-stamped baby moons on 15-inch steelies didn’t require irony to be cool.)

When my daily driver started to become unreliable sometime during junior year, Dad let me use the Nova as a daily. After college, I then took it with me to Oregon, where I worked for a small-town newspaper. Oregon was the perfect place for that car: mild winters, no salt on the roads and a laid-back pace of life. So I drove it all over as I explored that new state on the weekends. Continue reading at Hemmings

By Michael Berenis

Tampa Sports Car Examiner

Warning, the following video is not for the avid Corvette fan! Backing up and giving it full throttle, the owner plows a pristine C4 right into the water causing it to stall and possibly hydro-lock. Do you think the wet Corvette lived to race another day? Read more about the soggy abuse at Tampa Sports Car Examiner.

By Rob Einaudi

Editor-in-Chief

Today’s pic comes from Danielle’s Chevrolet Corvette ride page. Keep those photo of the day PMs and e-mails coming!

By Michael Berenis

Tampa Sports Car Examiner

Happy birthday! The ultimate birthday present for a teenager, the yellow and black 2010 Camaro SS is the best way to celebrate the day. Surrounded in controversy, do you think it’s right or wrong to give a new driver a high powered sports car? Read more about the SS surprise at Tampa Sports Car Examiner.

kid gets 2010 Camaro SS for his 16th birthday

By Rob Einaudi

Editor-in-Chief

Today’s pic is from Bobby’s 1998 Chevy Cavalier Z24 Convertible ride page. Keep those photo of the day PMs and e-mails coming!

By Speedhunters

Car Culture At Large

Here’s a new video clip of Conrad Grunewald doing some preseason testing in the new Hankook drift Camaro at Laguna Seca. Looks like the car is coming along well, and boy does it sound nice…

By Mike Garrett

Hankook Camaro Testing from lab17 on Vimeo.

By Brian Lohnes

BangShift.com

2008 NHRA Full Throttle Pro Stock Motorcycle Champion Eddie Krawiec and DMC Racing have teamed up to build a bad ass 2000 Camaro for Drag Radial class racing. When completed, the car will sport a 454ci LSX mill force fed by a 106mm single turbo. DMC’s expertise in the small tire drag car world will be put to the test, as this car will wear a pair of 275 radials to get all that power to the ground. The Camaro under the knife had only 4,500 original miles on it when DMC started filling it full of chrome-moly tube. As wild as his Pro Stock Harley is, this Camaro will be every bit its ragged edge equal. BangShift.com will be following every step of this kick ass build. Continue reading at BangShift.com

By Speedhunters

Car Culture At Large

Cars are like food. Their main aim is to satisfy and fill your appetite for a variety of motoring cravings. And as of late I fell like my diet has consisted of too much boosted Japanese machinery sprinkled with the odd tasting of more tantalizing Euro exotica. So the other week I thought I’d get myself the motoring equivalent of steak and mashed potatoes, although this particular car came with dollop of hot sauce! I wanted to see for myself how driving and living with a modern day American muscle car would fare in one of the world’s most cramped cities. Continue reading at Speedhunters

By Dino Dalle Carbonare

By Brian Lohnes

BangShift.com

Imagine you innocently enter a sanctioned burnout contest and end up totalling your third-gen Camaro without ever moving an inch. That’s what happened to this guy, and his car suffered the most extreme damage we’ve ever seen from a tire explosion during a burnout. Usually a tire pops and maybe the tread slaps the sheet metal a little, but this thing plowed through the back of the car like a Sherman tank.

Really, you need to see this. It might open the eyes of some burnout contest promoters as to the dangers of people standing so close to the action.

Thanks to BangShift.com moderator White Monster for the tip!

crazy tire explosion!

By Rob Einaudi

Editor-in-Chief

Pretty much every car guy and gal’s dream… From The H.A.M.B.

I found this 61 Vette recently when I asked about a RX-7 convertible that was rotting in the backyard. He asked if I was interested in another car he had and of course I almost choked when he said it was a old Vette! Car is all original with one repaint from 30 years ago still looking good. There is a book of documentation with the car including the original window sticker and sales invoice! There is also every registration going back through three owners and bills-of-sale from each one with the cancelled checks! All service history from day one, original wonderbar radio manual, original hardtop manual and even an electric clock manual!

I got it home and points and plugs and a fresh battery and she runs like a 5 year old car. The black convertible top looks brand new! Tires have flat spots on them from sitting and are a little but wobbly but hey, I’m NOT complaining. He offered it to me for what I thought was a good price and of course I jumped on it, but after I bought it I did some research and realised it was about 60% of market value. Oh, and AFTER I bought it he tells me he has a hard top for it in a back bedroom! It only needs a little cleaning and detailing and some sunny day driving!

More pics after the jump! (The trunk shot just kills me.)

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