Check out this drag racing video. The Chevelle has a bad day.
The driver is in shorts and no helmet – no rules at “Run At Your Own Risk” drag strip, but really? Have to them some credit – the post and cable on the edge of the strip most likely saved a few spectators from being injured.
This 1967 Ford Mustang is number 7 of 11 “Eleanor” versions built by Cinema Vehicle Services of North Hollywood, California, for the 2000 remake of the original 1974 cult classic “Gone in 60 Seconds.” The car is one of only three used in scenes involving the cast of Gone, which included Nicholas Cage, Giovanni Ribisi and Angelina Jolie, and it incorporates the now-famous design features originally penned by famed hot rod designer Steve Stanford.
Growing up in Upstate New York, reader Tim S remembers riding his bike along the railroad tracks near his home. One day while riding with some friends, he spotted several Corvettes parked in a field. At the time, they were still fairly new looking cars and he can only assume they must have been wrecked and not abandoned. A few years later he got a job at a shop just down the road from this Corvette graveyard and all the cars were still there like they had been when he was a boy. Time went by and he forgot about these Vettes, but he just recently had a run in with them once again.
Read the store:
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Well we just can stop talking about C7. Just our recently are some very impressive specs for the 2015 Corvette Z06.
SAE says it will have an impressive 650 horse power (@ 6,400 RPMs) and even more impressive 650 LB-FT of torque (@ 3,600 RPMs). These numbers exceed the original speculations of 625.
The power is being delivered by a super charged LT4 and transferred to the pavement via a 7 speed manual or new for 2015 an 8 speed automatic!!!
Super Charged, Direct Injection LT4 Engine
’15 Z06 Corvette
Are you impressed?
Thanks for reading.
Tim
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This new portion of the Kentucky production facility is already busy building the LS7 V8 that powers the Chevrolet Camaro Z/28, but as production of the 2015 Corvette Z06 ramps up, these new hires will help to build the powerful LT4 engine for the most …
“The new LT4 engine builds on the design strengths of our previous supercharged engine and leverages the technologies introduced on the Corvette Stingray – direct injection, cylinder deactivation and continuously variable valve timing – to take …
The all-new supercharged LT4 engine from General Motors is almost the same size as the compact LT1 engine recently introduced in the 2014 Corvette Stingray. Getting big block performance out of small-block sized engines sounds almost like magic, but it …
Mercedes – AMG gets a boost of power. Engineers have upped the power for the 4.0 Liter engine via a twin turbo, 4 valve per cylinder and direct injection. Drivers can expect 503 HPs and 479 lb-ft of torque. Gone is the 6.2 liter.
The New AMG-GT will have the new direct inject engine.
End of production for this beautiful AMG SLS car as well.
2015 C63 – Gonna have to be fast – surely isn’t special looking.
Andrew Cuomo came to Watkins Glen International and took his 1975 Corvette around the track during the NASCAR weekend. He left with quite an impression. Saturday, Cuomo returned to announce a new ad campaign for New York tourism called “The …
1975 Corvette, sounded as great as it looked http://t.co/5lRMT1DQa4
Continuing with Baseball, Hot Dog, Apple Pie, Chevrolet and 4th of July theme….
Last post we touched on a rare Chevy but they made some great car in 1975…ok….maybe…not ‘great’, but there are some collectibles I think are over looked. (Keep in mind that I think just about any 2 door Chevy can be ‘all that’!!!)
Check these out.
How about the Malibu for ’75? It came in the S and Landau versions and with a total of 258,909 units built, there a good bet you can find used parts.
1975 Malibu….the hood wasn’t an option!!!
The Nova was on the decline design-wise, but you could get it in a V8 and a Super Sport version. There were 273,014 Nova’s built-in two door and (hiss…boo) 4 door configurations. Of that total 138,879 were six cylinders and 134,103 were V8’s. Within the V8’s 9,087 were Super Sport!!
Nova SS (Hatch back? Yup!)
There was a the Impala/Bel Air/Caprice platform. No I am serious!!!! The two door version are under rated and can be monsters in the right hands (the Bel Air only came in 4dr and wagon sub models). The Impala had the Landau, Custom Coupe and Sports Coupe with a total production of 176,376. The Caprice had Custom, Landau and the Convertible with 103,944 units coming off the assembly line. That totaled included 8,349 Convertibles.
75 Caprice Caprice Convertible
Saving (arguably) the best two platforms for last the Chevelle series (which included the Malibu, the Malibu Classic, the Classic Estate [station wagon] and the Laguna) and the Camaro. The Camaro was still longish and sleek and the Chevelle etc was….well Monte Carlo like!!! Both came in 6 and 8 cylinder and had a few two door configurations. The Malibu and Malibu Classic and the Laguna Type S-3 having two door cars for the Chevelle and of course that’s all there was for the Camaro. The Malibu units totaled out at 63,530 (21,804 – 6 cylinders/41,726 – V8s) with the Malibu Classic production at 131,455 (3,844 – 6’s and 127,611 – 8’s) and the Laguna Types S-3 (think NASCAR) 6,714.
NASCAR Laguna
75 Laguna
The Camaro came in the base model and the LT. There was the Rally Sport package which sources agree were about 7,000 produced. There is some issue with the total number of Camaro produced with number ranging from 141,629 to over 145K. But with other numbers like 145,755 had power steering and 29,359 with 6 cylinders and 116,430 with V-8s (totally 1445,789) We do know that there were 4,160 car built for exports.
1975 Camaro RS
Thanks for reading.
Tim
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Here’s a little 4TH of July twist for They Made How Many?
What’s more American then a Chevrolet?
Check it out:
This was a 1975 commercial and yes I know that other American cars (but feel free to remind me!!!! ) but this is just so American!!!!
You can see the a Vega, a Caprice, a Monza, a Nova and few other Chevy’s in the commercial.
Total American car manufacturing show that Chevy was #1 in car production with 1,755,773 units. Chevy was followed closely by Ford with 1,569,608, then a distant 3rd was Oldsmobile with 631,795 (Roughly 1 million less than Ford!!).
Out of the 1.7 million cars that Chevy produced there were some highlights. Take for instance the famous 1975 Cosworth Vega two door hatchback with a total of 2,061 cars produced.
Number-wise that was a very low production, but did you know the rarest car Chevy produced that year was the unfamous 1975 Vega Panel Express. Total production was 1,525!!!
The Electronic Gamblers’s Race came down to a final between the dragster of Mary Roach from Saint John, N.B., and the 1974 Chevy Vega of Rick Nowlan from Moncton, N.B., with Roach emerging victorious. The Junior Dragster class ran two divisions, and …
Collier, a detective with the Benton Police Department, captured his first national win in Baytown, Texas, in his 1972 Chevy Vega and is now sitting in the top 10 nationally in points. “You have hundreds of racers and you have people out there who’ve …
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