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Hemmings Find of the Day – 1991 Chevrolet Suburban Silverado

When shopping for a used vehicle, there’s no such thing as having too much information about its past. After reading the seller’s narrative of this 1991 Chevrolet Suburban Silverado, for sale on Hemm...

Chevrolet Camaro Trans Am

Leichter Vorteil Die Trans-Am-Rennserie war in den 60er Jahren etwas vom Besten, was der Motorsport zu bieten hatte. Es war der grosse Kampf der «big three», die Regeln waren einfach und die Fahrzeug...

Midweek Matinee: White Magic, 1940s

All photos are frame grabs from video below. By the mid-1940s, it seems to us that most of the obvious period catch phrases had already been used up due to the prodigious number of film shorts being ...

Aero War II – Chevy ups the ante with the Aero Coupe

Chevy Monte Carlo SS Aero Coupe rear backlight; image by Terry McGean. It was bound to happen–the factory-backed on-track battles had returned by 1986. The melee for track supremacy that took place l...

Copper cooled calamity: The 1923 Chevrolet Series C

Photo from the writer’s collection. After Henry Ford almost singlehandedly created the low-priced automobile category with the Model T, the rest of the industry found itself playing catch-up with mod...

Midweek Matinee: The Way You Want It, 1950

All photos are frame grabs from video below. Who says Jam Handy couldn’t produce a straight-forward advertisement for Chevrolet? We can debunk that myth right here: This is an eight-and-change-minute...

Midweek Matinee: Something for Nothing, 1940

All photos are frame grabs from video below. Are you still kind of fuzzy on that whole fuel-energy-power process that goes on (or not) within circa-1940 internal combustion automobile engines? Well t...

Ed Welburn, GM’s VP of Global Design, announces retirement

Ed Welburn. Photos courtesy General Motors. Inspired by cars seen at the Philadelphia Auto Show, like the Cadillac Cyclone concept and the 1959 Corvette, 11-year-old Ed Welburn sent a letter to Gener...

Before the Blue Flame: The 1929-1936 Chevrolet Six

Images courtesy Old Car Manual Project. The first-generation Chevrolet inline six has long lived in the shadow of the Ford flathead V-8 – so much so that many don’t realize that it’s a different crea...

Hemmings Find of the Day – 1977 Chevrolet Nova

It’s not perfect, and it’s the opposite of flashy, but this base 1977 Chevrolet Nova four-door sedan for sale on Hemmings.com – equipped with a six-cylinder engine, automatic transmission, bench seat...

When Chevrolet wrote the book, or at least the pamphlet, on performance

The close of the 1970s wasn’t exactly the high-water mark for performance cars from American manufacturers, yet that didn’t keep automakers from marketing them. In 1979, Chevrolet produced a consumer...

Chevrolet Impala SS 409

Gazelle – bärenstark Der Impala begann seine Karriere unter nicht besonders begeisternden Vorzeichen: 1958 war er eine Sonderversion des Bel Air, eine Art Versuchsballon von Chevrolet, ein bisschen t...

Chevrolet Camaro ZL1

small block Es geht fröhlich weiter im Wettrüsten der amerikanischen Hersteller. Gut, Dodge hat da mit dem 770-PS-Hellcat mal ein sehr deutliches Zeichen gesetzt, Mustang hat mit dem Shelby GT350 ein...

Four-Links – first Porsche, first Sebring, first street sweepers, last Studebakers

Other vehicles designed and built by Ferdinand Porsche going back to the turn of the century have adopted the Porsche name in the years since, but the first to actually wear the Porsche name, accordi...

Hemmings Find of the Day – 1970 Chevrolet Monte Carlo SS 454

A while back, we ran a piece on the 1970 Chevrolet Monte Carlo sale brochure, and it generated a surprising amount of discussion. Much of it was centered on the highest-performance variant, the Monte...

Hemmings Find of the Day – 1964 Chevrolet Chevelle Malibu

In its day, this six-cylinder 1964 Chevrolet Chevelle Malibu four-door sedan for sale on Hemmings.com was the equivalent of a Toyota Camry: produced in huge quantities for mass consumption, generic a...

Stuck in the ’70s: time machine 1976 Cosworth Vega heads to auction

1976 Chevrolet Cosworth Vega. Photos courtesy Auctions America. Chevrolet’s Cosworth Vega could have been the car that attracted enthusiast drivers to the Vega line, and it could have shown the world...

Hemmings Find of the Day – 1963 Chevrolet Corvair 95

The good: This 1963 Corvair 95 panel van for sale on Hemmings.com has a good mechanical foundation and everything appears present and accounted for. The not so good: It’s rough, with plenty of rust t...

Four-Links – Stevens Lakester, top 10 Chevrolet race engines, Coleman’s bricks, beautiful bucks

Brooks Stevens fans are generally Brooks Stevens fans because the industrial designer took an out-of-left-field approach to many of his designs, and none came from further afield than his Evinrude La...

Hemmings Find of the Day – 1982 Chevrolet Corvette Caballista

Some cars really speak for themselves, and some cars have a lot to say when it comes to speaking for themselves. Then there’s this 1982 Chevrolet Corvette Caballista for sale on Hemmings.com, a Les D...

Hemmings Find of the Day – 1965 Chevrolet Suburban

As improbable as a rust-free original-body Sixties GM truck of any sort from any part of the world is, here we see a 1965 Chevrolet Suburban for sale on Hemmings.com that meets just those criteria. N...

Auf dem Highway ist die Hölle los: So bringt der neue Camaro den Asphalt zum Kochen und das Blut in Wallung

Less weight and more power combines for performance success. With weight savings of up to 390 pounds (177 kg), the all-new Camaro resets performance benchmarks for the segment. Er trägt zwar die Enge...

Hemmings Find of the Day – 1928 Chevrolet Sprint Car

It isn’t likely that this 1928 Chevrolet Sprint Car, for sale on Hemmings.com, has a rich competition history. Though the current owner isn’t specific about the car’s history, it appears to be a cont...

Chevrolet Abetting Ford Racers: Spotting a Frontenac cylinder head in the fields of Hershey

Frontenac performance equipment; image by the author Until recently, Chevy and Ford battled for supremacy annually, both at the showroom and on race tracks. This decades-long rivalry, in turn, has le...