1971 Camaro with a 418 ci LS3 V8
UMI Performance built this 1971 Camaro to test their suspension parts made at their company in Philipsburg, Pennsylvania. Under the hood sits 418 ci LS3 V8 built by Conklin Racing using a Texas Speed...
UMI Performance built this 1971 Camaro to test their suspension parts made at their company in Philipsburg, Pennsylvania. Under the hood sits 418 ci LS3 V8 built by Conklin Racing using a Texas Speed...
Mark Stielow’s 1969 Camaro “Tri-Tip” will be auctioned at Hemmings starting Nov 4th-13th. Under the hood sits a 405 ci small-block Chevy V8 built by Lingenfelter Performance Engineering with a Crower...
We often find ourselves saying, around here, “We don’t live on vintage muscle, alone.” Sure, you can substitute any strain of car culture for “vintage muscle,” but the point is, as much as we love ou...
This 1969 Camaro was built by several companies for tool maker Sidchrome. The project started at Lion Racing Supplies (LRS) in Warilla, New South Wales for the majority of work including body, powert...
From the seller’s description: Great 1991 survivor Camaro Z28 ! Vehicle had been garaged for 15 years by original owner (family friend) before we purchased it. All the mechanicals that needed work we...
This 1992 Camaro Z28 called “Back in Black” was built by Level 7 Motorsports in Marion, Illinois. Under the hood sits a LS3 V8 crate motor with Holley Dominator EFI producing 495 horsepower. The engi...
We come across some great vintage celluloid in our line of work. It’s one of the real joys of the job, y’know? And amidst the amazing hair styles and the bias-ply slicks and the magnesium wheels and ...
This 1985 Camaro IROC-Z called “Moe Dirt” was built by Hawks Motorsports in Easley, South Carolina. The Camaro is powered by a 388 ci LSX V8 built by Thompson Motorsports with a Magnuson TVS2300 supe...
This is Mike and Bonnie Rademacher’s amazing 1968 Camaro convertible. The project took three years to complete with the help of many people including C.J. Unis, Ryan Fox of Fox Automotive (body/paint...
This 1989 Camaro IROC-Z was built by owner Denny Villemure. Under the hood sits a 4.2 L Vortec 4200 inline-six with a Precision PT70GTQ turbocharger, 80 lb injectors, and PT1000 air-to-water intercoo...
While there’s nothing better than some great historic celluloid to get our little black hearts pumping, sometimes a video that’s nothing more than a pile of great old photos stitched together with a ...
It’s no secret that we’re losing dragstrips all across this great land. Why is that? Land values increasing? Housing developments being allowed to go up near tracks? People less interested in drag ra...
If you’re here, we don’t have to convince you that the first-gen Funny Car era was one of the coolest, if not craziest, in drag racing history. Social media is chock-full of great old photos and some...
1978 Plymouth Fury Police Pursuit (top); 1977 Chevrolet Camaro Z28 (bottom). Images by the author. During the summer of 1978, Foreigner’s Hot Blooded hit the airwaves, mixing it up with tunes from th...
This 1987 Camaro IROC-Z was built for Brad Bedsaul by Detroit Speed in Mooresville, North Carolina and Hawks Motorsports in Easley, South Carolina. Brad sent the Camaro first to Detroit Speed to rece...
This 1985 Camaro affectionately called “IROT Crapmaro” was built by Calvin Nelson. You might remember Calvin’s previous project, a 1962 Studebaker Lark with a turbo Vortec inline-six. This time aroun...
Craig Hardee sent his 1969 Camaro convertible to Detroit Speed in Mooresville, North Carolina to be rebuilt into a pro-touring machine. The Camaro riders on a full Detroit Speed suspension which incl...
VTG is known for building some of the wildest 4WD drag vehicles. You might remember us sharing their AWD Turbo C3 Corvette, or their AWD Twin-Turbo Camaro, or their newest creation, an AWD Evo with a...
The biggest news of the year happened away from the track. In October 1973, Saudi Arabia — controlled by OPEC — organized an oil embargo in retaliation for United States support of Israel during the ...
In 1968, the NHRA U.S. Nationals at Indy were recorded for a documentary produced by Hollywood’s Documentary Productions Inc. Not only is the hour-plus film an amazing capture of what drag racing was...
This 1970 Camaro called “Road Rage” was built by the Roadster Shop in Mundelein, Illinois. This project is a street version of their 1970 “Rampage” Camaro race car built in 2014. Road Rage uses simil...
When I first moved from the East Coast to California, I paid attention to the whispers of “hi-riders” I kept hearing at car shows in the East Bay region of the Northern California San Francisco Bay A...
Warick Meldrum wanted more power in his 1967 Camaro so he turned to an unlikely source, a turbocharged 4.0 L Barra inline-six from a Ford Falcon XR6 Turbo. He explained to Street Machine that he chos...
When Viking Performance wanted to transform their 1971 Camaro into the ultimate Pro-touring machine they turned Dick’s Hot Rod Shop in Lakeville, Minnesota. There the company built a custom chassis w...
Mark Bruski spent a lot of time and effort transforming his 1986 Camaro Z28 into a mean looking coupe ready to race down the quarter-mile. He started by replacing the tired factory 305 ci LB9 V8 with...