Razvan Calin
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Personal motto:
Don’t try. Be. Do. Live.
He’s been a field journalist, a TV producer, and a seafarer. Now he writes, finding this to be the closest to keeping wisely quiet.
Getting a degree in PR convinced him that trade job skills are more fun, but if all the schools Răzvan has been through taught him anything, it’s that he’ll never cease learning.
The Only Original General Lee To Jump Off-Screen Needs To Be Rescued From Deep Down South
2 Jul 2024, 22:04 UTC · By: Razvan Calin / What’s a General Lee? A defeated commander of the Confederate Army in the American Civil War, a hugely popular long-jump champion (and TV star) 1969 Dodge Charger. While the historical character gave the car its name, we’re only interes...
1966 H-Code Charger Is Coming Your Way in Two Months; Take or Hard Pass on This Hemi?
2 Jul 2024, 19:41 UTC · By: Razvan Calin / In 1966, interesting things happened in Detroit: the 427 big-inch big-Block V8 made landfall in the Corvette; Ford smacked Ferrari over the Le Mans laurels with the GT40; and the Street Hemi was released to the general public. It wasn’t the o...
Badge Engineering? Hennessey Unveils Patriotic 'Mammoth 400' Truck Based on 2024 RAM 1500
2 Jul 2024, 13:01 UTC · By: Razvan Calin / The Ram 1500 Laramie bids farewell to the HEMI V8 in style. Texas firepower style – and it’s not what you think. Yes, it’s fully automatic, but only the eight-speed transmission and nothing more. So, having holstered the ambiguiti...
1973 Ford Thunderbird With 24k Original Miles Is a Running, Driving 429 V8 Treasure Trove
2 Jul 2024, 10:45 UTC · By: Razvan Calin / ‘Big ol’ dinosaur does run good. I imagine it would really run good in a little car.’ If, of course, said prehistoric monster could fit in a little car. Let’s eliminate the confusion: the ancestral lizard referred to is a bi...
Dead Droptop 1970 Buick Wildcat Is a Rarity, Its Slant 455 V8 Wants Another Shot at Life
1 Jul 2024, 20:37 UTC · By: Razvan Calin / In the glorious history of wonderful Buick automobiles (and by that, I mean proper Buicks that made Americans proud of their nation and their car-making companies), the Wildcat has a special place, all for itself. It saw a short seven-year producti...
1972 Buick Skylark Begs Mercy, Hides Dirty Secrets Upfront, You Can Flintstone It Home
1 Jul 2024, 14:22 UTC · By: Razvan Calin / The Buick Skylark was a popular nameplate for the high-end General Motors division in the sixties and seventies. Still, the model was discontinued at the end of 1972 for two model years. The name reappeared in 1975 on a different platform, as the m...
Survivor 1955 Imperial Newport Hides Electric Upgrade To Get Its Magnificent Hemi V8 Going
1 Jul 2024, 11:45 UTC · By: Razvan Calin / In 1955, Chrysler Corporation introduced a new car brand, the luxurious Imperial. The name itself was nothing but old, having been used since 1926, but only as a series of Chrysler automobiles. By introducing the 100-million-dollar look design lang...
1968 Chevrolet SS 427 Is a Gorgeous Impala Pun With Original V8, Low Miles, Good Price
30 Jun 2024, 20:42 UTC · By: Razvan Calin / When the late sixties are considered concerning production cars' horsepower prowess, the generally accepted opinion is that the second-generation Hemi, with its 426 cubic inches (seven liters) and 425-horse punch, was the king. And it was true...
Restored 1970 Hemi 'Cuda Convertible Asks $2.6 Million, Is This Investment Car Worth it?
29 Jun 2024, 20:11 UTC · By: Razvan Calin / Few nameplates in the pantheon of automotive all-time greats could contest Plymouth’s supremacy to the throne of piston unicorns. Obviously, we’re not talking about a Valiant, but a moniker that lasted for ten straight years precisely a...
1965 Jeep Wagoneer With Nice V8 Surprise Sat Abandoned 42 Years, Gets Ready for Auction
28 Jun 2024, 20:59 UTC · By: Razvan Calin / Who leaves a perfectly good 1965 Jeep abandoned for 42 years straight? And in Canada, of all the places – a country famous for its numerous lakes and dazzling winters and for having the longest coastline on the planet. In other words, it is a...
Rolls-Royce Cullinan Drags Brabus G 63, Super-Rare Lambo Urus, and an EV Still Wins
28 Jun 2024, 17:03 UTC · By: Razvan Calin / The horsepower wars of the sixties were a mere water pistol shootout among kindergarteners compared to the modern-day piston-electric onslaught. Today, even a family car can pack a serious punch that is several hundred horsepower strong. But what r...
Rare 1985 Cadillac Eldorado Ragtop Is a Junkyard Gem, What Would You Pay To Restore It?
27 Jun 2024, 20:31 UTC · By: Razvan Calin / In 1976, Cadillac, like everyone else living in the Land of the Free, was celebrating two centuries of independence. The luxury division of General Motors was also saying goodbye to one of its most revered status-quo symbols – the droptop aut...
Mint 1957 Ford T-Bird Is Pure Heart Candy With a Little Secret Hiding Under the Hood
26 Jun 2024, 20:53 UTC · By: Razvan Calin / So much fun! The car is pretty responsive, the steering is very light, it’s very easy to steer, and it’s got power brakes. The rivalry between Ford and Chevrolet for domestic supremacy started long ago. It will end when the world no lon...
158k-Mile Survivor Shelby GT350H: One Owner Since '69, Last Wash in '80, Last Drive in '09
26 Jun 2024, 13:50 UTC · By: Razvan Calin / Following the immensely successful launch of the Mustang in 1964, Ford turned its sights to another segment of motoring – high-performance street-legal cars. With the racing program making headway at full speed (pun intended) under the collab...
2024 Shelby F-150: A $130K Beautified 400-HP F-150 Lariat, Guess What the 735-HP One Is
25 Jun 2024, 20:40 UTC · By: Razvan Calin / Fans of the muscle truck, rejoice and applaud the Shelby F-150 for 2024! The tuner announced that 800 units are slotted for assembly for the 2024 model year, with production already underway. There’s one X we still have to solve for in this h...
Five-Door Corvette Is the ZR1 Power Wagon We Need; You Can Only Drive It in Dreamland
25 Jun 2024, 15:42 UTC · By: Razvan Calin / When Chevrolet introduced the sportscar to the American motorist in January 1953, it became clear that Detroit had had enough European brands trumping American soil with their pompous attitude. The Corvette became a symbol of national pride, and se...
1969 GTO Judge Corpse With No Engine Asks Absurd Money, Comes With Four-Wheel Disc Brakes
24 Jun 2024, 20:50 UTC · By: Razvan Calin / The ‘Pontiac GTO’ cure managed to control the ‘lead foot’ epidemic of the sixties for a few short years (from 1964 until around 1969). Signs of an imminent incontrollable outbreak forced the General Motors division to releas...
1968 Pontiac GTO Burns to the Ground, Gets a Pressure Wash, Then Casually Drives 200 Miles
23 Jun 2024, 21:00 UTC · By: Razvan Calin / ‘These were a hot car in ’68. Car and Driver tested them into the low 14s on a bias-ply.’ The statement belongs to a man who’s driving the hottest car of all time – a 1968 Pontiac GTO. I’m not saying that the ent...
911 Carrera GTS Drag Races Itself, It's One-Tenth Faster Than Porsche's Official Claims
23 Jun 2024, 13:15 UTC · By: Razvan Calin / Porsche entered the electrified era of sportscar-making with the new 911, and the Germans are one step closer to taking the hybrid fight to the competition. Until the new 911 Turbo S comes out to play, we’ll have to settle for a generational ...
1963 Pontiac Le Mans Ragtop Emerges After 25 Years in a Barn With Only Half a V8 in It
22 Jun 2024, 20:50 UTC · By: Razvan Calin / Pontiac has been the oddball in the General Motors family, but not in a bad way. The division pioneered great ideas and concepts over the years. I'm not talking about the muscle car trend of the sixties. Even before the Collins-DeLorean-Gee tr...