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.
Mint Numbers-Matching 1969 Camaro Z/28 Finds New Home After Three Decades With One Owner
22 Jun 2024, 12:55 UTC · By: Razvan Calin / What is it with 1970 lately that it keeps popping up on my radar in all sorts of shapes and sizes, from a Pontiac Catalina to an Oldsmobile Toronado GT and now this 1969 Camaro? Hold your keyboards holstered; it’s all going to become reasonab...
This 700-HP Lingenfelter Suburban Drove 787 Miles To Beat a Corvette in 13 Seconds
21 Jun 2024, 22:52 UTC · By: Razvan Calin / It takes a Chevy to beat a Chevy, but it has to be one helluva Chevrolet product to show its taillights to a Corvette. There are amendments to this statement, such as the age and size of said vehicles, not to mention aftermarket mods, which would c...
1970 Buick GSX Stage 1: The Muscle Car That Was Far Cooler (and Faster) Than Any Hemi
21 Jun 2024, 20:49 UTC · By: Razvan Calin / ‘These things are really high torque and they really run. It’s a beast to drive, I’ll be honest with you. It’s unbelievable. It’s scary sometimes.’ It’s also very cool – in more ways than one. So cool...
Old Cars Are Better: Five-Cylinder V8 1970 Pontiac Catalina Takes $100 To Fix and Drive
21 Jun 2024, 17:09 UTC · By: Razvan Calin / Out of almost 691,000 cars assembled during the 1970 model year, the Catalina was Pontiac’s best-seller by far, with nearly one-third of total production on its nameplate. The Catalina was produced from 1950 to 1981, first a...
Costs an Arm and a Leg, but You Can't Drive This Rare AAR Cuda Four-Speed Without Those
20 Jun 2024, 14:16 UTC · By: Razvan Calin / Plymouth started the pony car fashion, but it completely surrendered the spotlights to the Ford Mustang just two weeks after the Barracuda debuted on April 1, 1964. It took a long five-and-a-half years before the nameplate countered the Mustang&rsq...
The Arsenal Is a $700K Rezvani Armored SUV for the Rich To Survive an Asteroid Impact
19 Jun 2024, 22:43 UTC · By: Razvan Calin / The Rezvani Arsenal is here, the latest model in the zombie-apocalypse-ready lineup of bulletproof overlanders from the Californian make. With an optional composite armor rated to B6 level, the new battle SUV fends off attackers armed with AR15s or...
1966 Plymouth Belvedere II Hides a Hemi Under That Hood Scoop, Care To Take It Home?
19 Jun 2024, 20:57 UTC · By: Razvan Calin / The Street Hemi saw its first application in 1966, with 2,714 big-blocks distributed unevenly (some would say unfairly) between the Plymouth and Dodge divisions of Chrysler Motors Corporation. The year is important for Mopar fans because another on...
Rare Gem: 1979 F-150 Free Wheeling Gets First Wash in 17 Years, Hides Sad Tranny News
19 Jun 2024, 15:34 UTC · By: Razvan Calin / What’s the most popular American-made vehicle of all time? Correct, the pickup truck. And which make and model is the all-time best-seller? That’s an even easier one – the Ford F-series sold over 41.5 million vehicles since its de...
1961 Chevy Bel Air Bubbletop Hides Nothing, Flashes 409 V8 to Anyone (for the Right Money)
18 Jun 2024, 15:28 UTC · By: Razvan Calin / The Chevrolet Bel Air was a long-lasting staple of the Bowtie division of General Motors, lasting for just over three decades. However, the general consensus would regard 1955 as the first year of the nameplate. The mid-fifties are probably the bes...
One-of-None Ford T-Bird Is a Cool Restoration, Can You Tell the Model Year by Looks Alone?
18 Jun 2024, 10:43 UTC · By: Razvan Calin / Have you ever heard of Kelly Castle from Phoenix, Arizona? No? Good, let’s talk about him for a while. He is the Singing Mechanic – because he is a car mechanic by trade and a singer at heart– and he is known among a particular ci...
Turbo 1,700-Whp Viper SRT-10 Runs Mid-Tens Quarter-Mile, Sets a New National Record
17 Jun 2024, 20:57 UTC · By: Razvan Calin / If we were to make an unlikely ‘American Cars That Need No Introduction,’ the Dodge Viper would probably take the number one spot, a quarter-mile ahead of whoever would be the first loser. The mindboggling piece of Detroit speed is an a...
1970 Ford Torino GT Is a SoCal Muscle Car, Is It Original Enough To Be Worth Its Price?
16 Jun 2024, 16:34 UTC · By: Razvan Calin / Ford Motor Company drew a two-edged sword in 1964 when the Mustang rolled out and grabbed everyone else's attention, robbing the Plymouth Barracuda of the title of the first ‘pony’ car ever. By the end of the decade, the stallion w...
Stolen, Recovered, Abandoned: 1984 Camaro Z28 Comes Back to Life After Years in a Barn
16 Jun 2024, 13:35 UTC · By: Razvan Calin / 1984 is a nightmarish vision of an absolutist, meaninglessly bureaucratic world and one poor stiff's attempt to find individuality in one of George Orwell's best-sellers. It is also a fabulous year in the Chevrolet calendar, as the Camaro...
One-of-None 1961 Chevrolet Nomad 454 Is a Rare Final Model-Year 'Resto-Done-Right' Sleeper
15 Jun 2024, 15:10 UTC · By: Razvan Calin / 1961 was a transitional year for Chevrolet, with the introduction of the new 409 cubic-inch big-block V8 (a five-year performance staple for the Bowtie that was retired in 1965) and the discontinuation of the Nomad model. The station wagon nameplat...
China Closing In for the Kill: Smart Is Pushing Its Upcoming Electric SUV to Nearly 640 HP
14 Jun 2024, 19:14 UTC · By: Razvan Calin / Nowadays, ‘smart’ is an attribute nearly all car manufacturers like to appraise in their products as if it were something extraordinary and absolutely, quintessentially, vitally cherished by buyers. But Smart has been the talk of the tr...
AMG G 63 Pays Homage to Australian Snow (and Other Surfaces) With a $28K Limited Edition
14 Jun 2024, 18:04 UTC · By: Razvan Calin / Australia and snow – this combination doesn’t seem to match (unless you’re a. from Australia, b. passionate about geography, or c. extra fun at parties). Common lore has it that Australia is a red, scorching desert where every sin...
Original Owner Bought a Shelby Mustang GT500KR Twice, 33 Years Apart, Is Now Selling It
13 Jun 2024, 21:26 UTC · By: Razvan Calin / Rare classic cars are not to be passed around, like the cranberry sauce at the family Thanksgiving dinner. Usually, these gems enjoy long-term ownership, and when they change hands, it’s for solid reasons – and it’s not for scorin...
His First Car Was a 1967 Chrysler Newport; 32 Years Later, He Got This Identical Survivor
12 Jun 2024, 20:47 UTC · By: Razvan Calin / Sometimes, life turns out well for people, and lucky souls get to deal with moral dilemmas such as ‘What car should I drive today?’ or stuff along that line. Paul Habura, a lifelong Chicagoan, is one of those gearheads who had his valve...
74k-Mile Survivor 1959 Impala Flat-Top Has Rare, Pricey Speed Option; V8 Still Runs Strong
12 Jun 2024, 12:57 UTC · By: Razvan Calin / ‘It is very hard to find 59 Chevys that are, and always have been, rust-free. Four-door flat tops have a lot of possibilities to meet any person's personal taste in building a custom car: ad air ride, bags, hydraulics, metal flake paint,...
1970 Pontiac GTO Sports Original 455 V8, Hides Expensive Options Inside Out and Around
10 Jun 2024, 21:31 UTC · By: Razvan Calin / Here we go again – back to when gas was cheap, cars were pretty, and America was the biggest carmaker on Planet Piston. Not only that, but it made heaps of cool machines every year, icons of the automotive universe in their own right. Sadly, ...