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.
Overhead Driveshaft Is the Most Brilliantly Absurd Build You'll Ever See Because Russia
9 Jun 2024, 20:59 UTC · By: Razvan Calin / Mechanical innovation has stood at the forefront of technological progress over the past century and a half or so since the automobile pushed the horse out of the streets and sent it neighing to the deli market. Sometimes, engineers nailed it from ...
This 11k-Mile 1962 Corvette Hides Spicy Quarter-Mile Surprise, Has Barely Moved Since 1989
9 Jun 2024, 17:57 UTC · By: Razvan Calin / 1962 was an anniversary year for one of the most emblematic names in American motoring history. The sportscar turned the page to two digits of age – the Corvette was celebrating its tenth year of production, and Chevrolet brass hats were rubb...
This Rare 1970 Olds Toronado GT Is a Painful Disgrace So Cheap It's Basically a Giveaway
8 Jun 2024, 22:54 UTC · By: Razvan Calin / Again, we revolve around 1970. Can somebody please explain the astrological configuration for that year? That way, we can better understand what happened with Detroit and when we will experience another gathering of fortunes of the same magnitude. ...
Rare 1957 Dodge Coronet Lancer Sat 37 Years Untouched, Now Lives Again With a Hemi Heart
8 Jun 2024, 17:53 UTC · By: Razvan Calin / Chrysler speared ahead of the pack in the mid-50s, proposing its famous design language that paved the way for the American industry for the rest of the decade and influenced the early sixties automobiles. Virgil Exner was the ChryCo head of design...
Ferrari Purosangue Bails Out From Drag Race To Avoid Bloodbath, Still Wins in the End
8 Jun 2024, 12:57 UTC · By: Razvan Calin / Finally, the multi-million-dollar SUV drag race everyone was waiting for is done, and the Ferrari Purosangue won. Sit down, Italians; your car isn’t a Sport Utility Vehicle (per your own boisterous gesticulation and claims), so it’s not...
Venom F5 Revolution Roadster in Exposed Carbon Is a One-in-Three Mortal Sin for Demigods
7 Jun 2024, 19:39 UTC · By: Razvan Calin / What’s better than a one-in-twelve hypercar? An exposed carbon variant that will only be built in three examples, just so that the original twelve owners will suddenly feel what, common? That might be a mischievousness to whoever has three mi...
Ancient Willys Jeep Beats Humvee in Off-Road Test, and It Wasn't Even Trying
7 Jun 2024, 18:28 UTC · By: Razvan Calin / ‘The Jeep, the Dakota, and the Landing Craft were the three tools that won the war.’ Dwight Eisenhower, Supreme Commander of the Allied Expeditionary Force in Europe in World War II and later the 34th President of the United States, put...
Restored 1968 Barracuda Formula S Is a Rare 383-V8 Mopar Jewel and Costs How Much?
6 Jun 2024, 22:01 UTC · By: Razvan Calin / The second generation of the Plymouth Barracuda ‘pony’ car hit the market in 1966 as a 1967 model and went into retirement at the end of the 1969 production year. Three short years, overlapping precisely with the era’s second-plac...
1960 Survivor Cadillac Eldorado Biarritz Is Absolute Eye Candy, Had One Owner Since 1975
5 Jun 2024, 20:02 UTC · By: Razvan Calin / 1960 Cadillac offered two drop-top models: the 62 Convertible and the Eldorado Biarritz. Together, they amassed a little over 15,000 units of the total production of 142,184 automobiles recorded by the luxury division of General Motors. The cheap o...
One-Off Off-Road Dodge Viper RT-10 Does Desert Donuts, Drag Races Ranger Raptor, Airplane
5 Jun 2024, 11:36 UTC · By: Razvan Calin / Three months ago, we were treated with our first encounter with the Dodge Viper RT-10 Off-Road Edition. If you’re scrolling through the neurological archive file cabinets looking for that specific moment when Chrysler released that particular...
1968 Dodge Charger Hides Big Surprise Upfront, Nicer One in Crate, the Price Is Tear Gas
4 Jun 2024, 21:29 UTC · By: Razvan Calin / Anyone rolling in cash they don’t need, and they’d rather burn into a classic Mopar instead of paying for the kids’ college tuition? Here’s the perfect opportunity to waste 63,000 bucks in one click, and it comes in the shap...
1956 Buick Special Has Nice Treats Under the Hood, Shows How Great America Used To Be
4 Jun 2024, 15:25 UTC · By: Razvan Calin / 1955 was Buick’s best year in all its half-century history, with over 738,000 cars produced. The General Motors division leaped a staggering 300,000 units over the 1954 volumes, and fortunes appeared to have turned their faces toward the manu...
Family-Owned 1965 Barracuda Refused To Die for 21 Years, the Slant Six Is Barely Alive
3 Jun 2024, 20:58 UTC · By: Razvan Calin / 1964 is probably the turning point in Detroit’s timeline of momentous events: the muscle car emerged, courtesy of the Pontiac Motor Division from General Motors, and a whole new car culture was born. However, that year also marks the birth of...
Berlinetta Boxer Barn Find: Buys Ferrari in '95, Drives It a Year, Parks It for 28
2 Jun 2024, 20:35 UTC · By: Razvan Calin / Ed Weaver, from Dalton, Georgia, is a name that might not find a strong echo within the broad car collectors’ society of today, but the name was a definitive trademark back in the 1980s and early 1990s. An affluent carpet businessman, Weaver ...
Rare 1967 Mustang GT 390 Abandoned in a Field for 16 Years Is Heading for a Restoration
1 Jun 2024, 22:51 UTC · By: Razvan Calin / In its third model year on the market, the Ford Mustang began experiencing a decline in sales. 1967 was still a good year for Ford Motor Company’s marvelous pony; it just wasn’t as good as the previous seasons. Still, over 472,000 units...
1,800-HP Australian Sedan v 640-HP Korean EV: What's Not To Like About This Drag Race?
31 May 2024, 19:55 UTC · By: Razvan Calin / Drag racing might be a popular American motoring pastime, but it’s a wonderful contribution to the universal acclaim of piston prowess the world over. The quarter-mile has grown to become the yardstick by which all performance is measured, wh...
Chevelle SS 454 LS6 Asks Ridiculous Money; It's Not Even an Original Survivor or a Ragtop
31 May 2024, 10:35 UTC · By: Razvan Calin / There aren’t many two-letter combinations in the muscle car pantheon with the ring and allure of the Super Sport acronym that has been stamped on some of the most notorious Chevy products since the 1961 Impala SS. Camaro, Nova, El Camino, Mon...
The Ultimate Super Sport: L'Ultime Is the 500th and Last Bugatti Chiron Ever Assembled
30 May 2024, 13:09 UTC · By: Razvan Calin / To this day, the Chiron name bears a special symbolism within the Formula One universe – the Monegasque racing driver Louis Chiron still holds the title of the oldest driver to compete in a Grand Prix race at age 56. Bugatti chose the name as...
23k-Mile Trailer Queen 1970 Barracuda Hemi Has Rare Options. Is It As Original as It Says?
29 May 2024, 12:25 UTC · By: Razvan Calin / In 1970, when Plymouth’s reworked Barracuda came around in its third (and final) generation, no one foresaw the status some of those cars would attain after a few decades of aging. The most dramatic transformations occurred with the Hemi-powe...
1970 Challenger vs. 2020 Challenger Drag Race: All-HEMI Battle Between R/T Father and Son
28 May 2024, 13:05 UTC · By: Razvan Calin / The Challenger is one of Dodge’s most fabled nameplates (right behind the Charger), and the model's first generation is quite undeniably the star of its Mopar bloodline. That’s not to say that the second generation of the fabled po...