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.
1970 Challenger R/T Is a California Car With Rare Spec; Ugly V8 Truth Doesn't Sell Easy
1 May 2024, 20:56 UTC · By: Razvan Calin / Introduced on September 25, 1969, as a 1970 model year, the all-new E-body Dodge Challenger became an instant classic, leaping up to the first step of the podium right alongside its muscle car big Dodge brother, the Charger. Naturally, the newly in...
WhistlinDiesel Fails To Destroy a Car on the First Try – a Mustang GT CS Is Not Having It
1 May 2024, 18:02 UTC · By: Razvan Calin / Generally, automakers test their products extensively in various scenarios to ensure the vehicles are up to the tasks for which they are built. That’s the key phrase here – Lamborghini doesn’t rate its supercars by their towing ca...
Original, Survivor, and Gorgeously Ugly: 1962 Dodge Dart 440 Carries an Expensive Secret
30 Apr 2024, 23:56 UTC · By: Razvan Calin / The early sixties were not kind to Chrysler Corporation’s Dodge division, particularly because one catastrophic hearsay from five years before turned out to be dead wrong. In short, the Dodge Dart suffered immensely from a 1957 rumor that Che...
Stunning One-Owner 1964 Mustang With 700k Miles for Sale, It's the Steal of the Millennium
30 Apr 2024, 21:00 UTC · By: Razvan Calin / “Not having my Mustang anymore would be hard to fathom. I know the day is going to come when we have to finally separate. We are now both quite old in terms of years, and I want to enjoy the remaining time with the old car while I still can.&...
Why Buy Three Demon 170s, When You Can Have a 1-in-9 1970 Coronet R/T (It's Not Original)
29 Apr 2024, 22:53 UTC · By: Razvan Calin / The Coronet is one of Dodge’s most undeservingly less talked-about nameplates despite its crucial contribution to its image and reputation. Over the years, the Coronet served as the foundation on which the ‘66 Charger was developed; it ...
1,000-HP Godzilla GT-R Battles 1,000-HP BMW M5, and It Doesn't End Well for the Wicked
29 Apr 2024, 14:05 UTC · By: Razvan Calin / Nissan really nailed its rivals to the wall when it released the GT-R nameplate, first as a (much) sportier version of the Skyline and later as a standalone model that enclosed the holy trinity: low price, high performance, heaps of tuning possibil...
Russians Make a 240-Lb Set of Mud and Snow Tires Out of 12,000 Nails, Get a Flat Tire
28 Apr 2024, 18:43 UTC · By: Razvan Calin / Steel is a great material, a foundation block of modern civilization's vastly intricate construct. However, despite its universality, the iron-carbon alloy has certain limitations that prohibit its use in several applications. For example, one...
Original, One-Owner 1978 Corvette Pace Car Has 293 Miles; Is It a Failed Flip, or What?
27 Apr 2024, 20:56 UTC · By: Razvan Calin / As the most popular brand of the once-biggest auto manufacturer on Planet Piston, Chevrolet was bound to lay down a few nameplates that could run ahead of the pack at the brickyard in Indianapolis. Curiously, America’s Sportscar only got the ...
Super-Rare 1967 Olds 442 With W30 Muscle Smokes Tires Any Day of the Week, Twice on Sunday
26 Apr 2024, 20:16 UTC · By: Razvan Calin / “With only 500 being made, you don’t see ’em too often.” To be accurate, five hundred-two units, it’s close enough as it is. The numbers represent the production run of a famous option package, the hottest numbers of t...
Hellcat vs Demon Is the All-Challenger Muscle Car Drag Race That Can Only End One Way
26 Apr 2024, 12:13 UTC · By: Razvan Calin / A little over half a century ago, people with absolutely zero understanding of cars decided that the automobile was a major contributing factor to atmospheric pollution and that it should be crucified. Well, luckily, they didn’t succeed in th...
Super-Rare Six-Cylinder 1969 Rebel SST Last Ran in 1989, Thinks Smoked Tires Taste Best
26 Apr 2024, 07:25 UTC · By: Razvan Calin / Probably one of the greatest engines ever to come out of Detroit was two cylinders short of muscle fame, made by a brand that no longer is with us today. Also, it cared very little about what others thought of it (but cared a lot about what its own...
Twin-Turbo Cyber Punk 1968 Camaro Is Ready for an Alien Invasion From the CGI Alterverse
23 Apr 2024, 10:35 UTC · By: Razvan Calin / ‘Would You Daily Drive a Full-Size Hot Wheels? Yes, but only if you make it a mad Twin-Turbo Camaro if you could.’ In an alternate universe, this conversation will make all the sense in the world. Since we can access other dimensional r...
MG EXE181: China's 225+ Mph Secret EV Weapon To Hunt Down Hypercars and Speed Records
23 Apr 2024, 08:39 UTC · By: Razvan Calin / What has four electric motors, one seat, and can do at least 225 miles per hour in a straight line? No, not a fighter jet – although that would fit the electric motor bill if we counted the actuators for the plane’s various systems. It&...
'Restored' Is the New 'Survivor:' 1970 Torino GT Ragtop Has Treats in Store for New Owner
22 Apr 2024, 20:38 UTC · By: Razvan Calin / Usually, cars and alcoholic beverages don’t go well together, but this 1970 Ford Torino GT convertible could prove us wrong. I don’t mean to imply that driving under the influence would be exonerated while at the wheel of this automobil...
Lucid v Tesla Drag Race, Episode 'One More' Shows Exactly Why Time Is Money
22 Apr 2024, 09:20 UTC · By: Razvan Calin / The perfect drag race doesn't exist. It never did, and it never will—unless, of course, humanity sets an ultimate goal of its existence to move to the quantum physics realm of simultaneity. Then, we'll be able to stage the ideal rac...
1965 Chevelle SS Sat 40 Years, Comes Back to Life Burnout-Style; the 350-HP V8 Is Immortal
21 Apr 2024, 21:59 UTC · By: Razvan Calin / Pontiac set the pace for the sixties when it released the GTO option for the LeMans in 1964, with the hottest option coming out on top of the pack with 348 hp from a 389 cubic-inch V8. Those weren’t bad numbers for a mid-size automobile, but ...
Coil Springs Tires on G-Class Mercedes: One Russian Way of Going Places (Not College)
21 Apr 2024, 19:44 UTC · By: Razvan Calin / Charles Goodyear did a fine job when he vulcanized rubber and paved the way for the pneumatic tire. That was 180 years ago, in 1844, and things haven’t changed much since. Thankfully, the wheels are still round, and the tires are still made o...
Corvette Trinity Purchase: A 1989 Callaway Twin-Turbo and Two Rare C2 Convertibles
21 Apr 2024, 18:31 UTC · By: Razvan Calin / The Corvette’s second generation was a short-lived production run that debuted in 1963 and ended in 1967, just five model years later. It saw several important changes in the spirit of America’s sportscar. The biggest changes were proba...
Demon 170 Drags Ferrari 812; Who Would've Known Cowboys Like Italian Food?
20 Apr 2024, 18:18 UTC · By: Razvan Calin / What’s the one purpose Dodge made the Challenger Demon 170 for? Exactly, to put on a shiny crown of quarter-mile Ws on the 3,300 owners who got one. That’s it. It’s not built for school runs (it would be very hard for a six-year-o...
10k-Mile Family Heirloom 1966 Buick Wildcat Is So Original It Still Rolls On Factory Tires
20 Apr 2024, 16:15 UTC · By: Razvan Calin / Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company must have done a fantastic job in February 1966; there’s no other explanation for the outstanding durability of this set of four Power Cushion tires still rolling under the heft of an impeccable 1966 Buick Wil...