Dude, Where’s My Car? At the Crime Scene.
In Shakespeare’s Hamlet, Lord Polonius says the now famous line, “Neither a borrower nor a lender be.” As much as we tend to think about this phrase in relation to borrowing or lending money to friends and family, the same goes for tools and, yes, even our precious vehicles. In all these cases, it feels nice to help out those who matter most to us, but with our vehicles, it can be a point of pride, but at what cost?
Leaps of Faith & Driving Change
A while back, our friend Casudi introduced us to Chris Holstrom out of Washington state. He grew up in a gearhead family; his father a professional mechanic and his brothers Mustang enthusiasts. In 2007, he took a leap of faith – he started his own vehicle restoration/customization business: Chris Holstrom Concepts. Have you taken such a leap? How do we, as gearheads, drive change in the automotive culture?
Epic EV Conversion Time: Keith’s Corvette
The Chevy Corvette. A storied model with a legacy of high performance known worldwide. Equally at-home cruising Main Street, ripping down the quarter-mile, enduring Le Mans, and now, thanks to Keith Stegath, green as green can be in true EV style. What possesses a man to convert a Corvette to electric power? Here’s the story.
DSMSO19: The Vanity Plates
Every year we go to the DSM/EVO Shootout, my wife likes to snap pictures of all the personalized (vanity) license plates on the cars around town and track. It’s not uncommon to come across a thread on your favorite forum where someone is asking for feedback on their own vanity plate ideas, we thought these would be worth sharing.
Cruise In, Netherlands
There are so many meetings during the summer time, you could visit one every day if you wanted to. How do you decide which one to go to? How do you know it’s worth a two hour drive? Well, you look into the history of that meeting. We did this as well, and found one meeting being held every Thursday from May till October and has been around for almost eight years. Every week there are at least 50 cars. Even on rainy Thursdays. What makes this meeting so special? Why do people from Belgium, Germany and even Luxembourg come to the Netherlands to visit this meeting on Thursday evenings? Let’s find out!
Tony’s 1972 Chevy Cheyenne
Simple and clean was Tony’s main motto when he decided to restore his 1972 Chevy Cheyenne. We think it turned out awesome and hope you do to! Thanks Tony for sharing “Sweet Pea” with us.
Could you build your own Chevy Volt ?
Well, yes you could, but would it be under $33,000 ? and have similar components and electric range ?
Lets have a look. (disclaimer: this post turned into a fudged math laden beast in a hurry, all figures are estimates, but prices are real. I could be 100% fatally wrong about all of this :)
Mark Selig’s 1990 Corvette Project
Awhile back Gearbox Magazine asked our readers what they would change on Gearbox. Your feedback said you wanted interviews on projects not just completed builds. With that – here is your first project interview. Mark’s taking what Chevy did for the Corvette and making it better and . . . faster.
Brent’s 1982 Chevrolet Corvette
In this interview, Brent tells us about his 1982 Corvette that he did a LS1, that’s right LS1, swap in. This is the best of mixing the old with the new!
