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American Motors built the Ambassador as its flagship for eighteen model years, and 1966 was the year the gamble finally paid off, with sales climbing to roughly 71,000 from under 19,000 just two years earlier. The DPL hardtop sat at the very top of that range with reclining buckets and AMC’s largest V8. Here is why an unrestored survivor from a brand this overlooked is genuinely harder to find than a big-name muscle car.
In November 2016, a Ford F-450 reclaimed the Guinness World Record for Largest Flag Pulled by a Moving Vehicle, towing a 4,124-square-foot American flag around Homestead-Miami Speedway to beat a Chevrolet Silverado’s earlier record by nearly 1,000 square feet. The Super Duty’s 440-horsepower, 925-lb-ft Power Stroke diesel V-8 got credit for the pull, which stretched well past the minimum distance required to set the new mark. It’s proof that truck bragging rights aren’t only settled at the drag strip.
Alf’s 1965 Chevy II Nova SS still wears its original California dealer plates, decades after Hovey-Dallas Chevrolet first sold it — only now it’s a familiar sight near Seaview Road outside Adelaide, Australia, following a 2008 import. The car runs its factory 283 V8 and PowerGlide transmission, kept close to stock except for dual Flowmaster mufflers and a fresh set of mags. Read on to see how a documented, three-owner Nova crossed an ocean and stayed true to its roots.
This 1971 Chevrolet Camaro is the fifth car “Hotrod” Ronnie Miller has pulled from a secret rescue spot he calls the Honey Hole — moss on the fender, a caved bumper, and years of neglect included. Unlike so many cars from the same field, this one is getting a second chance instead of a trip to the crusher. Viewers in the comments recognize its split-bumper front end from their own first cars, and one shares a moving memory of an uncle’s own 1970-and-a-half Camaro Z. Watch the rescue and see what’s next for this survivor.
Chevrolet built the 1969 Nova SS with the L78 396, a 375-horsepower solid-lifter big block, and then left it out of every official sales brochure. Buyers had to know to ask for it by code. Enough of them did that it accounted for nearly a third of Nova SS production that year. Read on for what the engine really was, why Chevy stayed quiet, and how to tell a genuine car from a clone.
Chevy and Ford owners have been trading friendly insults since long before group chats made it easy, and the rivalry behind this video goes back further than most fans realize. It traces to 1964, when the Mustang caught Chevrolet flat-footed and forced the Camaro into existence. Heres where the century-old feud actually started.
This 1970 Camaro started life as an ordinary factory 350 SS before a trip to the Dick Harrell Performance Center turned it into a 454-powered rarity, and it survives today unrestored, with roughly 6,000 original miles. Commenters pick apart everything from its likely 4.88:1 rear gear to whether those tires are period-correct. See the full breakdown of one of the Brothers Collection’s standout cars.
This countdown of Chevrolet’s greatest engines sparked exactly the kind of debate its title promises, with viewers immediately questioning why the small-block 350 didn’t make the cut and disputing the technical details behind the top pick. See which engines made the list, and decide for yourself whether the ranking holds up.
In the summer of 2017 Chevrolet sent a 2018 Camaro ZL1 1LE around the 12.9-mile Nordschleife with a six-speed manual gearbox and production Goodyear tyres, and stopped the clock at 7:16.04. That lap beat a Ferrari 488 GTB, a Nissan GT-R and a Mercedes SLS AMG, and left only one American production car ahead of it. The margin over the automatic ZL1 was 13.56 seconds. Read on to find out what actually made the difference.
Alux.com runs down fifteen facts about Chevrolet, who really founded the brand, the most expensive Corvette ever sold, and what the bowtie logo might actually stand for. The comment section did not just fact-check the list, one viewer added the Corvair, America’s only mass-produced air-cooled rear-engine car, to it. Watch to see how many of the fifteen you already knew.
One April 2018 news cycle delivered three very different performance bets at once: a turbocharged four-cylinder Camaro finally earning a 1LE badge, a BMW M2 Competition borrowing its engine from the M3/M4, and a Buick electric SUV concept promising supercar-quick acceleration. None of these would have made sense as performance news a decade earlier.
Chevrolet built more SS 396 Chevelles in 1969 than in any other year of the option’s run, more than 86,000 of them, and yet keeping one genuinely big-block powered five decades later is its own kind of stubbornness. Jerry McLean named his build Rats Forever, and anyone who knows what a rat motor is already understands the entire philosophy. Here is what that commitment actually costs, and why the community respects it.
By 2016, the Ford Mustang had transformed from a beloved but provincial American icon into a genuine global performance car, built at the factory in right-hand-drive for the first time in the nameplate’s history. Independent rear suspension and a chassis tuned for corners rather than just straight lines opened waiting lists across dozens of new countries. Read on to find out what made 2016 the Mustang’s breakout year worldwide.
This vintage promotional film captures Chevrolet’s original 1953 announcement of the Corvette, a car nobody was certain American buyers actually wanted. Commenters — including some old enough to remember passing on early Corvettes for a few hundred dollars decades later — trace a direct line from this uncertain debut to today’s mid-engine ZR1. Watch the moment a genuine gamble launched what’s become America’s longest-running sports car nameplate.
Pontiac built the first Firebird in barely six months after General Motors killed its pitch for a genuine two-seat sports car, borrowing GTO taillights and a shared Camaro platform to hit showrooms by February 1967. Four completely different engines, from a mild inline-six to a 400-cubic-inch V8 pulled from the GTO, all wore the same sheet metal, and only 697 of the ultra-rare 1969 Trans Am package were ever built. Read on to find out which engines actually made this car a legend.