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.
1968 Charger R/T Hemi, Once Owned by a Notorious Biker TV Star, Is on the Market Again
24 Nov 2024, 21:02 UTC · By: Razvan Calin / The second-generation Dodge Charger was released in the fall of 1967 as a 1968 model, and it immediately increased the nameplate’s sales six-fold compared to the last year of the first generation. It also added one more name to the R/T list o...
1970 Oldsmobile 442 W-43, the One-Off 560-HP 455 V8 Ogre That Would Have Killed the Hemi
24 Nov 2024, 17:45 UTC · By: Razvan Calin / Remember the formidable 1970 Oldsmobile 442 with its monstrously over-powering and over-torquing 455-cube V8 rated at 560 hp and 540 lb-ft? If you say anything but ‘No,’ you’re lying – the car never made it into production. ...
1963 Corvair Trapped by Trees Since 1978 Sports Huge Trunk Surprise, Bad News in the Cabin
23 Nov 2024, 21:02 UTC · By: Razvan Calin / Between 1960 and 1969, Chevrolet built one of the most interesting, intriguing, controversial, deviant, defiant, non-conformist, and unrightfully bashed automobiles ever to come out of Detroit. The Corvair was a compact that proposed a new paradigm...
1965 Corvette Is a Super-Rare Survivor, Sports One of the Greatest (and Pricey) V8s Ever
22 Nov 2024, 21:36 UTC · By: Razvan Calin / The short-lived second generation of the Chevrolet Corvette was one of the most successful in the iconic nameplate’s seven-decade history. It was also full of momentous landmarks, from the introduction of the solid roof to the debut of the bi...
Super-Rare 1969 Yenko Camaro 8-Bbl Sat 30 Years in a Trailer, Sports Big V8 Surprise
22 Nov 2024, 18:08 UTC · By: Razvan Calin / 1968 must have been a helluva year over at Chevrolet, with a lot going on in the performance section. The Z/28 Camaro was selling strong, and the Super Sport package was going sky-high, with over 36,300 units, 14,000 of them big-blocks. However, th...
1969 Camaro Z/28 RS Was Valued at $21,000 in 2002; What's the Right Price Now?
22 Nov 2024, 10:37 UTC · By: Razvan Calin / The Chevrolet Camaro took its time before joining the Mustang in the pony car segment, with the Bowtie pony debuting in the fall of 1966 as a 1967 model, some two-and-a-half years after its Ford archrival. Chevrolet made up for the delay with the r...
1971 Challenger Is a Rare R/T Project the Owner Hates To Sell; Disappointment Well Hidden
21 Nov 2024, 19:40 UTC · By: Razvan Calin / Introduced in 1967 as the performance option for Mopar-blooded buyers, the R/T (Road/Track) mark of excellence (read that as ‘burnin’ rubber ‘till the sun don’t shine’) was aborted at the end of 1971. That’s when...
Jaguar Goes the Other Way, 'Leaper' Logo Changes Its Bearing Into the Electric Age
20 Nov 2024, 21:27 UTC · By: Razvan Calin / For the past 84 years, Jaguar has been a symbol of automotive majesty, with the most powerful feline in the Americas as the iconic image of the emblematic British car brand. The company’s recent and radical change of heart about its visual id...
1970 Cadillac Eldorado Is a Low-Mile Survivor; the First Owner Had It 51 Years
20 Nov 2024, 11:01 UTC · By: Razvan Calin / 1970 was not the greatest moment in General Motors’ history – the corporation recorded massive drops in production (Chevrolet alone lost almost 600,000 units compared to 1969). In a manner that was mostly against the trend, Cadillac pus...
1967 Charger With Super-Rare V8 Is a Strong Restored Driver With Neat Mods Down Low
19 Nov 2024, 16:07 UTC · By: Razvan Calin / The Charger is carrying on into the electric age with a back-to-origins theme of sorts, one that pays homage to the nameplate’s first iteration from 58 years ago. The debut of the Dodge muscle car in 1966 was almost smothered by the downfall ...
Rare 1976 Trans Am SE 455 Makes 'The Bandit' Look Mundane, It's One of 110 Ever Made
17 Nov 2024, 23:00 UTC · By: Razvan Calin / In 1926, Pontiac appeared as a junior brand of the long-since-discontinued Oakland division of General Motors. By 1929, Pontiac was outselling its parent company so much that the corporation unceremoniously axed Oakland into the history books. We c...
1-in-10 1982 McLaren Mustang Sat in a Pine Forest for 30 Years; How Would You Save It?
16 Nov 2024, 21:16 UTC · By: Razvan Calin / Think of the rarest Ford Mustang of them all – one that was actually built for public use. It probably will surprise you to learn that it comes from the second-most popular generation of the iconic nameplate, the Fox-body pony. In 1980, Ford ...
Wife Almost Crashed New Viper RT/10, Husband Built Hemis, Yenkos, Boss Mustangs Collection
16 Nov 2024, 09:58 UTC · By: Razvan Calin / The Viper is the hemicuda of its day. Wayne Schmeeckle was casually waiting in line at the grocery store when he read the title on the cover of one of the many car magazines from a rack near the counter. ‘Hey, how cool would that be to have o...
One-Owner '85 Pontiac Trans Am Survivor Shakes Off a Decade off the Road Like It's Nothing
15 Nov 2024, 16:15 UTC · By: Razvan Calin / When it broke cover in 1964, the pony car was met with sublime indifference – for about two weeks. Then the Mustang stole the show, absolutely nullifying the Barracuda at the latter’s own game. Ford invested dump-truck-loads of money in...
Take Note, Mopar People: Gearhead Custom-Built This 1973 Barracuda 440 in His Home Garage
15 Nov 2024, 08:03 UTC · By: Razvan Calin / One man’s passion for classic cars took him through a two-year home adventure to build his dream pony, a 1973 Plymouth Barracuda with a 440-cube V8, a four-barrel, and an automatic. The best part about the build? He did it in his backyard, fr...
54-Year-Owned 1968 Plymouth GTX out of 30-Year Garage Lock-Up Needs a Lot of Everything
13 Nov 2024, 21:59 UTC · By: Razvan Calin / Plymouth sold some less than 60,000 examples of the GTX during the nameplate’s short-lived production run between 1967 and 1971. The number includes the cars from the first year when the three letters denoted a Belvedere trim, not a separate ...
Ferrari SF90 Drags SF90XX, Loser Runs in the 14s in a Non-Standard-Spec Race
13 Nov 2024, 14:00 UTC · By: Razvan Calin / Unbelievable as it seems, it’s been almost three decades since the Ferrari F50 premiered. The Prancing Horse has come a long way between that historical moment in 1995 and the F80 announcement from a few weeks ago. The two celebratory models ...
Someone Sold a 4-Spd Road Runner 440–6 for This '68 Barracuda Formula S
12 Nov 2024, 16:28 UTC · By: Razvan Calin / Chrysler was quite busy preparing for the muscle car extravaganza of 1968 when the Road Runner from Plymouth debuted, the Charger got a full overhaul over at Dodge, and the famous 340 small-block V8 made landfall. With all the attention going to th...
1966 Plymouth Satellite Hemi Is a One-of-Eleven Rarity That Used To Be a Daily Commuter
11 Nov 2024, 22:22 UTC · By: Razvan Calin / Chrysler is going through another identity crisis, this time under the Stellantis umbrella. Still, no matter what name it chooses to hide behind, loyalists will never forget the legendary peaks the corporation climbed throughout its history. Arguab...
1-in-48 Plymouth Hemi 'Cuda 1971 Is Almost All Original; There's One Big Replacement on It
11 Nov 2024, 15:03 UTC · By: Razvan Calin / The reason I’m not particularly fond of 1971 is the extinction of the hemi. I don’t think I need to underscore the ‘426 Hemi V8’ that’s implied by the short version of ‘hemispherical.’ Still, I strongly bel...