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.
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...
Amateur Musician Built the World's First Aerodynamic Car in 1924, Said No to Detroit Money
19 Apr 2024, 15:49 UTC · By: Razvan Calin / Think of the fastest cars today and see what they have in common. Thousands of horsepower? Train-pulling heaps of torque? Claustrophobically low bodies? Engines behind the driver? Wide tracks and fat tires? ‘All of the above’ would be a...
Jeep Wrangler Mud-Wrestles and Drags Defender, Grenadier, Teaches Europeans Dirty Tricks
18 Apr 2024, 20:55 UTC · By: Razvan Calin / As far as off-roading goes, we can trace its roots to the first years of World War II, when the Willys MB became the workhorse of the U.S. Military. ‘The little vehicle that could’ became synonymous with versatility, ruggedness, and all...
1988 Box Chevy Caprice Quietly Agonizes in the Slaughteryard, V8 Surprise Still Inside
18 Apr 2024, 12:54 UTC · By: Razvan Calin / In the long and arduous fight for sales supremacy in the domestic market, Chevrolet and Ford used every trick in the book to get the upper hand. The Bow Tie made the most of it, coming out on top of the Blue Oval in most of the years between the en...
Crispy 1968 Dodge Charger 383 Four-Speed Needs To Explain That R/T Badge to a New Buyer
17 Apr 2024, 21:31 UTC · By: Razvan Calin / For some unknown reason, Dodge’s reworked second-generation Charger became a cult icon of the muscle car age, and it rides a very high horse in today’s market. Perhaps it is a compensational turn of the tables after the decades in which...
The 911 Turbo S Is Old News as Rezvani's 750-HP RR1 Is a $400K Carbon Fiber Track Weapon
17 Apr 2024, 13:16 UTC · By: Razvan Calin / Porsche does a pretty good job at building cars, and usually, the end product is at least great, if not better than that. That’s why it might look suspicious to see someone putting a new twist on a brand-new 2024 Porsche model while calling i...
1970 Eldorado Is the Most Car Nut Barn Find in the World, Hasn't Moved in 40 Years
16 Apr 2024, 21:30 UTC · By: Razvan Calin / Cadillac’s top brass must have laughed their hats off when Ford introduced the 1955 Thunderbird and boisterously called it a ‘personal luxury car.’ The tiny Ford was indeed a most ‘personal’ automobile, being so intima...
Front-Engined Bugatti Roadsters Bring Back the W16 Volcano; They're Too Virtual To Be True
16 Apr 2024, 12:51 UTC · By: Razvan Calin / In its original form, Bugatti ceased to exist in the early 50s after a short and tumultuous history that left us a name, an aspiration, and a legacy now carried into the future by another automotive prodigy, Mate Rimac. When the company founded by ...
Man Restores 1953 Bel Air Convertible in the 80s, Buys It in 2005, Drives It to This Day
15 Apr 2024, 23:02 UTC · By: Razvan Calin / 1953 was a transition year for motoring America, and perhaps nothing represents it better than the Corvette. The new Chevrolet was not just an upheaval against sportscar imports from across the oceans but the signal of a revolution. The number-one-...
1000-HP Built BMW M5 Takes On 1000-HP Porsche 911, Instant Regrets Flood the Dragstrip
15 Apr 2024, 14:10 UTC · By: Razvan Calin / ‘My 800-whp Porsche 911 992 isn’t making enough power; I need something better to haul four people around,’ said absolutely no one in his right fuel-to-air ratio. The thought alone would be considered blasphemous unless that &lsqu...
This One-Owner Mustang Was the First Ever Sold in the US, Two Days Before It Was Launched
14 Apr 2024, 23:55 UTC · By: Razvan Calin / Henry Ford II revealed the Mustang to the press 60 years ago today (April 14, 1964). The outrageously positive response from the public baffled all expectations. Ford anticipated 150,000 units would be sold in the first year of the car’s exis...
1978 Corvette Survivor Gets First Wash Since 1978; Odometer Shows a Big Surprise
14 Apr 2024, 20:55 UTC · By: Razvan Calin / The Chevrolet Corvette sparked a revolution, a sort of a remake of the Boston Tea Party, calling America to fight against European sportscar tyranny in 1953. Seven decades on, the fight is more fierce than ever, and from time to time, unsung heroes...