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 Corvette LT-1 Survivor Has No Skeletons in the Closet and Will Get a New Owner Soon
13 Apr 2024, 20:35 UTC · By: Razvan Calin / At the peak of the muscle car bonanza in 1970, Chevrolet advertised a ‘Shut up and take my money!’ V8, the LS7 454-cubic-inch (7.4-liter) that promised 460 hp. It should have been the absolute terror of Detroit, but it never happened. H...
Car Nut Supreme: Man Waits 57 Years for His Dream Car, a 1966 Mercury Cyclone GT Survivor
13 Apr 2024, 10:03 UTC · By: Razvan Calin / In 1976, Randy Honkala turned 18 and bought his first car. Who’s Randy Honkala? I’ll tell you in a minute, but in 1976, he was the proud owner of a six-year-old automobile built by Ford Motor Company. What car? A Ford Mustang—a Gr...
Drag Race: BMW iX2 Proves How an EV Can Be Slower Than Less Powerful ICE Crossovers
12 Apr 2024, 14:30 UTC · By: Razvan Calin / Somehow, carmakers led us to believe that crossover SUVs are the automobiles we absolutely need if we are to survive these manic times of personal transportation. Clearly, we’ve been played because the oversized hatchbacks are about as meanin...
1964 Pontiac Le Mans Convertible Survivor Is No GTO but Still Wants a New Owner
11 Apr 2024, 11:35 UTC · By: Razvan Calin / What’s 1964 best remembered for in Detroit? Incidentally, all three from the Big Triad were up to something for that model year. ChryCo put out the second generation of the hemispherical-heads V8, the race HEMI. Unrelated to that, it made cla...
Ferrari H2 Berlinetta Is the 812 Superfast Successor That Burns Hydrogen and Lives in CGI
10 Apr 2024, 13:14 UTC · By: Razvan Calin / Old man Ferrari was sneering at anyone who had ideas of their own that didn’t pledge unconditional allegiance to the creed of the Prancing Horse. Aerodynamics was among those superstitions that Enzo mocked at first until he realized his engin...
1,100+ HP Black Ghost Challenger Drags Hellcat Charger; There's No Rest for the Wicked
10 Apr 2024, 11:17 UTC · By: Razvan Calin / There will be a time when drag-racing piston-powered cars will be a pastime for the insanely rich people who can afford to own, maintain, tune, and race such wonders of the fossil era. Just like horses faded out into history, the octane-fused muscl...
Carbon and Horsepower: The 888-HP Cabrio Mansory 911 Turbo S Is Out to Prey on Hypercars
9 Apr 2024, 15:34 UTC · By: Razvan Calin / How do you improve super-sportscar perfection? Let Porsche make it, then give it to Mansory to fiddle with it for a while. If all the stars align properly, we should get a P9LM EVO 900 Cabrio impression of the 911 Turbo S. After releasing the coupe...
Barrett-Jackson CEO Owns, Drives a 1970 HEMI Cuda Convertible Full of Surprises
9 Apr 2024, 12:47 UTC · By: Razvan Calin / The late sixties and early seventies weren’t just fun and games for the American auto industry – although it might look like from afar, and especially from a half-a-century-away distance. Despite being one of the most fruitful periods i...
The First Owner of This '69 AMC Ambassador Shot Seven Presidents, Don't Assume a Thing
8 Apr 2024, 22:20 UTC · By: Razvan Calin / 1969 was one helluva year to be alive and able to buy a new car in the United States of Automobile: the Bosses (Little and Nine), the COPO Camaro, the last Shelby Mustangs, the Corvette L88, and the AMC Rebel The Machine were inhabiting peacefully ...
Blew Two 427/425s in Its First Two Years – This Canadian 1969 Camaro COPO Wants New Owners
8 Apr 2024, 13:09 UTC · By: Razvan Calin / In the late 1960s, a handful of Chevrolet dealers with friends inside the GM ivory tower worked their way around the bureaucratic moats and invented the ‘performance COPO’ cheat code. The Camaro has a special place among the Central Off...
Twice Surprise: Barn-Forgotten '60s Mustangs Are a Car Nut's Gift to His Grandkids
6 Apr 2024, 20:57 UTC · By: Razvan Calin / Coming to the stage as a little more than a more youth-oriented spin-off from the compact Ford Falcon, the Mustang quickly rose to stardom. It became one of the most – if not the most – emblematic automobiles Made in America. The 1964-1...
1960 Chevy Biscayne Would Have Hellcats Running Up Trees With Its 496 V8 and NOS Manners
5 Apr 2024, 21:23 UTC · By: Razvan Calin / Chevrolet sparked a revolution in 1958 when it introduced a nameplate that would devour competition with absolutist reign in the sixties. The Impala became America’s motoring sweetheart, putting to shame every other make and model from Detroi...
Original 1962 Ford Falcon Sat in a Coma Since 1988, Makes Failed Attempt To Live Again
5 Apr 2024, 14:33 UTC · By: Razvan Calin / In 1960, Ford released the Falcon to spread its compact wings over the exuberant, youthful decade ahead. The car did very well in the first three years, opening a niche and setting sales records before the 1964 asteroid impact blew Planet Piston in...
Diesel v Gasoline v Hybrid: Which Is the Quickest Tuned BMW Over the Quarter-Mile?
4 Apr 2024, 15:15 UTC · By: Razvan Calin / BMW’s wrenching nerds did a great job when they imbued their automobiles with the most powerful letter in the alphabet some four decades ago. Then something happened (doesn’t it always with Germans?), and we ended up with cars like the ...
Name a Better Looking Classic Than This Daily Driver 1967 Thunderbird 429, I'll Wait
4 Apr 2024, 11:45 UTC · By: Razvan Calin / The Mustang is the quintessential Ford automobile, although the Blue Oval is in no shortage of monumental achievements in the realm of piston power. Henry’s Ts and As are titans of the motorcar age, and the F-series trucks need no further int...
A Rough 1971 Ford Torino GT Survivor Is Up for Grabs; the Seller Wants To Buy New Shoes
3 Apr 2024, 21:14 UTC · By: Razvan Calin / People generally think of the iconic Mustang when ‘Ford’ and ‘muscle car’ get together in the same sentence. Yes, the pony was just as much overshadowing its siblings as it was outselling its rivals, and in certain circumsta...
White House Orders NASA To Devise a Moon Time Standard for Future Space Missions
3 Apr 2024, 09:35 UTC · By: Razvan Calin / The race for space isn’t as simple as ‘get there ahead of the other guy’ anymore, and technological advancements have made life so much more complicated for all cosmos-ambitious nations. We saw it coming; it was a matter of time &...
Rare 1967 Dodge Monaco 500 Ragtop Is a Freebie Barn Find, Seized V8 Hasn't Run in 40 Years
2 Apr 2024, 21:00 UTC · By: Razvan Calin / For some mysterious reason that shall forever stay buried in the abyss of the past, Dodge made a strange strategic decision in 1967. The Chrysler Division allowed the convertible version of the Monaco 500 to be built – and sold – only i...
The 1955 Indy 500 Crash Killed a Legend, and the First-Ever Wind-Tunnel-Designed Race Car
2 Apr 2024, 13:01 UTC · By: Razvan Calin / In 1955, a fatal track collision ended the life of one of the greatest racers of the era, Bill Vukovich, and his team’s ambitions to introduce active aerodynamics to American motorsports. The Quinn Epperly Fuel Injected Special was a sleek ma...
1992 Camaro RS Gets First Wash in 20 Years, Sad News Everywhere, From Engine to Trunk
1 Apr 2024, 15:09 UTC · By: Razvan Calin / The Camaro is leaving the scene (for now) yet again. Still, there was a time when this iconic pony was standing tall and proud, braving the fashion and flim-flam of the epochs. The early 90s were a time of change for the entire world, and the autom...