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.
1956 Hudson Hornet Hollywood V8 With Historic Legacy V8 Engine Was Cheaper Than You Think
29 Mar 2024, 22:00 UTC · By: Razvan Calin / In 1954, two companies sealed the deal on the largest corporate merger the United States had ever seen, with the arrangement worth close to $200 million dollars. If economics isn’t a particular field of interest, please note that the parties ...
Exactly How Super Stock Is an 8-Second Hellcat Mopping the Dragstrip With a GT500?
29 Mar 2024, 08:43 UTC · By: Razvan Calin / One mean Challenger Hellcat Super Stock goes against the ultimate archrival, a Mustang GT500, and demolishes it. 8.93 v 11.15 is a lot, but it looks even worse than the numbers can describe it. Courtesy of the Wheels drag racing vloggers and YouTub...
Tesla Model 3 LR Drags Volvo EX30, Quickly Finds Out Why Swedish Engineering Is Better
28 Mar 2024, 21:24 UTC · By: Razvan Calin / Tesla’s supremacy at the dragstrip is based almost entirely on the Model S Plaid’s insane specs and figures. The other top brawlers from Elon Musk’s car company aren’t afraid to throw a heavy punch from time to time. Still, ...
Rare 1971 Plymouth GTX U-Code Four-Speed Begs for a New Owner, Offers Nice Rear-End Treat
28 Mar 2024, 13:17 UTC · By: Razvan Calin / In 1967, Plymouth put a new twist on the Belvedere (itself a twist on the Satellite) and named it GTX. 1968, the trim was promoted to model ranks and endured until 1971. Following the muscle car movement's vilification, the GTX was relegated t...
19-Year-Old Saved Money for Three Years To Buy a New 1969 Mercury Cyclone GT He Still Owns
27 Mar 2024, 21:58 UTC · By: Razvan Calin / ‘The last time I drove this car on the street was in June 1976. Life happens.’ Chuck Knudsen sums up his experience as the sole caretaker of a 1969 Mercury Cyclone GT 390 he bought new on November 8, 1968. Sometimes, life takes a turn, ...
1970 General Lee Rots Away in a Mysterious Forest Packed With Classics, You Can't Save Any
27 Mar 2024, 13:22 UTC · By: Razvan Calin / A mysterious place is hidden in a forest packed with classic gems, and no one can touch it. The YouTubers from Real Steel Fabrications found it. They shot a short video of it under the strict embargo of not disclosing its whereabouts, name, or any ...
Tired of Mainstream Tires? Recycled DIY Airless Tires Are One Russian Way Forward
27 Mar 2024, 10:46 UTC · By: Razvan Calin / What is the best use of a used tire? Make tires out of it, of course. Remember the crumb rubber PPC experiment by the Garage 54 team from Novosibirsk, Siberia, Russia, a few weeks ago? They took the exploration of possibilities one step further (or...
Small Cars Will Be Artificially Intelligent (in China) Under a New XPeng Brand Coming Soon
26 Mar 2024, 16:26 UTC · By: Razvan Calin / Smart vehicles are clever enough for China’s ever-growing and fast-paced market (according to domestic carmakers), and the time has arrived to upgrade cars. XPeng, one of the Asian nation’s largest automotive players, announced a new br...
1967 RS/SS Camaro Survivor Is Day-Two Perfection; the 350 V8 Punches Harder Than an SS396
26 Mar 2024, 10:57 UTC · By: Razvan Calin / Introduced in the fall of ’66 for the 1967 model year, the Chevrolet Camaro never quite managed to upset its archrival, the Ford Mustang, in sales numbers. But that doesn’t mean the pony Chevy was a dull machine. Quite the contrary &nda...
Saved 1966 Baja Beetle Gets Fixed Tree-Shade-Style, Runs, Drives Like Nothing Happened
25 Mar 2024, 13:27 UTC · By: Razvan Calin / Let’s test our memory and see why 1966 was a good year for motoring: the Dodge Charger, for once. The Street HEMI, for once more. The GTO (yes, it appeared in 1963 for the 1964 Tempests Le Mans, but two years later, it became a standalone mod...
Savage BMW Wagon Picks a Fight With 1,000-HP Porsche 911, Audi R8TT, Doesn't Back Down
24 Mar 2024, 19:16 UTC · By: Razvan Calin / Here’s how paper math can be deceiving: a German formation of three 1000-hp fighters brutally launched a full-scale invasion over an airfield in the UK with no good intentions. No, it’s not 1940, and the events can be best summed up in ...
Koenigsegg Jesko Attack Does 360 Speed-Turn On Snow Like It Was Born for It
24 Mar 2024, 19:16 UTC · By: Razvan Calin / There’s a reason Koenigsegg made the Jesko Attack, but it’s up to every owner of the megacar to find out what that reason is. The Swedish company is never far away from the fun side of building mind-blowing cars, and their most track-or...
Restored, Hellcat-Swapped General Lee Toy Model Will Make You Feel Like a 4YO Again
23 Mar 2024, 21:59 UTC · By: Razvan Calin / Between the 1968 R/T 440 and the 1969 R/T 440, which Dodge Charger is the superstar of the Fratzog emblem fraternity? That’s a hard choice for any Mopar enthusiast, as both cars have their place in the pantheon of all-time great muscle cars....
Lamborghini With $100K Inside Survives 10k Bullets, a 100-Foot Drop, and a Train Collision
22 Mar 2024, 20:43 UTC · By: Razvan Calin / The internet’s most followed socialite has done it again – putting a Lamborghini through the tortures of content creation, only to have a lucky subscriber trying to win a supercar (and the pile of cash in the passenger seat). A Lamborgh...
The Eight-Stroke Engine Is ICE Age's Real MVP, How Come No One Thought of It Until Now?
22 Mar 2024, 15:32 UTC · By: Razvan Calin / The realm of pistons and internal combustion has been on an evolutionary arms race since the very first power stroke of the Big Bang that started the reciprocating piston revolution. Stronger, faster, better, cheaper, smoother, higher, quicker &nda...
One-of-None Off-Road Dodge Viper RT-10 Goes for First Drive, Cops Immediately Pull It Over
22 Mar 2024, 12:35 UTC · By: Razvan Calin / Porsche made the Dakar version of the 911, Lamborghini countered with the Huracan Sterrato, and that’s pretty much where the mainstream list of off-road supercars ends. Notable names would make a respectable annex, but as far as regular, eve...
1972 Gran Torino Sport Boasts Super Rare Treats in Plain Sight, Hidden Gem on the Dash
21 Mar 2024, 22:11 UTC · By: Razvan Calin / By 1972, it was pretty clear that something humongous was reshaping the performance car universe that revolved around Detroit’s finest and brightest eight-cylinder supernovas. The muscle car age was fading to submission to the EPA, the insure...
1963 Corvette Sting Ray Fuelie Boasts Super-Expensive Feature Attached to the Original V8
19 Mar 2024, 06:28 UTC · By: Razvan Calin / 1963 saw big changes for America’s sportscar: a new generation debuted – the C2 Sting Ray (two words) – and demand was over the top. It was so high, in fact, that Chevrolet scored a record production run of 21,513 units for the mo...
The Last 'True' Shelby GT350 Ever Built: This 1966 Fastback Hasn't Run in 40 Years
17 Mar 2024, 22:53 UTC · By: Razvan Calin / The GT350 was the racehorse sired by a mule that Shelby American delivered in 1965 at the express request of Lee Iacocca. The sports car for secretaries had little to no chance of ever becoming a performance nameplate – at least, not in the e...
1971 Corvette LS6 454/425 Is Mostly Original; There's a Story About Its Big-Block
16 Mar 2024, 21:43 UTC · By: Razvan Calin / 1971 was not one for the graduation albums of anyone in Detroit. Big and small automakers were served the low-compression-only course from the federal government. Basically, lead and gasoline could no longer live together in the same combustion cha...