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.
Want To Play Cops and Robbers? This Mint 1972 Dodge Polara Police Pursuit Car Is for Sale
12 Mar 2024, 21:53 UTC · By: Razvan Calin / 1972 must have been a terrible year for muscle car fans when it became absolutely clear to everyone that American motoring was on a collision course with horsepower mass extinction. Carmakers retired their most performant models. The top predators ...
1957 Plymouth Belvedere Drop-Top Flaunts '58 Vibes and Surprise V8 Mods
12 Mar 2024, 13:53 UTC · By: Razvan Calin / The 50s were oscillating years for the smallest of the Big Three from Detroit: Chrysler’s entry division, Plymouth, was on a roller sales coaster, going up and down with almost mathematical regularity year over year. The all-time high of the ...
1961 Lincoln Continental Convertible Hides a Decade-Old Adult-Rated Secret Under Back Seat
11 Mar 2024, 21:40 UTC · By: Razvan Calin / 1961 was a turning point for America: John Fitzgerald Kennedy was sworn in as the 35th President of the United States. Ford Motor Company released the famous four-door convertible that would forever be associated with the charismatic JFK, the Linco...
Audi R8 Spyder Drags Lamborghini Huracan – Don't Watch if You Have a Short Temper
7 Mar 2024, 14:51 UTC · By: Razvan Calin / Traditionally, German engineering was considered a high standard of craftsmanship, especially for everything mechanical, like, say, cars. Up to a point in history, that alleged story was backed by a certain degree of correspondence in reality. Unfo...
Solid 1971 Cadillac Fleetwood 60 Special Brougham Rots in Texas; Is It Worth a Rescue?
6 Mar 2024, 23:17 UTC · By: Razvan Calin / 1971 wasn’t a great year for General Motors: At 11:59 PM on 14 September 1970, over 400,000 workers struck the biggest corporation in the world. The titanic walkout spanned nine and a half weeks (sixty-seven days), impacting 145 GM plants in ...
Can This Russian Nut-and-Bolt Wrench Suspension Beat Air Springs? Yes, Very, Very Slowly
6 Mar 2024, 11:24 UTC · By: Razvan Calin / Adjustable ride height is probably the best thing since suspension, really, for any given number of reasons. It smoothens the ride, doesn’t mess with the internal architecture of entrails, and saves the car from becoming an earth-flattening m...
20 Years in a Barn, This 1969 Mustang Takes a Shower, 'Grande' Emblems and All
5 Mar 2024, 23:23 UTC · By: Razvan Calin / Sometimes, even legends get to live the ugly side of life’s never-ending cycles, and the 1969 Mustang could testify to that statement. With sales nose-diving to an abyssal 300,000 units (more than half under the all-time peak of 1966), the qu...
Rustbucket 1969 Dodge Charger 318 Gets a Second Chance, Hopes To Return as a Muscle Car
5 Mar 2024, 13:44 UTC · By: Razvan Calin / If we were to put together a list of the greatest muscle cars of the Golden Era, what would drop into runner-up-to-whatever positions after the second-generation Dodge Charger? Launched in 1968 with an amazingly good-looking design, the model plant...
Super Rare 1967 Rambler American Rogue 343 V8 Hides Even Rarer Surprise Inside the Cabin
4 Mar 2024, 22:45 UTC · By: Razvan Calin / American Motors Corporation is fondly remembered for its out-of-the-ordinary automobiles that somehow managed to look good, be good, be bad, stay affordable, and punch above their weight class. Sadly, AMC was fighting a losing struggle against the ...
1,100-HP BMW X3M Drags Heavily Tuned M3, M5, Proves There's Such a Thing As Too Much HP
4 Mar 2024, 13:57 UTC · By: Razvan Calin / What happens when 3,000-hp worth of BMWs gather at the ‘Ready-Set-Go!’ end of a long, straight, empty runway? That’s right – a game of tic-toc-tach-into-the-reds because what better way to celebrate spring than by blasting t...
This 122-Year-Family-Owned Mercedes Is the Most Expensive Antique Car Ever at $11M
4 Mar 2024, 12:03 UTC · By: Razvan Calin / ‘Mercedes? Never heard of them,’ said absolutely no person (living or less so) with even the most vague awareness of the existence of combustion engines. The name is, in many ways, synonymous with the automobile, and for good reason. Af...
1978 Mercedes 450 SL Gets First Wash in Two Decades: Store, Restore, or Drive As Is?
3 Mar 2024, 20:41 UTC · By: Razvan Calin / The G-Wagen is Mercedes’ longest-running nameplate, plowing through the tides of time and technology since 1979 without taking a single model year off. Surprisingly, the Silver Arrow hierarchy runner-up is a sporty two-seater that has long le...
Rescued: Hoard of B-Body Mopars Rusting Since the 80s, '68 Charger, '69 GTX 440 Included
2 Mar 2024, 21:48 UTC · By: Razvan Calin / Isn’t it curious how some cars seem to run out of luck just as they roll off the assembly lines, while others are born under a rainbow of shooting stars and become instant legends? Take the B-body Mopars, for instance. The most famous of them...
1956X Buick Century Experimental Car Was Bill Mitchell's Ride; Hides Awesome V8 Surprise
1 Mar 2024, 20:57 UTC · By: Razvan Calin / In 1956, Bill Mitchell, then chief stylist at Buick, created a unique Century Convertible as his own automobile. Featuring a myriad of special details and features, the car is a spectacular study of engineering and styling, a one-off worthy of a st...
Rolls-Royce Arcadia Droptail Is a $30+ Million One-Off That Took Five Years To Build
29 Feb 2024, 16:39 UTC · By: Razvan Calin / £30 million, or $38 million, is the rumored price of Rolls-Royce’s latest one-off, the Arcadia roadster of the Droptail family. That’s ten Bugatti Chirons put bumper-to-bumper, and it’s the only one of its kind. The car is n...
Chevy K20 Square Body Pulls 400k-Lb Trailer, Snaps a Diff, Gets WhistlinDiesel-Massacred
29 Feb 2024, 13:14 UTC · By: Razvan Calin / Chevrolet has made many iconic vehicles throughout its rich history, and the debate about which is the all-time favorite would take up about two internets and five eternities. However, the trucks would probably stand a very high chance of making it...
One-off Porsche 918 Spyder Asks Bugatti Chiron Money for a Six-Decade-Old Theme Feature
29 Feb 2024, 00:50 UTC · By: Razvan Calin / The ardent track wars between Ford and Ferrari in the mid-to-late-sixties caught the motoring world's attention and sparked a revolution. Unwillingly, Ford’s last overall triumph at the Circuit de la Sarthe from the Blue Oval's orig...
This 1969 Double COPO Camaro Is a Holy Grail With Sad News Under the Hood: It's No Yenko
28 Feb 2024, 21:36 UTC · By: Razvan Calin / The first-generation Chevy Camaro ran for three years (1967 – 1969) but left the most profound impression on the bowtie fanbase with the legendary COPO streetfighters. And the final year of the vaunted four-letter acronym brought around two o...
Burnout Level Russia: Snow-Drifting a Soviet-Age SUV on 1,200-Lb Cable Reel Wheels
28 Feb 2024, 13:01 UTC · By: Razvan Calin / Wood has been one of the staples of human civilization pretty much since we began walking upright and invented our first primitive tools. From fuel to weapons to furniture to transportation, the wonderful, natural, organic, vegan, renewable, Earth-...
Why Should We Care About This 1971 Challenger and Its 413 V8 Since It's Not for Sale?
27 Feb 2024, 22:37 UTC · By: Razvan Calin / More than half a century ago, Dodge was going flat-out toward an ugly revolution that shook the company to its core. In 1970, the Challenger joined the Charger in the muscle line-up, under the ‘pony car’ section, and things looked promi...