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.
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...
Transparent Four-Seat Lamborghini Cristallo Is a Hologram EV Missile From the Other-Verse
27 Feb 2024, 16:15 UTC · By: Razvan Calin / Lamborghini is historically associated with fast, mad-styled two-door rockets with room for one (and maybe, sometimes, on rare occasions, two) occupants. But the Raging Bull didn’t take a vow of four-door or four-seater eternal hatred, and th...
21-YO Is Gifted Her Dad's 1968 Mustang That Sat for 18 Years, Her Reaction Is Unexpected
27 Feb 2024, 07:07 UTC · By: Razvan Calin / By 1968, America was no longer hypnotized by the Mustang mania from ’64-’66, and the car was sliding downhill in sales. The heat from the Camaro and Firebird and the arrival of the AMC Javelin forced the Blue Oval pony to share the mark...
First Hennessey Venom F5 To Hit the Auction Block Has 229 Miles, One Owner, and No Reserve
25 Feb 2024, 23:59 UTC · By: Razvan Calin / Here’s a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to own a piece of American motoring history in the making: the second Hennessey Venom F5 ever built is going up for sale next weekend at no reserve at the Amelia Island auction. Probably the least numer...
450-Lb Trunk Flywheel Is One Russian's Way To Save Fuel Since Physics Is Still Free There
25 Feb 2024, 21:50 UTC · By: Razvan Calin / Remember the days when toy cars were simple and fun? Basic contraptions with four wheels, a tiny body on a plate, and endless fantasy plays in which we were everything from race drivers to cops to mechanics. The last role fell upon those with the m...
One-Off 1970 Convertible Hemi Cuda Is Available Again After Selling for $2M in January
24 Feb 2024, 22:00 UTC · By: Razvan Calin / How many HEMI Cuda convertibles have you seen? I mean, all of them that were put together since you first learned how to count. 10? 20? 30? Alright, stop. Anything above 21 is a lie because that’s how many were ever made - fourteen in 1970 an...
Porsche 918 v Ferrari SF90: Here's How $1.2 Million Isn't Enough To Win a Drag Race
24 Feb 2024, 16:12 UTC · By: Razvan Calin / When Gordon Murray engineered the McLaren F1, the motoring world suddenly realized a new era had begun. The hypercars fell on Planet Speed, taking no prisoners and heating the horsepower wars to unfathomable levels for street cars. What followed is...
This HEMI Mopar Unicorn 1967 GTX Is a 1-in-10 Convertible, What Would You Pay To Own It?
23 Feb 2024, 22:00 UTC · By: Razvan Calin / 1967 was a wake-up year for Plymouth, as the division proudly displayed a muscle offering in its menu with a name of its own, not a borrowed moniker with no mean sound. The Belvedere and the Satellite (itself a high-brow Belvedere) were the first i...
Million-Dollar Cadillac: This 16-Cylinder Roadster From 1930 Stayed 81 Years in One Family
23 Feb 2024, 21:14 UTC · By: Razvan Calin / Bugatti made tidal waves in 2000 when it presented the sixteen-cylinder Veyron, the marvelous luxo-missile that topped 250 mph (400 kph). As forerunner as it was, Bugatti arrived a bit late at the multi-piston party – like seven decades late....
Land Rover Defender 130 Turns Into a Fashion Icon With $20K Urban Automotive Makeup
22 Feb 2024, 21:58 UTC · By: Razvan Calin / ‘My brand-new luxury SUV Land Rover Defender 130 doesn’t have enough road presence,’ said a great many people, apparently, and Urban Automotive obliged. The UK-based car beautification studio released a styling program for the fam...
Hummer H2 vs. UAZ 469 Is Off-Road Cold War, Badass Soviet Kicks American Rear
22 Feb 2024, 16:31 UTC · By: Razvan Calin / What could possibly be better than a summer day’s fun in an off-road vehicle? Two off-road vehicles - reenacting a piston-sized playground Cold War clash between the USA and the USSR. A UAZ from the glorious times of the mighty Soviet automob...
Super-Rare 1967 GTX Convertible Is a 1-in-10 HEMI, Don't Be Fooled by What Sits on It
21 Feb 2024, 15:48 UTC · By: Razvan Calin / By 1965, Detroit was all but hurling the Big Three gentlemen’s agreement to stay out of motorsports into the blazing flames of internal combustion hellfire. Mainly, Ford and Chrysler had something to settle: a squandered dispute from the NASC...
The Duesenberg Straight 8 Hemi: The First All-American Win at Le Mans, in 1921
20 Feb 2024, 22:34 UTC · By: Razvan Calin / The early twenties were some pretty hectic times for the world, and we still have some resonances of those troubled times that echo to this day. Remember, humanity was striving to get back up on its feet after a pandemic that eradicated tens of mil...