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Grumpy's Camaro Going To Auction

Own A Piece Of Grumpy Jenkins Auction History

Posted January 6 2011 07:56 AM by Jim Campisano

In the Chevy drag racing world, no name is bigger than that of Bill "Grumpy" Jenkins. The Malvern Missile, who was out signing autographs at our Super Chevy Show at Maple Grove Raceway in Pennsylvania last summer, ran a...

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Nasty Nova

TCI Front Clip Install Coming Soon

Posted June 23 2010 06:28 AM by Jim Campisano

Not too long ago we came into possession of a ’72 Nova SS. It had been set up for a big-block, but was engineless. It wasn't perfect, but it was acquired for a price that anyone working at McDonald's could afford. Plus, it...

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A Nova Like One Other

Norm Meads' L78 Nova SS Takes Him Back

Posted June 15 2010 08:24 AM by Jim Campisano

When Norm Meads was 17, he ordered a black-on-black L78 Nova at Park Circle Chevrolet in Baltimore. With a few mods, the 375-horse, automatic-equipped ’70 was soon running low 12s at 111 mph. Not a bad hot rod for a...

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Sitting In A Piece Of History

Mr. Editor Meets Mr. Super Sport

Posted May 14 2010 08:54 AM by Jim Campisano

By any measure, our Super Chevy Show in Virginia was a wild success. On a personal note, one of the highlights of the weekend was getting to meet Tommy Nolen and his wife, and getting an up-close and personal look at his...

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Where Have All The V-8 Vegas Gone?

We've Got One Coming Soon

Posted May 7 2010 05:48 AM by Jim Campisano

As we continually seek to fine-tune Super Chevy Magazine, it occurred to me that we've not featured a really trick V-8 Vega in quite some time. Not for a lack of trying, mind you, but for a variety of reasons we've not...

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Junior Johnson's ’59 At The 500

This was an unexpected surprise

Posted February 17 2010 03:22 PM by Jim Campisano

I took in my first Daytona 500 in 2010 and (like many of you) I feel it was a mixed bag. The racing, enhanced by larger openings in the restrictor plates, was more exciting than in years past and there was a near-record...

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New 409 Block Nears Production

World Products & Walden Automotive Are Close

Posted February 2 2010 08:57 AM by Jim Campisano

Over the last 18 months, we've brought you updates of the new aluminum 409 block being engineered by World Products and Lamar Walden Automotive. Here's the latest on it. World Products, the noted provider of crankcases,...

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27 Reasons I'm Glad I Live In Tampa

My new Nova is buried under snow

Posted December 24 2009 10:20 AM by Jim Campisano

Here it is, my beloved new ’72 Nova SS, buried under 27 inches of snow in southern New Jersey. Yes, we said 27.

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One Big Ol' Blower

ProCharger's latest is a real monster

Posted December 14 2009 07:44 AM by Jim Campisano

When we heard ProCharger was introducing a new race supercharger at the Performance Racing Industry trade show in Orlando last month, we never imagined how large it would be. For a little perspective, that's a big-block...

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The Man Behind The Motion Book

Super Chevy Editor gets autograph

Posted December 9 2009 05:12 AM by Jim Campisano

Well-known Florida transplants Jim Campisano, editor of Super Chevy magazine, and Marty Schorr, author of Motion Performance, Tales Of A Muscle Car Builder , got together at Big Al's Restaurant in Sarasota for some...

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Super Chevy Book Review

Motion Performance, Tales of a Muscle Car Builder

Posted October 20 2009 06:41 AM by Jim Campisano

Just finished reading Martyn L. Schorr's remarkable epic, Motion Performance, Tales Of A Muscle Car Builder. Schorr, the former editor of High Performance Cars and Cars magazines back in the swingin' '60s and less swingin'...

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Great '58s

How about a half-dozen of them?

Posted October 2 2009 06:28 AM by Jim Campisano

Once upon a time, the '58 Chevy got about as much respect as Rodney Dangerfield. Oh, after the film American Graffiti, interest picked up, but it died down again soon thereafter. We have seen a resurgence over the last...

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Definitive Motion Book Released

This one's written by a man who lived it

Posted September 30 2009 06:50 AM by Jim Campisano

Martyn L. Schorr, the former editor of Cars magazine and High Performance Cars in the 1960s and '70s and who produced the ads and catalogs for Motion Performance, New York's premier musclecar builder and tuner in the...

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L-88 Brings Big Bucks

Bloomington Gold Auction Top 10 Sales

Posted July 6 2009 06:37 AM by Jim Campisano

Mecum held an auction in conjunction with the Bloomington Gold Corvette show on June 26-27 and the results were strong despite the slow economy. A full 43 percent of the cars across the block sold and the top dollar...

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Classic Chevy Magazine Coming In June

Is there room for '58s?

Posted February 19 2009 05:43 PM by Jim Campisano

Work is starting soon on the 2009 edition of Chevy Classics, our annual tribute to Tri-Five Chevys. Recently, someone put forth the question: Should we expand coverage in this magazine for '58 Chevys?

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