What Would You Do with a ‘12 Centennial Edition Corvette

 What would you do with a factory-showroom-new ‘12 Centennial Edition Corvette?
 Do you take it on your first cross-country drive in years, store it in a barn so that it’s somebody else’s great discovery a century from now, take it from the showroom to the best-prepped drag [...]

Chevrolet Small Block Fast Facts
 We asked our friends at General Motors to come up with some fast facts about the small-block Chevrolet, to help them celebrate the 100 millionth one produced.
Some of them you may know, but do you know all of them?
     •    One-hundred million engines since 1955 is the equivalent of more than [...]

VETTE’s unofficial 100 millionth small-block Chevy contest, Part 3

  Time to put on your thinking caps, VETTE readers!
For each engine, we’ll give you a hint. You tell us the small-block Chevy engine and the year it was first produced.
 Let’s get started.3. When this engine was introduced it was first time since 1965 that Corvette fans [...]

VETTE’s unofficial 100 millionth small-block Chevy contest, Part 2

  How good at you at guessing the Chevy small block and the year it was produced?
 Time to put on your thinking caps, VETTE readers!
For each engine, we’ll give you a hint. You tell us the small-block Chevy engine and the year it was first produced.
 Let’s get [...]

Name The Chevy Small Block and Year

 How good at you at guessing the Chevy small block and the year it was produced?
 Time to put on your thinking caps, VETTE readers!
For each engine, we’ll give you a hint. You tell us the small-block Chevy engine and the year it was first produced.
Let’s get started.
1. When this [...]

Early Corvette Artifacts Donated to National Corvette Museum
 
According to our friends at the National Corvette Museum, Mrs. Aileene Jarema came to the museum on November 22, 2011, to donate pictures, memos, newspaper articles, drawings and other items going back to Corvette’s beginnings in Flint Michigan.  
 Her late husband, Carl Jarema, was the Product Engineer for the [...]

National Corvette Museum Asks for Corvette Stories
  The National Corvette Museum is seeking heart-warming, interesting, bizarre, funny or inspiring stories about Corvette owners and their Corvettes for the Jan/Feb 2012 issue of America’s Sports Car.
An example would be the story of display car owner Chance Mayfield who had his ‘Vette stolen in 1970, only to [...]

100 Millionth Small Block Chevy is Being Built Today.

General Motors today will build its 100-millionth small-block engine – 56 years after the first production small block – representing an engineering legacy that continues to deliver greater performance and efficiency through advanced technology.
 
Chevrolet introduced the small-block in 1955 and the production milestone comes in the same [...]

Filed under: Aftermarket, Motorsports, Classics, Coupe, Performance, Etc., Videos, Crossover, Hatchback, Nissan, Racing

Forty years, countless miles, a corporate name change and untold heaps of abuse separate Dave Coleman’s 1971 Eyesore Racing Datsun 510 from the 2011 Nissan Juke. But that didn’t stop the guys from Inside Line from pitting the two distant cousins against each [...]

Filed under: Aftermarket, Etc.

Radar Tires has initiated a new charity campaign to fight breast cancer. The Mobilizing Hope campaign is aimed at stirring awareness through various channels, including the Ring of Hope project, which features a limited-edition pink sidewall tire. Based on the Radar Tires RPX900 all-season performance tire, the rubber will initially be available [...]