Lawsuit Filed Against GM By Family of Man Who Died Inside his Corvette

Lawsuit Filed Against GM By Family of Man Who Died Inside his Corvette

Photo Credit: KBMT Last weekend, my family and I stumbled onto the 1980s classic movie, Christine, about the old car that seemingly has a mind of its own and disposes of people who say bad things about it. That even included locking the doors on its own and refusing to unlock them to let her

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[ACCIDENT] Speeding Corvette Sends Five People to Hospital after Head-On Crash

[ACCIDENT] Speeding Corvette Sends Five People to Hospital after Head-On Crash

Photo Credit: Mike Rhinehart/KCRA A black Corvette wound up on its top after a head-on collision that injured five people, including one critically, on Monday morning in Granite Bay, Calif. Police are still investigating the crash, but California Highway Patrol Sgt. Tammy DuTemple said the Corvette appears to have crossed over the double yellow lines

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1966 Chevrolet Corvette Big-Block Barn Find, Stored Since 1976

Gary Zawacki could hardly believe his luck. Had he actually uncovered a real, one-owner '66 big-block Corvette with less than 13,000 miles? The classic appeared complete and original down to the Rally Red paint, parked without a car cover in a detached garage in a neighborhood in the small hamlet of Niles, Ohio.

Report: GM Planning Carbon Fiber Wheels for Performance Cars

Report: GM Planning Carbon Fiber Wheels for Performance Cars

We told you last year about one-piece carbon fiber wheels for Corvettes that were unveiled by Carbonline Wheels out of California at the 2015 SEMA show. Now comes word from autoblog.com that General Motors is thinking seriously about offering carbon fiber wheels for some of its high-end performance cars, perhaps the Chevrolet Corvette and Camaro

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Bridgestone refreshing Firehawk lines

Bridgestone Americas is replacing its Firestone Firehawk Wide Oval Indy 500 and Wide Oval AS lines with the Firestone Firehawk Indy 500 ultra-high-performance and Firehawk AS all-season high-performance lines. Bridgestone describes the new Firehawk designs as “consumer tire extensions” of the Firehawk race tires used in the Verizon IndyCar Series.

[VIDEO] 1958 Corvette Discovered in an Old Canadian Barn

[VIDEO] 1958 Corvette Discovered in an Old Canadian Barn

It didn’t look like much on the outside, with weathered wood and rusty tin, but the inside of this old shed in Canada held quite the hidden treasure. In fact, it might be one of the most interesting barn finds you’d ever want to see. A 1958 Corvette convertible had been stowed away inside, apparently

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Official Pricing for 2017 Corvettes is Now Available

Official Pricing for 2017 Corvettes is Now Available

Time to break out your calculator and the 2017 Corvette Order Guide as Chevrolet released the full schedule for pricing the 2017 Corvettes late Tuesday afternoon. We already knew the starting MSRP pricing on all eight Corvette models which was revealed at the NCM Bash and now that pricing is out on the equipment groups

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1955 Chevrolet 3100 – Splitting Six-Cylinder Exhaust Manifolds the Old Way

What is it about muffler shops and modified motoring that go so hand-in-hand? Now, I've never lived much outside of Southern California, so I've no clue how widespread the phenomenon really is. Around these parts, however, muffler shops-especially those that are independently owned and operated-have long enjoyed a tight connection with their area's car crowd.