Chevrolet Project Vehicles Articles

1977 Chevy Nova - Disco Nova Part 3

Think Magazine Cars Happen By Magic? Ha! Witness Our Elbow Grease. more

Mini Mac Malibu, Part 1 - Tech - 1965 Chevy Chevelle Malibu

A 14-Year-Old Car Crafter's Resto Effort more

1965 Chevy Chevelle Malibu - Mini Mac Malibu, Part 1

A 14-Year-Old Car Crafter's Resto Effort more

1999 Chevy Camaro - Study Haul, Part II

Lincoln Tech's 12-Second '99 LS1 Camaro more

1971 Chevy Nova - Super Nova, Part Last?

Project SuperNova Comes To A Close? more

1971 Chevy Nova - Project Super Nova Part VII

Car Craft Magazine Transforms A 1971 Chevy Nova Into Their Super Nova more

1971 Chevrolet Nova - Project SuperNova, Part III

OK, so maybe on second thought, running a stock Powerglide and converter behind a 540hp engine last time wasn’t such a good idea. Call it an experiment, but all we proved during our SuperNova project car’s maiden voyage down the quarter-mile was th more

1971 Chevrolet Nova - SuperNova, Part I

You’re probably thinking, if we had to get another Chevy, at least it’s not a Camaro. But for $1,200, it’s as close to a universal bread-and-butter musclecar as we or anyone else is likely to find these days. It’s not an extremely rare Nova more

1971 Chevrolet Nova - Project SuperNova, Part II

Swapping a small-block Chevy into a ’71 Nova shouldn’t take three weeks. But then again, it shouldn’t take 12 bucks at the coin-op car wash to clean the engine bay, or half a day to get the motor mounts to line up, or 15 trips to the auto part more

1972 Chevy El Camino - El Cheapo, Part 4

You can’t paint your own car. OK, maybe you can, but that puts you in one of two categories: guy with more time and skill than the rest of us or guy with a really ugly paint job. We long ago faced our ineptitude for bodywork, and most readers tell us th more

454 Long Block - El Cheapo, Part 3

You've seen this story before. Both Hot Rod and Chevy High Performance have taken a whack at the "big-block versus small-block" concept a couple of times, usually with informative results. Recently, both magazines ran a story wherein two engines were built, dy more

1972 Chevy EL Camino - El Cheapo, Part 1

It all started when a loser buddy was moving out of town and pretty much forced us to overpay $400 for his clapped-out 1972 El Camino. The floorpans were really rusty (three holes the size of your head), and the 350 hadn’t run in 12 years. Most of the par more

Cheap Street Chevelle

The logic behind the Cheap Street Chevelle was to build up a nice street machine for limited cash outlay. We skipped all the fancy gee-gaws and stuck to the basics by installing tried-and-true parts including an Edelbrock Performer dual-plane manifold, Cyclon more

1970 Chevrolet Chevelle - Cheap Street Chevelle, Part I

In a perfect world we would all earn loads of money, have plenty of time off, and (of course) drive awesome, tire-shredding street machines. Our world isn't perfect, though, and we usually have to compromise somewhere. more