Sidedrafts for your small block

Chevrolet small-blocks and Weber carburetion tend to go together like Mom and applejack. The combination seems like it’ll be fun at the outset, but then things get complicated and out of control. After sleeping it off, you try to put it all out of your mind, bolt on a Holley and go about your business. […]

Hemmings Find of the Day – Mid-Engine Corvair

Rumors of mid-engine Corvettes pop up and dissipate like mushrooms most every model year, but this award-winning 1965 mid-engine V-8 Chevrolet Corvair is as real right now as it was when it was built in 1967. In the middle of the Tangerine Dream is a 327 small-block Chevrolet, backed by a four-speed transaxle. The owner […]

Zora on hot rodders

As CorvetteBlogger.com reminded us this morning, it was 57 years ago today that Zora Arkus-Duntov wrote his famous letter to Ed Cole entitled “Thoughts Pertaining to Youth, Hot Rodders, and Chevrolet” and on display at the National Corvette Museum in Bowling Green, Kentucky. Judging from the ubiquity of the small-block Chevrolet over the next half-century […]