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Imagine for a moment you have a car that almost caught fire because of a wiring issue. You stick it in the garage and, before you know it, it’s been 25 years and the car hasn’t moved—not an uncommon occurrence, right? Sometimes life gets in the way of a project.

But sometimes cancer gets in the way of life too. A Nebraska resident, former Marine staff sergeant, and Vietnam veteran, Mike Kimmons had the misfortune to be given several months to live due to liver cancer. When discussing with friends what he’d like to do before the disease takes over his life, one of the things Mike said was to take his wife for a cruise in his 1964 Corvette. One of those friends, Dave Rusk, texted another friend, George Hoellen, and asked for help. George not only responded in the affirmative, but he got the wheels (pun not intended) in motion thanks to being president and part-owner of a tire company. The folks working for him at T.O. Haas Tire rose to the occasion, secretly attending to the Corvette’s needs including a new gas tank, new brake system, a new exhaust system, radiator, and turn signal switch.

Please note: This article is intended as a general point of reference only. Actual parts, years and body styles may differ slightly from your application.

Chevy Classics has developed a simple way to stop the inherent "burp" from the cast iron Powerglides. One of the causes of transmission fluid backing up and running out is the failure of a one-way valve in the pump assembly. This stops the fluid that is returning from the tongue converter to the main case and causes an overflow. In the past, the only way to cure this was to pull the transmission down and repair the valve. This, of course, is very costly and time-consuming. Now, with this kit (part #19-28), you can repair this problem in less than one hour of shop time!

The National Corvette Museum broke ground on the Motorsports Park currently being built adjacent to the museum and GM’s Bowling Green Assembly plant in Bowling Green, Kentucky last July and has been making steady progress on the track ever since. Most recently, construction crews began paving the first part of the track, laying asphalt down on the paddock area.

he area being paved will be used as a skidpad as well as for autocross events, according to an announcement put out on the park’s Facebook page. The next order of business will be installing guard rails on the inside of the track and performing lime stabilization for the base of the racing surface and runoff areas. With the brunt of the winter’s bad weather behind them, the park says construction is beginning to move more quickly.

Before 1970, General Motors had an edict that restricted cubic inches depending on the bodystyle. Chevrolet’s compact (Chevy II/Nova), mid-size (Chevelle), and pony car (Camaro) could not have anything larger than a 396, while full-size cars and the Corvette could get the 427. Meanwhile, across town at Chrysler and Ford, they were running amuck with 7-Liter monsters like the 426 Hemi and Boss 429.

Knowing that credibility was built on the street as much as on the racetrack (which, by the way, was never sanctioned by General Motors due to a racing ban that began in 1963), the folks at Chevrolet created a way to build a few Chevelles and Camaros with 427s. Instead of offering them as Regular Production Orders (RPO), they were built through the Central Office Production Order (COPO) channel. This channel was normally used for fleet orders like for the phone company, so they were equipped to handle things that were not quite regular production. A little over 300 COPO Chevelles and an estimated 1,000 COPO Camaros were built with the L72 427, which was rated at 425 horsepower.

JOLIET, Ill., March 31, 2014 /PRNewswire-iReach/ -- As Chicagoland performance-car enthusiasts await the arrival of the track-ready 2015 Chevy Camaro Z/28 at Bill Jacobs Joliet in the coming months, they'll be able to catch a glimpse of the muscle car in action as paces the 2014 Indy 500 on May 25.

While the 2015 Chevy Camaro Z/28 won't be fully unleashed on the track, the man behind the wheel has proven to be more than capable of getting every ounce of performance from a car. Chevy selected three-time Indy 500 winner Dario Franchitti to drive the track-ready Camaro. Although Franchitti had his racing career cut short after suffering serious injuries from a crash last October, the automotive world is thrilled to see Franchitti back behind the wheel at the Indy 500.

The process of removing the eight Corvettes which were swallowed up by a sinkhole that opened up in the National Corvette Museum in February has been neither easy nor short. The construction crews working on the sinkhole managed to rescue five of the eight Corvettes from the earth’s 30-foot deep embrace before they had to put a temporary halt on the effort in order to stabilize the hole. Today, the rescue attempts started back up with the one-off 1991 Corvette ZR-1 Spyder being hoisted out of the pit and back to safety.

A 1956 Chevy 210 Post was on display at the Cobo Center in Detroit on Friday morning. Owner Dan Duffy of Marietta, Georgia was attending to last minute detailing but was ready to talk with anyone who stopped by to comment on his car. He explained that he has built this car to drive. So it is no show queen.  Yet it would be hard to find a flaw in the car. It is just that nice. Ted Thomas of T&T Customs in Canton, Georgia was with Dan. Ted has been in the Great 8 seven times and the car he built won the Ridler Award in 2010, a 1933 Ford Phaeton called the Gold Digger. He said his job is to keep Dan calm. He said the pressure on these builders who are competing to get into the Great 8 is intense.

The 2014 Camaro Z/28 is a lot more than a big engine in a Camaro—it’s a repurposed performance machine with numerous tweaks to call its own. This “Camaro Z06″ (if you will) has a number of aerodynamic mods that help make the it such a stellar vehicle on the track, so Car and Driver interviewed Program Engineering Manager Mark Stielow to discuss how the Z/28′s aerodynamics improve the breed and how it compares with another Camaro with track aspirations, the 1LE.

When installing a new water pump, or after flushing out your system, never reuse old coolant. Over time it can chemically break down and actually harm and attack the internals of your cooling system.

Also: Old gasket removal is highly critical to obtaining a good, leak-free seal. Using a putty knife, lightly scrape the water pump mounting surface until the bare metal of the block is clean.

Chevrolet engineers rocketed the performance of the Zeta-based fifth-generation Camaro to new heights with the hard-core 2014 Camaro Z/28. They bench-marked the car against top tier supercars which cost thousands of dollars more, like the Nissan GT-R and Porsche 911. So far, the Z/28 has proved to be more than a worthy competitor on the racetrack, posting an extremely fast time on Germany’s infamous Nurburgring, but how does it work as a road car and is it faster around Barber Motorsports Park than a GT-R? We find out on this week’s episode of Motor Trend’s Head 2 Head.