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1973 Chevrolet Camaro

Murilee Martin — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 09:30:00 EST

Welcome to Down On The Street, where we admire old vehicles found parked on the streets of the Island That Rust Forgot: Alameda, California. How about a nice early-second-gen Camaro today?

We've had a few second-generation (1970-1981) Camaros in this series, including this '74, this nice '77, this evil '77, and this '78), but today's is our first "small-bumper" example. 1973 was the first year of the Malaise Era, so engine power was down from the year before, but the massive 5 MPH crash bumpers had yet to make their appearance.

No need to worry about Malaise here, though, because the owner tells me he's applied some performance upgrades to the (smog-check-exempt) 350 under the hood. It had 145 horses from the factory, but the usual cam/intake/carb/headers combo adds an easy 100 horsepower to that figure. And, yes, it's a daily driver!

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Nelson Supercars Chevy Camaro - The "F Bomb"

Ben Wojdyla — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 15:15:00 EDT

This is the Nelson Racing "F-bomb". It's a 1973 Chevy Camaro which belongs to David Freiburger, Cheif Editor at Hotrod Magazine. David's Camaro has been caged and tubbed, and a 406 cubic inch twin turbo V8 was installed. We were a little disappointed to find out the car only makes 1540 HP and 1527 lb.ft. of torque. That sounds pretty weak for a Chief Editors ride. We're not going to go braggin' er nothin' but a real Chief should be driving around in something tough and manly, like a Jeep Liberty.

At the very least that sucker should be packin' some serious heat like that 2,200 HP quad turbo'd big block we saw a while ago. We kid, we kid, it's likely the F bomb is named appropriately, because with 1527 lb.ft. of torque at your beck and call, that's probably the only word you're going to be able to say. [Nelson Supercars]