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Print is not dead...
In May 2020 the unthinkable happened at RPM. Due to the effects of the pandemic on our business partners, advertisers and printer network, after 21 years of smoke and gears, RPM stopped printing physical copies . To make a very long story short, as a family owned company staffed by gearheads and driven by a love of fast cars and the need to have a magazine for the “rest of us”, we were devastated. But we pressed on and poured resources into the RPM digital mag (which is exactly like the printed publication, plus digital-only bonuses and NOT a blog style web page) along with revamping the entire RPM website and social media platforms.
Along with a number of seemingly impossible challenges to overcome, when all this went down, we also felt bad for feature vehicle owners, knowing they could not get their hands on a regular print copy of RPM with their car in it.
So once again, taking the bull by the horns in RPM’s 25th Anniversary year, we’ve decided to
re-publish every feature that appeared in RPM digital-only copies since the July 2020 issue! Starting with the August 2024 mag (printed and digital) you will now find a bonus feature of one of those wild hot rods from the past 4 years... We hope you enjoy!
As always, thank you all for your continued support, RPM is the MAG that supports your sport!
For drag racing, the Mustang and Camaro are obvious picks of the litter, but there are other models such as the Chevelle and Nova that are in close running within the lineup of Bowtie offerings.
For Vince Moore, as long as it was a GM product, any one of the above would work to create the hot rod of his dreams.
Moore started hitting the dragstrip in El Paso,
Texas at the tender age of 11 to watch his mother's boyfriend bracket race. Enjoying his drag racing experience so much, Vince started working the ticket booth and concession stand on Friday nights until he could race independently. At 15 he began working part-time at a repair shop, learning to work on cars, and by 16 he started bracket racing his first car, a 1988 Chevy Camaro.
While working at the shop, he was befriended by a fellow employee who would mentor Vince in replacing the tiny V6 in the ’88 with a small block Chevy. Not groundbreaking power by any means, but to Vince it was night and
day. Once he graduated high school, the Camaro was sold, and this 1967 Chevelle became the replacement. “Believe it or not, I found this car for sale in the classified section of the local newspaper,” Moore explained.
Uncut!
That’s right, this Malibu is virtually unmolested chassis-wise and comes by its slick low-slung stance, with an ever so slight rake, by using the right suspension parts front and rear.
“It was only a roller, all primer and hard to look at. The front bench seat had all of the stuffing falling out of it, no carpet or headliner and the back seat was also all tore up. My plan was to buy a 1967 Camaro, Chevelle or Nova and this is what I found first, so I decided to go with it and picked it up for $1,500!”
Being only 18 years old at the time, money was scarce, but Vince did have time on his side, so at nights and on weekends he'd wrench on the '67.
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