Cars Illustrated - Volume 5 Number 2 (DIGITAL EDITION)

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Detroit’s Fastest Cars

1987½ Buick GNX vs. Callaway Twin Turbo Vette

The publishers of Cars Illustrated changed the brand’s logo in this issue to include the magazine’s name surrounded by a red box.  On the editorial front, two low 13-second cars from GM (the 1987 Buick GNX and the 1987 Callaway twin turbo Corvette) took the cover while more street racing action was included to fill out the content. 

This is a 1:1 digital copy that will let you read Cars Illustrated - Volume 5, Number 2 on your phone, tablet, laptop, or home computer.

WHAT'S INSIDE:

Motown Showdown

14 Buick GNX vs. Callaway Twin Turbo Corvette, Battle of Detroit’s fastest cars.

Pavement Pounders

22 GTX-Terminator, ’71 Plymouth Hemi GTX C/SA terror.

36 Plastique Mystique, 10-second ’66 427 Vette street rat.

40 Rod Squad, ’34 Ford rod is the mellowest car we’ve ever featured.

43 Grand Slam, Jumpin’ GrandAm is a gas, gas, gasser.

46 Look What They’ve Done to My Yenko, This month’s ’69 Camaro is a 10-second terror.

52 Tales From the Dark Side, Rat powered F-body demoralizer

56 ’55 Chevy From Planet X, What’s a car magazine without a ’55 Chevy?

58 Snake Bite City, ’67 Mustang goes 12s and takes home car show gold.

Tech

25 Ladder Bar of Success, The straight scoop on going straight.

49 3000 Horsepower the Easy Way, Top Fuel Primer.

Bathroom Reading

3 Contents Page, Revised UFO spotters guide.

29 Motown’s Greatest Hits, History’s top 10 supercars – as we see’em.

34 Capt. Bimbo and His Electric Grandmother, Meet America’s newest superhero team.

61 1987 NASCAR Review, Stand on it!