ASTORIA CHAS: KO-MOTION L88 STING RAY

Posted on November 28, 2025November 28, 2025 by MartynL

Corvette Report’s Scott Teeters blogs about New York's ASTORIA CHAS: KO-MOTION L88 STING RAY, the Buddy Holly of drag racing! As a lad growing up during the muscle car era in the South Jersey/Philadelphia area, http://Hi-Performance CARS Magazine was my favorite car magazine. The publication had a definite East Coast flavor, and slightly favored Chevys, which was perfectly fine with me at the time. One of my favorite cars of the day was the KO-MOTION L88, 1967 http://427 L88 drag rac...

GARAGE STYLE: IN THE GARAGE W/ JIM PALAM!

Posted on August 8, 2018August 8, 2018 by MartynL

Our man on the Left Coast spends some time in front of the camera in his garage while Cindy Meitle profiles him for Garage Style magazine. I first met Jim Palam more than a half-century ago when he was a kid on the pit crew of the legendary “Astoria Chas” Snyder’s ‘67 Corvette powered by an L88 engine, below. The car was KO-MOTION, it was built at Motion Performance, Baldwin, NY, raced by Chas, and I was Editor of Hi-Performance CARS magazine. CARS was one of the Corvette’s sponsors. Chas becam...

MARK IV: THE BIG-BLOCK THAT ROARED!

Posted on April 24, 2015May 15, 2017 by MartynL

A guide to the engine that made Chevrolet The Number One Team. Between 1965 and 1976, Chevrolet’s iconic big-block distinguished itself in all forms of racing, and on the street in Corvettes, Camaros, Chevelles, Novas and full-size Chevys. Big-blocks started out with cast-iron blocks and heads, progressed to cast-iron block with aluminum heads (L-88) and peaked with aluminum block and heads (ZL-1). L-88 aluminum-head 427 engine, top, in '68 Baldwin-Motion Camaro. Joel Rosen, left, tun...