Mrs. Chrysler’s Chrysler Takes Best in Show at Hemmings Concours
Posted on Dec 5, 2020 in Featured | 2 comments
Howard Kroplick with his chauffeur-driven 1937 Chrysler Imperial C-15 Town Car. Judging at the annual Hemmings Concours d’Elegance is no easy task. With more than 150 exclusive cars on the show field spread across 17 classes, it is easy to be overwhelmed by the sheer quality, rarity and overall condition of the show entrants. The difficulty comes when you need...
Read MoreStarting Small: 1971 Honda Z600 Coupe and N600 Sedan brochure
Posted on Nov 8, 2020 in Featured | 2 comments
Everybody has to start somewhere. And although the Honda Motor Company‘s first four-wheeled products were the brilliantly designed S(port)500/S600/S800 roadsters of the mid-1960s, American buyers weren’t able to purchase those through official channels. The first Honda cars that we could—and did—buy in those pre-Civic days were the Z600 Coupe and S600 Sedan,...
Read MoreBronco, Ford’s first SUV, turns 50
Posted on Oct 9, 2020 in Featured | 2 comments
Photos courtesy Ford Motor Company, except where noted. Other manufacturers had pioneered the format before the Bronco. Others had even applied the “sport utility” name to their products before the Bronco. But Ford’s Bronco, when it hit the scene in late 1965, was the first to combine the two and open wide the four-wheeling market—and then later take that...
Read MoreA period-modified 1970 GTO appears on the ‘Rockford Files’
Posted on Sep 3, 2020 in Featured | 2 comments
As a regular viewer of The Rockford Files when the show originally aired in the 1970s and I was just a little kid, I’ve remained a fan since then. Every few years or so, I end up watching episodes again via reruns on TV or the DVD collection. While there’s plenty to be written on Jim Rockford’s (James Garner) string of gold second-gen Firebirds, this blog will...
Read MoreStill the Standard: 1968 Cadillac brochure
Posted on Aug 18, 2020 in Featured | 2 comments
Decades ago, before Cadillac’s ultimate goal was to out-BMW the Bavarians, this General Motors flagship division sought to offer Americans the utmost in luxury and effortless motoring. And in the late 1960s, they did this in great style. The 1968 Cadillac line featured some of the cleanest, most handsome interpretations of the stacked headlamp/sliver taillamp...
Read MoreRare ’68 Dodge Super Bee Hemi snags Best in Show at Musclepalooza XXII
Posted on Jul 6, 2020 in Featured | 2 comments
Joe Sokola with his 1968 Dodge Super Bee. Call us suckers for factory stripped-down muscle cars, if you want. And Hemis. And four-speeds. And numbers-matching models. And rare combinations. And spectacular restorations to factory-correct standards. Add it all up, as was the case with Joe Sokola’s 1968 Dodge Super Bee, and you get our Best in Show winner for...
Read MoreDemolition of Carter Carburetor factory in St. Louis begins
Posted on Jun 3, 2020 in Featured | 2 comments
Image via Google Maps. For decades, Carter remained a cornerstone of the carburetor industry, supplying many of the major carmakers, but then the adoption of electronic fuel injection wiped the company out nearly overnight. For 30-plus years, the old Carter Carburetor factory has sat empty, an admonition to the intractable, until this week, when the cleanup of...
Read MoreThe Sexy European: 1970 Ford Capri brochure
Posted on Apr 2, 2020 in Featured | 2 comments
The marketers at Ford in Dearborn weren’t underselling their newest European delicacy, when it arrived in America for model year 1970—it really was an attractive, youthful car. It was famously conceived as Europe’s take on the incredibly popular Mustang, and although it would emerge from factories in England and Germany, the lines of the Capri—which was...
Read MoreBase model Bowtie: The plain-Jane beauty of a 1964 Chevrolet Chevelle 300
Posted on Mar 21, 2020 in Featured | 2 comments
Rick Finney’s 1966 Chevrolet Chevelle 300. With so much interest shown towards the Studebaker Scotsman, we thought you would also be interested in seeing a stripped-down Chevrolet. While it may not be as bare-bones as that Scotsman, this 1964 Chevelle 300 four-door sedan comes fairly close. From the outside, there is just a single thin strip of chrome trim down...
Read MoreAfter all these cars, am I still a car guy?
Posted on Feb 23, 2020 in Featured | 2 comments
Me and my father with the 1968 Triumph TR-250, at a “high-speed” auto-cross run on an abandoned runway in 1979 at Orange Airport, Massachusetts. I think I won my class that day. All photos courtesy of the author. [Editor’s Note: Reader Peter Doherty, Jr. recently wrote in with his story of cars loved and lost and races won and lost, all to ponder what it really...
Read MoreVintage ad: 1982 Pontiac Firebird Trans Am – The Driver’s Car
Posted on Jan 15, 2020 in Featured | 2 comments
Cropped image from 1982 magazine ad. In 1981, Pontiac introduced the third-generation Firebird Trans Am as a 1982 model, the car’s first clean-sheet redesign since the second-generation debuted in 1970 as a 1970 ½ model. Six years in the making, the new Trans Am was smaller and lighter than the model it replaced, and far more aerodynamic. Knowing it couldn’t...
Read MoreEconomical transportation: Studebaker’s bare-bones Scotsman of 1957-’58
Posted on Dec 14, 2019 in Featured | 2 comments
Boy have times have changed. Imagine today calling a cheap, stripped-down car a Scotsman? Such derogatory stereotype references would cause all sorts of problems with the manufacturer. But back in the easy going Fifties it was thought of as comical. With Scottish people having long been known as quite frugal when it comes to money, when Studebaker created this...
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