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Classic Cars

Muscle cars and trucks. View the entire archive.

1986-1993 Cadillac Allante: They Got it Right … Too Late

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It began with high hopes - and an audacious plan. Unfortunately, it belly-flopped badly... . By the mid-1980s, Cadillac was still the "standard of the world" - if by "the world" one meant...

The Uncle-ized Car

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What’s the cost of Uncle when it comes to our cars? How much have his various fatwas added to the MSRP? One way to add it all up is to compare a...

The Road Warrior Didn’t Have OnStar

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It is probably a very good idea to learn how to adjust - and rebuild - a carburetor. To set point gap, even. Neither of which is a bad thing -...

The First is Last . . . Again

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In about two years from now, the Ford Mustang will be the last new car of its type still on the market - a fitting thing, given it was the first...

Doomed: Lincoln Continental (2017-2020)

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The ‘80s rocker Eddie Money had a hit song titled I Wanna Go Back - which could serve as the funeral dirge for Lincoln’s unsuccessful attempt to bring back the Continental...

The Gone Ones

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Tempus does fugit. I've been test driving new cars long enough that the first new cars I test drove are now Antique cars, literally. I recently found myself behind a '95 Mustang...

Reader Question: Can We Build The Perfect Car?

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Here's the latest reader question, along with my reply! Mark asks: I want to build a car from a good set of bones. I want an American muscle car that does everything...

The Weirdmobile

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One of there reasons to go to an old car show isn't so much because the cars are ancient but because they are weird - relative to the same, as they...

Black Plastic

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I hate plastic engine covers, which cover practically all new car engines. They serve the purpose of making all engines look the same. Of covering up what’s under there. Which serves...

Retro-review: 1983-1988 Monte Carlo SS

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If you were a kid in high school (or college) during the mid-late 1980s - and into fast cars - you probably have a place in your heart for the last...
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