The Last Thunderbird
All of us know - or have heard about - the apparently healthy, successful person who one day just drops dead unexpectedly.
In a way, this is the story of the Thunderbird....
In the Rearview: Ferrari 365 GTB/4 Daytona (1968-1973)
The last of a thing is often a cause for nostalgia, even regret. The new thing may be objectively superior and hard to fault by the numbers. But something’s been lost,...
Missing the Cordoba
"I know my own needs," said Ricardo Montalban. "And what I need from an automobile, I find in this new Cordoba." He went on to explain the various virtues of this...
The Almost Muscle Car: Chevy Monza, 1975-1980
The '70s (and early '80s) were Weird Years for the car industry. The muscle car era of the '60s was fading fast, but the fumes still lingered… what would come next?...
Muscle Car Classics of the ’80s… Get ‘Em While You Still Can (Afford ‘Em)
Back around 1980, the now-legendary, much-coveted and Big Bucks muscle cars of the 1960s and early 1970s were just tired old cars; common sights at seedy used car lots - and...
New Performance Shoes for Old Performance Cars?
If you own a classic muscle car made back in the '60s or '70s, you've probably become aware of an ironic problem: It is virtually impossible to find new performance tires...
Encomium to Pontiac
It is coming up on the eleventh anniversary of the death of Pontiac, a fatality not so much of the 2007-2008 financial collapse - which delivered the coupe de grace -...
Plug n’ Play
One of the great things about old cars is you can selectively update them with modern technology without them turning into modern cars.
An overdrive transmission - but not air bags. Better...
The Yugo and its Merits
The joke goes: How do you double the value of a Yugo?
Fill up the gas tank!
True enough.
And yet, nearly 800,000 of them were made - all the way through 2008, a...
A Muscular Battery For Your Muscle Car
There are two battery-related challenges to owning an old muscle car.
First, the old beasts can be hard to start - especially if the engine is a big V-8 with high...