Category Archive: Monday Shopper, OTHER
Ruby Red Mist: The Only Completed, Road-Legal TVR Speed 12 Is Going Up For Auction
Why, oh why, would we bother showcasing a supercar going up for auction that is probably going to sell for seven figures? It wasn’t owned by someone of note, so it isn’t like Ken...
Money No Object: Dad’s Old ’69 Caprice Certainly Had Guts, Didn’t It?
Nostalgia might be the strongest force when it comes to all of us who are afflicted with this gearhead sickness. Somewhere along the way, usually early on, there was something about a car that made...
ARP Adds More Accessory Studs With Rounded “Nut Starter” Available For A Variety Of Applications!
ARP’s (Automotive Racing Products) unique accessory studs with a rounded “nut starter” nose are available for an ever-increasing variety of applications. These include specially designed studs...
Would You Rather: ’74 Nickey Camaro vs. ’74 Firebird Pro Touring Build?
Remember the joys of Christmas shopping? Not the mall, not Santa, not Christmas music until you puke…the moment you were in the toy store and your parents said they would get you one...
Would You Rather, The Longroof Chevy Edition: LSA Malibu Or 454 Kingswood?
Some things will never change. The bills will arrive, the taxes will come due, the sun will set in the west at the end of each and every day. And I will be surfing all sorts of ads, looking at all...
Pro Personal Luxury: This 1971 Pontiac Grand Prix Model J Creates Envy
The “personal luxury coupe” that became prevalent in the 1970s sought to do two things. One, it was a way to extend out the price range of an intermediate coupe by allowing an...
Money No Object: 1974 Pontiac Trans Am SD-455 In White And Blue
How is it that two cars, on the same platform, built in the same year from the same company, could be so alarmingly different? GM’s F-body might have kept the musclecar flame burning through...
Money No Object: 1970 Chevrolet Impala Kingswood Wagon With A 502 Under The Hood
In this day and age, the great lumbering beasts of the road are the full-size sport-utility vehicles. Based on full-size trucks, able to seat a large family, able to tow good-sized loads, filled to...
Money No Object: 1971 Ford Mustang Boss 351
Within the half-century plus timeframe in which the Ford Mustang has been produced, there have been a lot of hits. The original was akin to Babe Ruth’s “called shot”, one that shut...
Money No Object: “Big Daddy” Don Garlits’ 1967 Dodge Hemi Coronet Sedan
Mopar fans pride themselves on the rarity of their cars. Most musclecar-era fans do, but for some reason the gravitas that a super-rare piece of Chrysler Corporation history seems to hold more...
Unhinged: The Honda Prelude, The Car I Learned To Not Hate
Growing up, I knew that I loved loud, brash V8-powered things. I loved pickup trucks with glasspacks that sounded mighty. I loved musclecars and 1970s poser cruisers that were loud enough to get my...
Money No Object: 1969 Pontiac GTO “The Judge” With An LS3/5-Speed Swap
Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In went off the air in 1973. So, to be quite fair, you will have to get a history lesson together for anybody under the age of 40 if you really want to explain the...
Money No Object: 2001 Ferrari 550 Barchetta Pininfarina – If You’re Going To Go Full Supercar, Do It Right!
It was the great dividing battle among budding young car geeks in the early 1990s: were you a Ferrari or Lamborghini kid? They were easy to tell apart: one bought the poster of the red Miami Vice-era...
