Category Archive: BUICK / OLDS / PONTIAC, Craigslist Find
Wanna Roll Like The Colonel? This 1979 Cadillac Eldorado Biarritz Is Former Property Of The Face Behind KFC!
Does anybody outside of The Brougham Society look at a 1979 Cadillac Eldorado and think, “Oh, man, I’ve gotta have that! I don’t care what the price is, I’ll pay it, just sell...
Pro Street Goodness: All This 1971 Ford Mustang Mach 1 Needs Is A Massive Dose Of Power!
I love the big-bodied Mustangs. I love the shape of the front end (which is close enough to the 1969-70 Shelby Mustang for my tastes), I love the SportsRoof silhouette, I love the aggressiveness....
This 700 Horsepower, Nitrous-Infused Pontiac Solstice Is So Good, Even The Vehicle Virgins Can’t Believe It!
GM’s Kappa platform had promise. In usual parts-bin raiding, GM built a roadster platform and spawned two North American market cars, the Pontiac Solstice and Saturn Sky. You could spot the...
This 1978 Ford F-250 Is A Real Highboy! Part Freightliner, Part Show-Quality Truck, Together Is Perfect!
I honestly have no idea how long it’s been since I found a giant truck that is worthy of showcasing for the express purpose of causing Brian to make a noise that is a cross between an excited...
Too Little, Too Late, And Not Street-Legal…Yet: The 2000 Oldsmobile Intrigue SV Is Up For Auction!
In 2000, Oldsmobile was all but dead. They were still selling cars, but General Motors had committed the brand to the scrapyard. As the Auroras, Aleros, Silhouettes, Intrigues and Bravadas rolled off...
Project X Has Returned! The Legendary 1957 Chevrolet Is Inside Hot Rod Garage For Some Mods…
“Project X”, the bright yellow 1957 Chevrolet that has been a staple of automotive project builds for decades, has returned. It needs no introduction, but it might need a little bit of a...
Top 11: Shopping At Mecum’s Portland Auction – Two Days Of Difficult Decisions!
Portland, Oregon isn’t exactly automotive Mecca, but it isn’t the desert, either. There is plenty of gorgeous iron hiding among the redwoods and Douglas Firs, and if you cross the...
This G-body Monte Carlo Is A Nitrous-Fed Monster That ls Barely Controlled!
It’s a nice problem to have when you spend the night at the track trying to tune down the combination you’re running to make the most out of what you’ve got, isn’t it?...
It’s Certainly Patriotic: This 1976 Chevrolet K-10 Scottsdale Bonanza “Spirit of ’76” Edition Is Anything But Subtle!
Chalk up another special edition vehicle that I’d never heard of. It wasn’t uncommon to find special edition cars that celebrated America’s bicentennial in the...
Rough Start: Someone Had Big Plans For This 1978 Chevrolet Malibu At One Point!
Clean, isn’t it? You’d suspect we found a bone-stock, 69,000 mile 1978 Chevrolet Malibu with the F41 suspension and ran with it, and normally, you’d be right: finding one of the...
Rough Start: This 1978 Dodge D-100 Was The Hot Ticket In 1978, And Would Make A Great First Build!
The scene was bleak for performance cars in 1978. Cars were choked out with smog laws, low compression and catalytic converters. Former heavy hitters, like the Pontiac Trans Am, Chevrolet Camaro Z28...
A Bracket Bomber From The Day They Bought It, This 1977 Chevrolet Caprice Coupe Is On The Number No Matter What!
I walked through the staging lanes of Beech Bend, looking over the cars that were waiting to head out for their tuning passes, when I saw a shape that is etched into my memory: a...
Quick Review: 2016 Chevrolet Camaro RS 2LT Four-Cylinder – How Does GM’s Pony Car Stack Up With Only Half Of The Deck?
In the fall of 1981, the new-for-1982 Chevrolet Camaro offered up an option that pretty much told you how bad the situation was: the LQ9, better known as Pontiac’s “Iron Duke”...
Motor Trend Tests The Chevrolet SS Sedan Out, Compares It To A Fifteen-Year-Old BMW, Doesn’t Bother Testing New BMWs
Up front: the video is going to be exactly what you are expecting from Motor Trend. Jason Cammisa will drive a car, Randy Pobst will show you how hard the car can be driven, and you’ll hear a...