Category Archive: BUICK / OLDS / PONTIAC, Craigslist Find
Rough Start: 1972 Pontiac LeMans – Rough And Ready For A Good Time
During one of many late Friday night film screenings, I was asked which car I’d take as we watched the movie Joe Dirt. Far as I care, there’s three to pick from: The 1967 Plymouth...
Rough Start: 1978 Dodge Magnum XE – The Last Gasp Of The Muscle Charger
Looking at the title, I’m sure that many of you quickly got that look on your face that precludes you diving into the comments section with, “What in the hell are you talking...
Beautiful Beast Of Burden: This 1956 Ford F-100 Has An Amazing Utility Body And Is Weathered Perfectly
Alan Reinhart gets the credit for sending me this big truck that will haunt my dreams for months on end. You are looking at a wonderful 1956 Ford F-600 that’s equipped with one of the most...
Rough Start: Go For A Stretch With This 1994 Cadillac Fleetwood!
Thanks to COVID-19, a lot of businesses are packing it in due to a sudden, sharp lack of demand in services. Don’t believe me? Hertz has gone bankrupt. Yeah, that’s right, the land of...
Pride Of Kenosha: This 1974 AMC Matador Is An Original Paint Survivor That Might Be A Little Boring, But It Sure Is Nice!
When it comes to survivor cars, we kind of love them all. We just don’t love them all equally. There’s an undeniably cool element in the “survivor” tag, right? The fact that...
Rough Start: Go Big With A 1974 Dodge D-500 And Give The Old Farm Truck A Fair Shake
The Mopar itch is never too far from this soul, it seems. I might be up to the elbows in Ford products right now but there’s still a part of me that is dying inside for an older Chrysler ride...
With Authority: 1977 Ford LTD II With 460 And That Police-Spec Look
It’s very easy to see how Ford was losing market share in the later 1970s…everything looked like the Lincoln Continental! In the rush to chase the sales success of the Chevrolet Monte...
Dwarf Adder: This 1978 Mustang Cobra II Is Small But Threatening
In total, there were three graphic setups for the Mustang II Cobra. The first one can simply be called the “Farrah”…the word “Cobra” runs long the low flank in one...
The Perfect Daily Driver Is Back! 1987 Chevrolet Cavalier Z24, With Blown 3.8L V6 And Five-Speed!
Last Spring, after seeing what my travel schedule looked like, my wife decided that it was high time that we purchase a fuel-mileage oriented car. I conceded. Nothing against Angry Grandpa’s...
Rough Start: 1977 American Motors Matador Sedan – Well, The Paint’s Done!
If you are considering a project car for the first time, and you’re running on a budget like the Rough Start setup of $5,000 total for a running, driving car, don’t think that...
Tales Taller Than The Intake Manifold? Is This Monza Making the Advertised 600hp With This Tunnel Rammed Small Block?
You know that we’re definitely on Team Small Block Monza around here. Between the cars that Chad and McTag find and ones like this baby that our main Craigslist savant Rocco did, there’s...
Rough Start: 1983 Pontiac Trans Am – Pay A Little Extra For The Good Stuff
Five thousand dollars is the budget we use for the Rough Start budget. The goal is simple: to find a car that, using that total amount or less, will run and drive well enough to be useful, or to have...
Rough Start: 1976 Chevrolet Chevelle Malibu – The Daily-Driver Deal
The amount of disgust that was thrown at cars like this 1976 Chevrolet Malibu back in the day bordered on the idiotic. I’ll be fair…for an intermediate car, they were freaking huge, the...
