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Question Of The Day: With A GM Chassis And Running Gear, How Would You Modify This 1987 Avanti?
Without a doubt, the original 1962-63 Studebaker Avanti was a polarizing car that was well ahead of it’s time. It had power (especially in supercharged trim), a bit of safety and quite a bit of...
This Big-Block AMC Ambassador Coupe Is The Last Of It’s Kind And Up For Grabs
This 1973 Ambassador Coupe represents one of the most forgotten last gasps of the musclecar era before it’s advancement into malaise. Sure, it’s a large by huge car, but if the shape...
Corvair War! Nice Try, Lohnes, But This 1964 Greenbriar Van Is Up Your Alley And We All Know It!
The only reason that Brian got the Crown-converted Monza coupe instead of me is because the man sleeps ten minutes a night, and he’s right about one thing…that it is absolutely badass....
Ebay Find: This “1971 ‘Cuda” Conversion Isn’t All That It’s Cracked Up To Be, And Leaves Us With More Questions Than Answers
Have you seen where a company takes a late-model car and changes up the sheet metal to make it look like a classic? We have…C5 Corvettes into C1 and C2s, 2005-up Mustangs into 1969-70 Mustangs...
Ebay Find: A 158-mile Old 1982 Oldsmoble Omega – The Car Has Pretty Much Sat For 33 Years And The Plastics STILL Fell Apart!
I’ve said it before on these pages and I’ll say it again: the front-wheel-drive Oldsmobile Omega just might be the most pointless vehicle ever produced. Born as one of the RWD X-car four...
This 1970 Chevelle SS Shorty Looks Like A Riot…If You Can Fit Inside Of It!
Take a stroked 427 breathing through dual quads on a tunnel ram, hook it to an automatic trans, and jam it into a 1970 Chevelle that has had 27 inches whacked out of the wheelbase and a Pro...
This 1978 Dodge Aspen Street Kit Car Is Clean, Bare Bones, And As Nasty As It Got In The Late 1970s
Think what you will of Chrysler Corporation’s decent towards insolvency in the late 1970s, but somewhere in Highland Park existed at least a few people who remembered what made them great just...
This 1964 Rambler 770 Is Dead-On Perfect! Take Out Home Equity, Smash The Piggybank, Someone Bring This One Home!
It takes a tremendous amount of talent to make a car look plane-Jane, absolutely menacing, period correct, and show-quality in one package, and usually an attempt results in a car that might do one...
Could This 1986 Oldsmobile Cutlass Ciera GT Be Made To Haul The Mail? We Think So.
GM’s A-body front drivers were excellent sellers, decent all around automobiles, and more boring than hanging around with Grandma on weekends when you were a kid. The Oldsmobile version, the...
Rough Start: Is This Rusty But Complete 1977 Pontiac Can Am Worth The Buy-In?
The best way to start a project car, budget or no, is to find the nicest starting point you can and work from there. But let’s say you aren’t willing to compromise: It must be rare, it...
Like The Idea Of An SUV, But Can’t Stand The Thought Of Actually Owning One? How About This 1959 Ford Station Wagon?
Sport utility vehicles are everywhere, and long gone is the memory of the family station wagon complete with wood paneling being the trusty do-it-all vehicle. It’s kind of nice to see wagons...
Ebay Find: A Questionably Legal 2010 Ford Focus RS For Sale In Vermont
Can’t wait for the new, made for the U.S. Market Ford Focus RS to hit the dealerships? Maybe you just want something you know your neighbors won’t have anytime soon, or really like green....
Question Of The Day: Have You Ever Wondered About The Story Behind An Abandoned Car That You Found?
Besides my usual pang of sadness at finding yet another car left to rot, I find myself intrigued when I come across an abandoned car in a strange place. Growing up in Washington, they were...
