Category Archive: Monday Shopper, OTHER
Money No Object: 1956 Continental Mark II – Hand-Built American Luxury
Making a luxury car is a lofty goal on it’s own accord. Making a luxury, hand-built, every-final-detail perfect car is a massive, expensive undertaking that results in a dramatically expensive...
Money No Object: 1971 Ford Galaxie 500 Wagon 429 Police Interceptor
Say “big-block station wagon” and you have our attention. And apparently yours, too, considering how many of you were all about the 1967 Impala 396 wagon that was in the budget build...
Muscle Before Muscle? This 1957 Buick Special Looks Pretty Aggressive For A Fin Car!
I have a very hard time looking at any 1950s car, especially ones with fins, and equating them with raw power and speed. Yes, even such examples as a fuel-injected 1957 Chevy and the Chrysler Letter...
Monday Shopper: 1969 427 4-Speed Chevrolet Biscayne – The Blue-Collar Bar Fighter
I will never get sick of 427-powered Chevrolet Biscaynes because I love the premise on which they were built. The Biscayne was the lightest version of the full-size Chevrolet you could order and...
Monday Shopper: This 1973 Ford Gran Torino Brougham Is The Right Car For The Right Ford Enthusiast
In the many cars that came through the yard when I was a kid, only a few really jumped out at me as being “good”. One of them was a gold 1972 Ford Gran Torino, the one with the formal...
Monday Shopper: The 1970 Oldsmobile Cutlass SX – Hiding In Plain Sight
1970 might have been the high point in the Musclecar Era, but even before the EPA started to become a problem, insurance agencies were causing all sorts of headaches for customers who drooled like...
Would You Rather: Datsun S30 Z-Car – Do You Like Yours Original Or Extra Spicy?
The Nissan S30 chassis, which is familiar to most people as the Nissan/Datsun 240Z, was a home run for the company when it went on sale in 1970. Small, light, nimble, powerful, and easily accessible,...
Money No Object: Two Fox-Body Specials In One Convertible – A 1985 Ford Mustang Twister II Predator G.T. 302!
Okay, four-eye Fox fans, have we got a doozy for you today. The bottom end of the Fox-body market is the dirt-cheap Craigslist find that can be scored for under a grand and built into something...
Random Car Review: The 1980 Chevrolet Corvette Duntov Turbo
A large amount of Corvette folklore is centered around Zora Arkus-Duntov. The term “Father of the Corvette” might be a touch misleading…the Corvette existed before he joined...
Money No Object: Whether Real Or Not, This Buick GS Stage II Is A Legend Of It’s Time
Musclecar legends are always popular, but proving or disproving them always stirs up the heated debates of whether or not things actually happened, whether or not the individuals claiming to know the...
A Home-Built RV That Isn’t Scary! This 1942 Chevrolet G506 Army Truck Is Beautiful!
World War II ramped up manufacturing in the United States like nothing else had before. Factories cranked out ships, planes, trains and trucks by the millions in the name of the War Effort. Everyone...
Super Sport Wagon: We’d Be Banging Gears In This Six-Speed Chevy Caprice Wagon All Day Long!
The miracle that Jon Moss pulled off with the Chevrolet Impala SS of the 1990s was nothing more than a hot-rodder reading the cards and putting the right pieces of the puzzle together. Standard, the...
Money No Object: Benny Parsons’ 1973 Chevrolet Chevelle Will Be Hitting The Auction Block!
Benny Parsons might not have had the amount of overall wins that bigger names of his day had, but he was good on one major account: consistency. He might not have been in first place, but you would...
This 1969 COPO Chevelle Is An Understated Badass! 427, Four-Speed, 4.10s Out Back!
Part of the beauty of the 1964-74 Musclecar Era was that manufacturers had started to embrace the idea that the buyer needed to be the one dictating options, not the factory. The first-generation...