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Category Archive: BUICK / OLDS / PONTIAC, CAR FEATURES, Videos

The Great White Whale: This 1973 Cadillac Eldorado Is Cruising Peruvian Boulevards!

Photos don’t do the 1970s Cadillac Eldorados justice…they are freaking massive. Over eighteen feet long, six and a half feet wide, rocking 500 cubic inches of front-driven...

Rally Royalty: Petrolicious Checks Out An American-Owned Lancia Delta Integrale

After Group B was shut down due to safety concerns, the next top-tier rally class, Group A, was introduced and any doubts about whether or not the cars could be competitive and exciting to watch were...

Never Understood The Draw Of The Cloverleaf Cars? Check Out This Alfa Romeo Montreal!

Alfas have flaws, they feel human, as if they have a soul and a temper. Each one is like the tortured hero of a Russian novel, a car of extraordinary depths, a car you can never truly fathom,...

Another One Saved – Check Out This Film Of The Rescue Of A 1969 Dodge Charger SE!

You know the story: you find the car of your dreams, sitting where it has sat for decades. You look over every detail, good and bad…the slime growing on the paint, the cobwebs growing around...

Handbuilt By A 17-Year-Old, Driven More Than It Should Have Ever Been And Restored By Everybody’s Favorite Rich Car Guy: The 1931 Shotwell!

Here’s a fun question: what were you doing when you were seventeen years old? Give it some thought. I’ll speak for myself: I was already moved out on my own, with a car and a full-time...

Blue-Blood Ramp Truck: Jay Leno Shows Off His Replica 1950 Mercedes-Benz “Rennabteilung” Race Car Hauler

It’s a strange-looking beast, isn’t it? In the early 1950s, Mercedes-Benz’s preferred method for keeping their race cars running was to bring the cars back to Germany for work...

It’s Italian, Funky And Set Up For Long-Distance Roaming – Jay Leno’s Freshly-Restored 1969 Lamborghini Espada Is Great!

From the front, it looks lie a big-boy Mustang, complete with NACA ducts and one thin chrome bar that thinks it’s a bumper. From the rear, you get hints Honda CRX. No, really…you have a...

Not Every Aussie Hot Rod Has A Blower! Check Out This Sleepy Holden Commodore Ute!

Well, there goes the Outback. The 1320Video gang have taken the long plane ride around the back of the planet to Australia and have been checking out the offerings that we here in the states tend to...

Jay Leno Gets To Shake Down The Predecessor To The 440 Dodge Police Car, The 1961 California Highway Patrol Polara!

Ask a car guy which cop car of all time was the best, and the chances are solid that you’ll hear about one of the late 1960s-early 1970s Dodge or Plymouth Pursuit package cars equipped with the...

What Would It Look Like If Ford Built A No-Rules Test Mule? Jay Leno Takes A Look At Steve Strope’s 1967 Ford Fairlane!

In the mid-1960s, Ford and Chrysler were at war, period. GM might have been working the field too, but on the banked NASCAR tracks and on the NHRA drags trips, the Blue Oval boys and the gang from...

Unhinged: The Most Exotic Thing I’ve Ever Spun A Wrench On, A Lancia Scorpion

(Lead photo: Hemmings) It’s safe to say that most “exotic” cars are safely kept away from me in some form or another. I’ll probably never own a Lamborghini or a Ferrari, let...

Jay Leno Brings Out His 1964 Triumph Bonneville For A Spring Ride – Check This One Out!

Modern motorcycles are engineering triumphs…pardon the pun. They hit speeds that should honestly terrify the holy hell out of a sane rider, grip like a vice in a corner, and accelerate with a...

Take A Ride In Jay Leno’s Ford Festiva Shogun – America’s Take On The Group B Rally Psycho-Hatch!

This 1989 Ford Festiva Shogun is often seen in the background of Jay Leno’s car videos, and has been featured before. Purchased new in 1989, Leno had to have one after he was shown the initial...

Morning Symphony: Canyon-Carving With A 7.0L Superformance-Built Shelby Daytona Coupe!

It has ties to aircraft manufacturer Convair, Ferrari, LeMans, Ford and was only built because of the Mulsanne straight at LeMans…the original version, without the two chicanes in it. The...