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Vintage PR Shots: What’s With All The Dog Dish Hubcaps?
Posted on April 15, 2023 | 65 CommentsTwo beautiful 1961 Impalas, showing off their sleek new rear ends, and both have dog dish hubcaps? Seems so unlikely, especially so for a convertible. Back in the day, one […] -
Road Signs Of A Lifetime
Posted on April 14, 2023 | 124 Comments(first posted 4/14/2017) As my regular readers know, I take pictures. Lots of pictures. I take pictures of my cars. I take pictures of my rental cars. For this dive […] -
Vintage Ad: What Is It? Mark IV? Rolls?
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Auction Classics: Arizona 2023 – How Low [Mileage] Can You Go? part 2 of 2
Posted on April 12, 2023 | 31 CommentsToday’s and yesterday’s articles asked the question: How low can you go? The answer: pretty darned low. Today’s cars are once again presented in descending order of […] -
Auction Classics: Arizona 2023 – How Low [Mileage] Can You Go? part 1 of 2
Posted on April 11, 2023 | 28 CommentsContinuing my series on cars mined from my visit to Arizona Auction Week in and around Scottsdale in January, I’ll profile the best low mileage cars I found […] -
CC Caption Contest: What’s He Telling Her?
Posted on April 10, 2023 | 48 CommentsTwo 1965 Studebakers in the same place? What are the odds? Something fishy is going on here… -
TOTGA: 1960 (Not Yet Mercury) Comet – Crisis Averted
Posted on April 5, 2023 | 34 CommentsSometimes, a car that got away can make us wish things had turned out differently. But not always. Which brings me to another TOTGA – a car that was one […] -
CC TV: Cars Of The Flintstones
Posted on April 1, 2023 | 45 CommentsToday is a good day as any to attend pending matters at CC. While a good deal of automotive history has already been covered in these pages, there’s been a […] -
Vintage Ad: RHD Jeep Cherokee – “All Right!”
Posted on March 30, 2023 | 13 CommentsI’m struggling to find an exact year when Subaru first started selling RHD versions of the Legacy in the US specifically for rural mail carriers, but I do know they […] -
Automotive History: Ultrasonic Fuel Systems We Could’ve Had
Posted on March 26, 2023 | 55 CommentsUltrasonic humidifiers—hang on; I promise relevance—were all the rage in the ’80s. These were great -
Curbside Classic: 1970 Plymouth Satellite – Lesser Known B-Side
Posted on March 25, 2023 | 28 CommentsOut of the box, yet not quite fuselage. By the mid sixties Chrysler’s stylist had trimmed, decorated, and embellished Elwood Engel’s favored boxy forms so many times, that they must […] -
Auction Classics: Arizona 2023 – It’s Only Original Forever, part 2 of 2
Posted on March 8, 2023 | 22 CommentsYesterday we looked at some GM cars I saw on my visit to Arizona Auction Week in and around Scottsdale, with a focus on cars in excellent, unrestored, […] -
Auction Classics: Arizona 2023 – It’s Only Original Forever, part 1 of 2
Posted on March 7, 2023 | 42 CommentsYou know the saying: It’s Only Original Once. Sometimes, though, once can last a very long time. I submit the following vehicles as evidence. You’ll find a smorgasbord […] -
1993 Volvo 850 GLT – Brick, Red
Posted on March 3, 2023 | 55 CommentsHey, look; it’s a first-year 850. And it’s eligible for those collector licence plates on it because that first year was three -
1987-’91 Ford F-Series Bustruck – Monster Mashup
Posted on February 28, 2023 | 29 CommentsHere’s a compelling argument for body-on-frame construction, eh! Somebody cut together a