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Car Show Classic: 1970 AMC Rebel Machine – A Tale Of Two Machines, Only One Of Them Sexy
Posted on June 29, 2023 | 39 CommentsSome cars are immortalized in music. The cool cars, mostly. From the rockabilly classic Hot Rod Lincoln to the Beach Boys’ T-Bird (that was so Fun Fun Fun) to Prince […] -
Automotive History: Shockingly Low Volume Production Cars – The Dodge Edition
Posted on June 6, 2023 | 49 Comments(first posted 6/6/2017) For this latest installment of exploring low volume production cars, let’s take a look at Dodge, the sometimes mid-priced sometimes low-priced brand in the […] -
Automotive History: Indianapolis 500 Pace Cars (Part 6, 1970-74)
Posted on May 25, 2023 | 54 Comments(Originally published May 10, 2013) The 1970s marked a beginning of a change in Indianapolis 500 Pace Cars. As the ’70s unfolded, the undertaking of supplying a Pace Car, along […] -
Automotive History: Shockingly Low Volume Production Cars – The Ford Edition
Posted on May 18, 2023 | 87 Comments(first posted 5/18/2017) With Part One of this Low Production series having focused on Chevrolet, it only seems natural to turn our attention to its long-time rival, Ford. As […] -
Curbside Classic: 1974 Triumph Toledo–The Only Car Ever To Be Switched From FWD To RWD?
Posted on May 14, 2023 | 72 Comments(first posted 12/11/2012) Here’s a little number I’d never heard of until I noticed these photos, posted to the Cohort by Down- Under cameraman Bryce. Triumph Toledo? Did they sell […] -
Salvage Yard Classics: A Trip To Kansas City
Posted on May 5, 2023 | 36 CommentsWhat’s a guy to do when he has a short but indeterminate amount of time to kill when in Kansas City? Why, you drop off the wife at her destination […] -
Curbside Classic: 1970 AMC Hornet – Today Is The First Day of the Rest Of Your Life
Posted on January 26, 2023 | 121 Comments(first posted 4/30/2013) The 1970s was the decade of pop psychology. How could anyone alive during that time forget the phenomena of I’m OK, You’re OK and Jonathan Livingston Seagull? […] -
Curbside Recycling: 1970 Lincoln Continental Mark III – Snow Angel (Of Death)
Posted on January 12, 2023 | 53 CommentsThe not-so-pearly chainlink gates of the junkyard do not discriminate, they welcome one and all to the heaven that is laid out on a bounteous few acres of land often […] -
Curbside Classic: 1970 Cadillac Fleetwood Brougham: Last Of The True Cadillacs
Posted on December 15, 2022 | 109 Comments(first posted 12/03/2012) In the past couple of weeks we’ve seen several examples of Cadillac’s peak. Starting with its inception in 1902 and continuing more or less through the Sixties, […] -
The Little Engines That Could, Part 3: A Fuselage Dodge Rated For Thirty Degree Performance
Posted on October 7, 2022 | 59 Comments(first posted 10/7/2016) Welcome to Part 3 of our journey exploring relatively small displacement engines used at various times in automotive history. While our last two chapters covered pickups […] -
Curbside Musings: 1970 Cadillac Sedan deVille – I’m Not A Cadillac Man, But If I Was A Cadillac Man, This Would Be My Cadillac, Man.
Posted on August 29, 2022 | 58 CommentsAnd the snow stopped, and the sun came out, and some of the snow melted, and there for me to behold was this creature formed from molten steel over half […] -
Curbside Classic / Cars of my Father: 1970 Lincoln Continental Mark III – Lemon Yellow
Posted on June 19, 2022 | 27 CommentsI have wanted to write about a Continental Mark III since I began writing for CC over a decade ago. Not the gargantuan 1959 version, but the one from the […] -
Car Show Coverage: The May 2022 Mid-Missouri Old Car Club Cruise-In – Follow The Yellow Brick Road
Posted on June 3, 2022 | 46 CommentsThe other day I realized, not even accounting for that little viral thing, it had been several years since I had been to a car show. While that isn’t always […]