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Vintage Review: 1961 Dodge Lancer With Three Slant Sixes: 170, 225 & 225...
We’ve bestowed a lot of love on the slant six hereabouts, especially the legendary Hyper-Pak version. It’s been portrayed as a V8 killer and able to leap tall buildings. But we’ve never had a proper...
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Curbside Classic: 1977 AMC Gremlin – Pay 8% More, Get 13% Less HP and 33%...
(first posted 1/23/2014) The Gremlin always danced to a different tune. Its design (in the loosest sense of that word) was penned on an air-sickness bag. It was front heavy, dull-handling, and...
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Curbside Find: 1971 Chevelle Malibu – Not Exactly What Comes To Mind When You...
Quick: What comes to mind when you hear the word Malibu? Almost certainly not this. It’s a dull four-door sedan with no apparent options other than the two-tone paint job. Check out those original...
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Cohort Sighting: 1952 Goliath GP 700 Rometsch – It Looks Like A Porsche But...
(first posted 6/7/2014) I did a double take when I ran across this at the Cohort, posted by frasier5. There were a number of German low-volume cars that shared certain styling elements with the...
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The Junkyard Sculpture Garden
shot and posted by canadiancatgreen These aren’t cars anymore; they have been liberated from the assumptions, expectations and demands placed on them by their makers and owners. No more! They’re...
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Curbside Classic: 1963 Corvair Monza Spyder Convertible – The Turbo...
(first posted 6/5/2014) Turbochargers are becoming ubiquitous. At the rate that manufacturers are adopting down-sized turbocharged engines across their model lines, naturally aspirated engines may...
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CC Capsule: Alfa Romeo 2600 Sprint – Giorgetto Giugiaro’s Brilliant Debut
(First posted Dec. 1, 2013) The 1963 Alfa Romeo Sprint GTV is indisputably one of the finest and most enduring designs of the century. It’s just brilliantly beautiful, clean, and has aged splendidly;...
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Vintage Motor Trend Review: 1964 Studebaker Super Lark – A Better GTO?
(first posted 10/27/2018) The GTO has become universally acclaimed as the first of the “muscle cars”, a smaller sedan/coupe packing the punch of a hot V8 along with a four-on-the-floor and a...
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Curbside Classic: 1981 Subaru BRAT With Third Eye “Passing Lamp”– A Brief...
Subaru was known for being a bit eccentric back in the day — or was it its owners that were eccentric? Is there a difference? They both seem to have found each other. And if it was dark out, Subaru’s...
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Curbside Classic Lite: 1967 Buick LeSabre 400 Sedan – That Does Not Mean a...
(first posted 10/28/2018) When I first spotted this Buick sedan from some distance in a weedy empty lot outside Baker City, Oregon, on our recent trip, I thought it might be a Wildcat sedan,...
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Vintage Snapshots: The Real Taxis of New York in 1972 – My Bias is Confirmed
(first posted 10/24/2018) I’m not sure what will have appeared in the comments in response to JPC’s Outtake of a 1972 Ford taxi in NYC, but since I previewed it ahead of time, I got the chance...
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Curtis Perry Outtake: 1962 Falcon – Gothmobile
(first posted 10/27/2018) Curtis Perry has uploaded some new shots at the Cohort, and I’ll start with this one. I was going to title it something like “Classic Hipstermobile”, but then I...
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Vintage Review: 1965 Plymouth Sport Fury 426 And Belvedere I Six – Fast and...
In 1965, the truly big Plymouth Fury returned after a three-year hiatus, which started in 1962 with the controversial downsizing. But the former “full size” wasn’t ditched; it was now renamed...
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Cohort Classic: 1970 Dodge Charger R/T – Magnum Patina
(first posted 6/6/2013) This has to be one of the best CC Cohort finds ever, by ActuallyMike. I’ve lived in hope of just finding any street-side Charger of this vintage, never mind an R/T. And with...
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CC Outtake: 1984 VW Jetta – A Well Preserved Survivor
(first posted 11/2/2018) I’m always amazed at how many gen1 VW Rabbits (Golf) are still around. Most of them are diesels, which made them more desirable, as they developed a rather cult-like...
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1962 Ford Falcon Sports Futura Hipster Found Hiding In Alley 15 Years After...
It’s always a bit heart-warming to run into an old friend that you haven’t seen in 15 years and didn’t know that they were still around. I first shot this Falcon back in 2009, in the early days of my...
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Design Capsule: ZIS 112 Cyclops – Does This Russian Car Look A Bit Too Familiar?
(first posted 2/15/2011) The fact that Russia did some major automotive cribbing back in the day is old hat. But here’s one that managed to escape me until today: the ZIS 112. Well, they...
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Cohort Outtake: The Most Pathetic Thunderbird Ever
(first posted 10/23/2018) John Lloyd posted this shot at the Cohort with the title “Ugliest Thunderbird”. Actually, it’s not, as this one has the rather tame roof instead of the really horrible...
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CC For Sale: 1975 Argentine Falcon – Something A Bit Different For Your...
(first posted 10/4/2018) Sure original-style Falcons were still being made in 1975; in Argentina. We did an extensive look at the near-immortal Falcon made there between 1962 and 1991 here. Now...
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On The Go Classic: No, It’s Not A Malibu, Although It Is How Old Malibus Used...
As a follow-up to the Malibu that didn’t look like a typical Malibu, here’s a Chevelle that sure looks like a Malibu, but it’s not. It’s a quite rare low-end 1968 Chevelle 300 Deluxe hardtop coupe....
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