Muscle Cars: The Just For Men Hobby?
Perhaps you've noticed.
In the pages of muscle car enthusiast magazines and at car shows where muscle cars are the main attraction, the over-40 crowd is the largest demographic.
Twenty years ago, if...
Old Muscle Ruled . . . When New Cars Sucked
Muscle cars - the original-era muscle cars from the '60s and '70s - don't seem to be as popular now as they were when I was in high school and college...
Chrysalis Cars
The "real" muscle cars of the mid-late 1960s and early 1970s have been financial instruments since the '90s, if not earlier. Out of reach of the average person. Because the average...
The Motor Law
It’s strange to find myself an uncle, with a country place - and an Orange Barchetta out in the garage.
My 1976 Trans-Am.
It is a relic from the ”better, vanished time” Rush...
Trans Am Shaker Scoop Functional Conversion
I have just made my '76 Trans-Am's shaker scoop functional!
First, some background: While all second generation (1970-81) Trans-Ams (well, except the '80-'81 turbo models, which had an off-center hood blister) came with...
The Forgotten Last Muscle Car
It’s a strange but true thing that one of the last real muscle cars was - here it comes - a Buick.
The 1973-1974 Century GS Stage 1 455.
You have probably never...
Old School Fast
Fast is not just about the numbers. Does it feel fast to be traveling 500 miles per hour in an Airbus? It feels much faster in the open cockpit of a...
Doomed: Honda S2000 (1999-2009 RIP)
Race cars make terrible street cars - but every now and then, one will be offered for sale to the general public.
Usually, briefly.
L-88 Corvettes with lumpy solid lifter cams and three...
Reader Question: Second Gen Trans-Ams?
Here's the latest reader question, along withmy reply!
Huy writes: I was watching your old clip with the AMSOIL for the 2nd generation Trans-Am. I'm wanting to add a last car to...
Did you know the Japanese built a GTO?
It didn't have had three deuces and a four-speed - or a 389. Instead, it had state-of-art technology, including an available twin-turbocharged and intercooled DOHC V-6, viscous-coupled all-wheel-drive system, four-wheel-steering and...