A Good Time to Buy a Classic Car?
People who've longed to buy a classic car may be thinking now is a great time to go shopping for one.
Maybe.
But classic cars are not like new cars or even used...
Doomed: Chevy Cosworth Vega (1975-1976)
It worked better for Pontiac.
The now-iconic black and gold paint scheme made famous by the ’77 Trans-Am that Burt Reynolds drove into automotive history in Smokey and the Bandit failed to...
Buying a Used Performance Car
Buying a used car is one thing. Buying a used performance car is an additional thing.
You should assume that the car has been run hard. It's what people buy performance cars...
How it Survived
As people who know me already know, I own a bright orange - technically, Carousel Red - 1976 Trans-Am. I have owned it for a long time - some 30 years....
The Beauty of the Burnout
One thing I really like about old muscle cars is the freedom to do a burnout without having to beg a computer for permission first.
I got to talking about that the...
Doomed: Li’l Red Express, 1978-1979
High-performance trucks are back - but they aren't new.
One of the first of the breed dates back to the height of the Disco era, 1978 - when high-performance cars had all-but-ceased-to-exist,...
Elevators and EeeeeVeeeeeees
EeeeeeVeeees - especially Teslas - are very quick. But the experience is detached and anodyne. It quickly gets old. Or rather, nothing particularly exciting.
The best parallel example I can summon is...
Modularity
It's easy enough to make fun of the performance-plucked cars of the mid-late '70s, some of which - including this writer's '76 Pontiac Trans-Am - came with huge V8 engines that,...
Moving Along ….
Time passes, things change. Have you noticed that while most new cars are much harder to get into without a key, once you're in - the glovebox is easy to access?
Because...
A Glance in the Rearview . . .
Here's a story for those under 40 - of what it was like to be seventeen 40 years ago.
We got our licenses at sixteen. Not a restricted license. A license just...