Twice-Plus As Much
Thirty years ago, when I was young guy in his 20s, I bought the Great Pumpkin - my 1976 Trans Am - for $5,400. It seemed like a lot of money...
The First is Last . . . Again
In about two years from now, the Ford Mustang will be the last new car of its type still on the market - a fitting thing, given it was the first...
Insurance That Isn’t An Offer You Should Refuse
There is a form of vehicle insurance that’s not a moral outrage - because you’re not forced to buy it.
Classic car insurance.
Ordinary car insurance (the kind you're forced to buy) is...
What Corvette Was – and Should Be, Again . . .
A 2023 Corvette costs almost twice as much - in real terms - as a 1969 Corvette cost. The latter listed for $4,781 when it was new - a sum equivalent...
The Old Trans-Am vs. The New Camaro
I've owned my '76 Trans-Am for more than 20 years. It used to be an incandescent gas hog relative to the new cars. It's not anymore.
I have driven several during the...
Ode to the Air Cooled
No new cars - and just a dwindling handful of new motorcycles - have engines that rely on the air to cool them.
Technically, it's airflow - which washes over the exterior...
Manual Transmissions: Tomorrow’s 8-Tracks?
There are two things pushing the manual transmission off the stage - or at least, off to the sidelines:
First, there is government pressure - lots of it - that's got the...
The Last Pontiac V8
GM's Pontiac division ceased to be some 13 years ago. Because by that time, it had become a marketing facade for other GM vehicles, re-selling Chevys and Buicks that were largely...
The Rear Wheel Drive Resurgence
Two things once defined American cars.
They were almost always rear-wheel-drive - even the economy cars - and they sometimes could be had with V8 engines. Or at least they fit.
The Pontiac Tempest...
1948 Tucker Torpedo
Preston Tucker has been described as a hopelessly naive genius, a con man . . . or some combination of both.
The evidence suggests he genuinely wanted to build cars - not filch people's...