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Classic Cars

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Classic Cars and Classic Owners

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Are old cars for old people? It seems to be so - if you go by what one typically sees at an old car show. The owners are mostly at least as...

Elevators and EeeeeVeeeeeees

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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...

Doomed: Honda S2000 (1999-2009 RIP)

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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...

The Weirdmobile

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One of there reasons to go to an old car show isn't so much because the cars are ancient but because they are weird - relative to the same, as they...

Modularity

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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,...

Reader Question: S10 MAP Sensor Debacle?

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Here's the latest reader question,along with my reply!  BaDnOn writes: I've had a problem for some time that I need to get back to correcting at some point. I can't pass the...

In the Rearview: AMC’s Almost Corvette . . .

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Two cars have vied with the Corvette for the title, America’s sports car. You probably know about the Thunderbird. You may not know about the AMX. It came along much later and wasn't...

Closing the Antique Vehicle “Loophole”

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One way to save a lot of money - and avoid a lot of hassle - is to opt out of paying the annual "registration" fees the governments of most states...

Blue Haze: Mazda RX8 (2001-2011)

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Some of the greatest ideas never get fleshed out and remain... great ideas. Mazda's rotary engine, for instance. And the car that was built around it. The RX8. Well, it began with the RX-7...

Things You Can’t Do in a New Car

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New cars can do all kinds of things - even drive themselves. But there were all kinds of things you could do in the cars of the past that you can’t...
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