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Classic Cars

Muscle cars and trucks. View the entire archive.

Doomed: Chevy SSR, 2003-2006

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When muscle cars were legislated off the roads, muscle trucks became a kind of end-run alternative. A way to offer the same basic gear in a form that did not have...

Best Car Commercials Ever

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If you can't get the tune out of your head, does that mean you'll end up buying the car? Rich, corinthian leather will only take you so far. Here are some of...

The Old Car Hobby… Literally

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Old car shows are getting old. Not just the cars, either. I've been going to car shows since I was a teenager in the '80s and what's changed is that now there are...

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...

Numbers vs. Names

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New cars lack a certain something. But what is that something? What's changed that's made them less emotionally involving - and more appliance-like? Herewith some thoughts along those lines: * Liters vs. cubic inches...

Maintenance 101: Old Car Oil Change

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Everything changes - even oil changes. Not necessarily the procedure. But the oil you use. Or rather, ought to be using. If you happen to own an older vehicle. Specifically, a vehicle with an...

GM’s Cobblepot: The 1971-1977 Chevy Vega

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In the popular TV series, Gotham (it's a prequel to the Batman story) there's an episode called "Everyone Has His Cobblepot" - a reference to something embarrassing in one's past. The Chevy...

To Update Or Not to Update?

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As modern cars pass the event horizon of cost and complexity (and so, hassle) it's tempting to go retro and buy an older car - one without computers, black boxes, touchscreen inputs...

Great Engines of Yesterday

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Modern car engines are hard to fault... objectively. They start immediately - even when it's 15 degrees out. They rarely stall out - leaving you dead in the water in the...

The Last Thunderbird

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All of us know - or have heard about - the apparently healthy, successful person who one day just drops dead unexpectedly. In a way, this is the story of the Thunderbird....
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