Wide Stance?
My little pick-up truck - with a 2.4 liter four cylinder engine - has exactly the same size wheels and tires (225/70R-15) as the ones my 1976 Pontiac Trans Am -...
The Weirdmobile
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...
What We’ve Gained . . and Lost Along the Way
When every new car comes standard with air conditioning - and an LCD touchscreen - such things become given things.
It becomes harder to make a case for more expensive things.
Why buy...
Gas Guzzling . . . Then and Now
I took my '76 Trans Am out yesterday; I needed a reboot - and it needed exercise. Drove the orange-painted, screaming chickened "gas guzzler" around for about an hour, taking my...
A Price Well Worth Paying
How much would you pay to be able to buy and drive a brand-new 1995 Honda Accord EX? Does $24k sound reasonable? Vern Eide Honda in Sioux Falls, South Dakota had...
Doomed: Mitsubishi 3000 GT (1990-2000)
Did you know the Japanese built a GTO?
It wasn't in 1964 - and it didn't have had three deuces and a four-speed. Or a 389. Instead, it had state-of-art technology, including...
Pontiac is Racist
The Washington Redskins no longer play football; instead a "football team" from "Washington" does.
That, at least, is what the ex-Redskins were called until someone came up with "Commanders" - a name...
Why Manuals Matter
The manual transmission has become something of a rarity, even in vehicles that used to commonly come standard - play on words intended - with them, such as economy cars, sports...
Doomed: Jaguar X-Type 2002-2011
American car companies - GM and Ford especially - get heckled a lot and justly for repackaging their economy cars and trying to sell the lipstick-on-a-pig’d result as luxury cars. Examples...
A Lift That Works
If you like to work on cars you probably hate crawling around underneath one, trying to get at things you can't easily reach - or even see. This gets old after...