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Classic Cars

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The Cost of a Time Machine

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The good news first. You can legally buy a brand-new car without a single air bag or any of the saaaaaaaaafety equipment mandated by the...

How Uncle Killed Pontiac

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The French philosopher-economist Frederic Bastiat wrote about the unseen repercussions of government interfering with the market's natural progressions. In other words, what might have...

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...

Stuff That’s Gone Away

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I guess everyone gets to that point in life where they start to say,  "I remember when... . " Here's some from me: * Economy...

The $33,000 Chevette

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Would you pay $33,000 for a 1987 Chevy Chevette? Apparently, someone just did. It's got low miles - just 47 - so it's basically a...

Why Muscle Cars – The Original Ones – Still Rule

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A new V-6 Mustang or Camaro gives you about 100 more hp than the V-8 in my Trans-Am put out when it left the...

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...

In the rearview mirror: 1980-’81 Turbo Trans Am

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Let's dial back the clock a quarter century and return to the wee hours of the Reagan Era, when Pontiac made a desperate, last-ditch...

Ode to the Carburetor

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Once upon a time, there was a simple mechanical device that fed fuel to your car's engine. It had no electrical hook-ups, was not...

Premature vs. “Planned” Obsolescence

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You may have heard the term, planned obsolescence. It refers to the policy of General Motors (and others) back in the '50s and '60s...
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