1986-1993 Cadillac Allante: They Got it Right … Too Late
It began with high hopes - and an audacious plan. Unfortunately, it belly-flopped badly... .
By the mid-1980s, Cadillac was still the "standard of the...
Third Tier Classics (Get ‘Em While You Still Can)
Some of you may have caught my recent article about the almost muscle cars of the mid-late 1970s (see here, if not). Cars like...
The Almost Muscle Car: Chevy Monza, 1975-1980
The '70s (and early '80s) were Weird Years for the car industry. The muscle car era of the '60s was fading fast, but the...
Blame Nixon
The American automobile industry has loved Uncle long time now. But it was not always so - at least, not to the extent we've...
Retro Review: 1983-1984 Hurst Olds and 1985–1988 442
Oldsmobile had a long and distinguished history—and suffered a slow, painful death.
The process of mortification began in the early 1980s, when General Motors gutted...
Classic Car Pros… and Cons
It's fun to own a "classic" (read, pre-modern) car. It can also be a hassle. Before you dive in, it's a good idea to...
How Uncle Killed Pontiac
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...
The Great Pumpkin
Today I took the Great Pumpkin out for a long-neglected drive.
My 1976 Trans-Am. Carousel Red (orange, really; same paint code used in 1969 on...
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...
To Harass And Impose
It was a beautiful August Saturday night; high 70s, low humidity and mostly sunny. A local restaurant on the main strip of our town...