Who Misses Oldsmobile?
Does anyone miss Oldsmobile? Not what Oldsmobile was in its heyday back in the '50s, '60s and '70s - the era of the Rocket 88 - but what it had become...
Retro-review: 1964 Ford Mustang
Like Jed Clampett, who inadvertently struck oil while he was out huntin' 'coon, Ford's General Manager Lee Iacocca probably didn't fully realize just what he was about to tap into with...
Stu Monster and the summer of ’86
It was the summer of 1986 - and muscle was cheap.
My friend since elementary school, Stuart - whom we all called Stu Monster in tribute to his exploits with beer...
What Would Satan Drive?
Here are some candidates:
* Bugatti Veyron -
Old Scratch certainly has the scratch necessary to acquire a seven figure chariot of hellfire like the $1.7 million, 16-cylinder, 1,000-horsepower Bugatti super supercar. And...
Remember These?
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. It usually comes...
The … Thing!
The Bible says the poor are blessed in spirit - but they sure get short-changed when it comes to transportation. The Jeep-like VW Type 181 “Thing" - sold here for only...
Party Time! Excellent! 1975–1980 AMC Pacer
Wayne’s World immortalized the AMC Pacer, a car which defined the 1970s even more than a Bee Gees 8-track, the “Farrah” hairstyle, or the leisure suit. In fact, wearing a leisure...
The Stinker: 1978–1985 Cadillac Seville Diesel
As the second energy crisis in a decade kidney-punched an inflation-addled nation, several automakers began to eye the diesel engine as a way to attract customers interested in high-mileage vehicles. The...
1978–1990 Dodge Omni (Oh Lawsee!)
It became a depressing tendency in the late 1970s to bestow optimistic-sounding names on increasingly scrunched-down and browbeaten economy cars that were at best proletarian-geared “transportation modules” as enjoyable as day-old...
1983–1988 Hurst Olds/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 the formerly independent engineering departments...