Classic Car Articles

AMC

Javelin
There was nothing to get anyone's blood boiling - nothing to set AMC apart and yet give it a piece of the rapidly burgeoning performance market, a market AMC was determined to crack

Buick

1963 Riviera
The blend of curves and angles and the overall lines make the 1963 Buick Riviera a landmark car

1966 Skylark
Buick did everything right with the 1966 Skylark. They gave it balanced handling and stump-pulling performance. They also priced themselves out of the market...

Cadillac

1949 Cadillac
Just looking at the lines of the 1949 Cadillac Coupe deVille Series 60 shows where innovation can take you.

1957 Cadillac
Planned as early as 1954, the 1957 Caddy was, at best, a vehicle that didn't really know what it wanted to be when it grew up.

1959 Cadillac
The 1959 Cadillac defined an era. When people think of the big-finned cars of the 1950s, it's either the Cadillac Eldorado or Model 62 Convertible that come to mind.

1964 Cadillac
The 1964 Caddy marked the end of an era that began in 1961 when the design team took a close look at the division and decided change was needed

Chevrolet

1953 Bel Air
Facing a revived Ford Motor Co. that was determined to sell everything that it had on its lots, in the pipeline and everywhere else, Chevy entered the 1953 sales year with a problem

1953 Corvette
When the first 300 'Vettes rolled off the line in 1953 they were driven by almost exclusively by General Motors execs

1955 Chevrolet
A new V8 engine and a great new look for 1955 made this year a landmark and exciting year for Chevrolet

1956 Chevrolet
Once again the family cars were split into 3 series. The One-Fifty, Two-Ten and the top of the line Bel Air

1956 Corvette
When the 1956 Chevy Corvette was unveiled, it was not just a tweaked 1955; it was an entirely new and vastly improved vehicle

1957 Chevrolet
1957 saw a facelift, more horsepower and tailfins for the 'Sweet, Smooth and Sassy' Chevrolet

1958 Impala Bel Air
The 1958 Impala Bel Air was the right car at the right time. The top-of-the-line, it featured new front end and rear end styling and was longer, lower and wider than its predecessors

1960 Impala
The year 1960 was a big one for the Chevrolet Impala. Not only was it the king of the mid-priced vehicles, but it was received a major makeover aimed at toning it down more than a bit

1963 Corvette
After 10 years in production and with various tweaks, the first couple of Corvette generations were ready for a real change

1964 Impala SS
The real SS was the NASCAR version with its 427-cubic-inch V-8 that was actually intended for short-tracks and there was a slightly toned down version available for street use by police departments

1967 Camaro
Billed at the 'Mustang killer', the 1967 Chevrolet Camaro was Chevrolet Division's answer to the incredibly popular Ford Mustang

1967 Chevelle
The year 1967 was a watershed for Chevrolet. It was the year the Chevelle stepped back THE performance Chevy

1968 Camaro Z28
The Z28 was the baby of designer Vince Piggins whose mission was simple: get Chevrolet a performance image

1968 Corvette
The purists, of course, didn't like the larger size of the new Corvette, which sported a wider track and better handling, as well as 150 pounds more in curb weight

1970 Nova
The item you notice almost immediately 1970 Chevy Nova was its curving roofline that moved through the backlight and rear deck to finish up in a single panel that contained two oblong taillights

Chrysler

1957 New Yorker
For 1957, the year before a two-year recession gripped the industry, the $4,600 that Chrysler charged for the New Yorker was a lot of money

1960 Imperial Crown
According to the lore developed around the Imperial nameplate, 1960 was an iconic year in the life of the Chrysler Imperial Crown

Dodge

1958 Custom Royal (inc. D-500)
If there is one thing that Virgil Exner's departure from Chrysler Corp. left indelibly inked on the minds of Mopar aficionados it is that the 1958 Dodge Customer Royal and its D-500 variant were cars that couldn't make up their minds what they wanted to be when they grew up

1962 Dart
If you look at the 1962 Dodge Dart, it looks like the car that couldn't make up its mind up about what it wanted to be when it rolled off the assembly line

1965 Coronet
For Mopar, 1965 was a big year. It was the year that Chrysler Corp's Dodge Division put the 426 Street Wedge on I-70 and history was made as the intermediate-sized body became Mopar's campaign body

1969 Charger
Who would have thought that when the 1969 Dodge Charger R/T debuted that it would sell 85,000 vehicles and make motor vehicle history?

1970 Charger
Maybe it was the recession of 1970 or maybe it was a case of being at the wrong place at the wrong time, but, the Charger's sales plunge of more than 100 percent seemed to point to a problem with the industry

Ford

1955 Thunderbird
Although people like to believe apocryphal legends about things, the real reason the 1955 Thunderbird ever made its appearance, in the first place, was to give Ford a two-place competitor to the Chevy Corvette

1957 Fairlane 500
The Ford Fairlane 500, one of the last of the major Ford lines to keep its single headlight quite nicely fared into the front fender, was the epitome of the change that Ford had in attitude in the late 1950s

1957-1959 Skyliner
The New Ford Skyliner - The World's only Hide-Away Hardtop

1958-1960 Edsel
A Case of the Wrong Market at the Wrong Time

1959 Galaxie
That's why Ford came out with one of its more innovative models in 1959, the Galaxie (for whatever reason, they didn't spell Galaxy correctly, but it did make it stand out, didn't it?)

1961 Falcon
If there was a simple fact that came out of the unexpected sales success of the 1960/61 Ford Falcon it was that the American public was ready for a subcompact car

1965 Mustang
Only 18 short months had elapsed from production approval to the first Mustang rolling off the production line

1974 Mustang
The 1974 Mustang ended the in-house big platform/small platform brawl that had been going on since the 1967 introduction of the first big platform pony car

1975 Mustang
The 1975 Mustang arrived pretty much unchanged from 1974. The key was the return of the short-block V-8 to the lineup, although this change required extensive reworking of the model

Lincoln

1961 Continental
The 1961 Lincoln Division of the Ford Motor Co. and its Continental seem to have as many lives as a cat

1966 Continental
The 1966 Continental was a full five inches longer than its predecessor and it added standard rear seatbelts, disc brakes also made their appearance at the same time (drums at the rear) and safety flashers also made their appearance

Mercury

1949 Mercury
The 1949 Mercury, as typified by the Sports Coupe, was a very modern-looking car for that era. Rounded, the front end, which featured a minimal amount of chrome

1953 Mercury
The year 1953 was a landmark for the Mercury Division of the Ford Motor Co. As one would expect, they did continue to share basic body parts

1958 Park Lane
The largest Mercury every made, the Park Lane was to have been the crowning jewel in the Ford/Lincoln-Edsel-Mercury line

1960 Comet
The reason the Comet survived was simply because Lincoln-Mercury needed something to compete with the influx of imports that was starting to clobber the domestic industry

1969 Cougar
When Mercury dropped the 428 Cougar Cobra Jet into its 1969 lineup in April, this Ford Motors Division became a real contender in the muscle car wars that had been waging back and forth

Oldsmobile

1968-1971 Oldsmobile 442
How many times have you wondered how a car get its name? Well, believe it or not, carmakers maintain departments and databases that are devoted to just names

1972 Cutlass
Born as part of a design exercise in the late 1950s, as Detroit wrestled with its worst auto recession until recently, the Oldsmobile Cutlass – also known as an A-body – was actually part of the trial development that led to the release of the Chevrolet Corvair

Plymouth

1958 Fury
The 1958 Plymouth Fury had some of the nicest lines of the 1950s, big-finned era

1959 Fury
The Fury was the top-of-the-line and at the very pinnacle of that line was the Sport Fury

Pontiac

1958 Bonneville
Offered in two models, a convertible and hardtop sport coupe, the Bonneville used Cadillac's X-frame chassis as its basis

1967 Firebird
Pontiac relied on an interesting marketing strategy for the Firebird, five power levels. This Mustang fighter offered...

1964 GTO
That's the story of the 1964 Pontiac GTO. From those three letters sprang a song that is still the anthem of the muscle car era

1969 GTO
The GTO and Judge were the high-water mark of Pontiac performance and rather than design several body styles, the designers used power to set the lineup

Miscellaneous

Classic Car Finance
Maybe it's the times or maybe there's more money around than some of us think, but, believe it or not, you can finance a classic car

Stutz Black Hawk
For most car companies, you only get one chance – one chance to make good; one chance to spread a great reputation, one chance to build what you want