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1957 Chevrolet – America’s Car
1957 Chevrolet: America’s Car. American carmakers served up a dizzying array of beautiful, powerful, intriguing and memorable automobiles in the 1950s, one reason that cars of this period remain popular with collectors. You could drive yourself crazy and trigger[...]
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Classic Chrysler Town and Country
Chrysler Town & Country: What Luxury Once Was Watching TV commercials for today’s luxury cars, you might begin to wonder, “What’s luxurious about a car doing power-slides over desert trails?” In car enthusiast vernacular, it’s called “hooning.” Somehow, that’s supposed[...]
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Austin-Healey 3000
Austin-Healey 3000: Rule Britannia! In a quest to define the quintessential postwar British roadster, the Austin-Healey 3000 is surely a top contender. Built from 1959 until the end of 1967, this swanky six-cylinder sports car pulled the 1950s about as[...]
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2006-2010 BMW E60 M5
BMW E60 M5: If Ferrari Built a Sedan (E60 M5 - photo courtesy OSX) The latest BMW M5 belts out 600 horsepower and a massive 553 lb-ft of torque from its twin-turbo 4.4-liter V-8. And yet, many BMW M aficionados[...]
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1995-1998 Porsche 993 Last of the Air-Cooled 911 series
It will be 20 years this August that Apple introduced its first iMac, which began a dramatic reversal of fortunes for the then-struggling computer maker. Around the same time, the last air-cooled Porsche 911 models were leaving the building. Two[...]
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Ferrari 400i A Ferrari V12 for Under $100k
The 1988 hit film “Rainman” opens with gray market importer Charlie Babbitt (Tom Cruise) walking around a California shipping dock inspecting a quartet of Lamborghini Countachs that he hopes to sell to waiting customers. But how many moviegoers would have[...]
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1961-1964 Cadillac Series 62 Bridging Generations
A Cadillac print ad from 1964 touted the value of design continuity on its cars’ resale value. The photo showcased the ’64 model, with the 1960-1963 versions in the background. This was steadiness. This was predictability. Cadillac customers wanted that.[...]
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Triumph TR6 – Last of Its Breed
If all the 1969-1976 Triumph TR6 had going for it was one of the automotive world’s most alluring six-cylinder exhaust notes, that might be enough to justify purchase. Fortunately, there’s much more to love about one of the last classic[...]