Although The Trammps’ hit “Disco Inferno” wouldn’t drop until Dec. 28, 1976, the fire was already burning by 1975: Disco and funk were warring with easy listening and classic […]
Dressed in bright orange (“Carousel Red”) and festooned with decals; offering flashy looks, high performance, and a lengthy list of gimmicks; and bearing a name inspired by a popular […]
In concocting ideas for posts, I spend a lot of time looking for suitable photos, sometimes shelving a promising idea because I can’t find any. On the other hand, […]
Although the launch of the second-generation Chevrolet Camaro was delayed until the middle of the 1970 model year, it arrived in late February with a splash, earning rave reviews […]
Dodge was decidedly late to the pony car party, waiting more than five years to join the fray with the new E-body Dodge Challenger. The Challenger was just as […]
In 1965, Cadillac replaced its long-running Series 62 line with the new entry-level Calais, which could theoretically put you in a new Cadillac for around $5,000 — only a little […]
I was recently perusing the road test summary from the July 1969 issue of Car Life magazine, and it occurred to me that it summarized performance figures for some […]
If there was one cardinal rule for Dodge Division in the 1960s, it was, “Whatever Plymouth had, Dodge dealers wanted.” Not long after Plymouth introduced the Road Runner, a […]
With 1,288,557 cars sold in just two and a half model years, the original Ford Mustang was the definition of a mass-market success. Car Life magazine compared it to […]
Paul recently presented a multipart survey of the many four-door hardtop models U.S. automakers offered in the 1950s and 1960s. But, how popular were these models in their day? […]
Today, the Cadillac Eldorado is best-remembered as Cadillac’s FWD personal luxury coupe, but before that, it was primarily a flashy RWD convertible — the top of the Cadillac line, […]
In 1966, Chrysler-Plymouth tried to join the lucrative budget luxury segment established by the Ford LTD with a well-trimmed new full-size model called the Plymouth VIP. The VIP was […]
Chevrolet advertised the 1970 Chevrolet Monte Carlo as a “gentleman’s car,” a budget-priced personal luxury coupe laden with styling cues reminiscent of more upscale rivals. Yet, it was also […]
In the early 1960s, GM’s Oldsmobile and Pontiac divisions responded to the burgeoning personal luxury market with re-trimmed B-body hardtops, the Oldsmobile Starfire and Pontiac Grand Prix. Both were restyled […]
It’s an article of faith among Lincoln fans that what the early 1960s Continental lacked in sales volume against Cadillac, it made up in prestige. However, even Lincoln-Mercury management didn’t […]