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Car Show Classic Archive
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1976 Oldsmobile Cutlass S 442 – Subtle Muscle In The Cutlass-Peak Era
Posted on October 18, 2025 | 2 CommentsRight around the peak of Cutlass-mania in the 1970s, this is what an Oldsmobile 442 looked like. Based on the Cutlass S, it was only a shadow of its former […] -
1947 Lincoln Sedan: “Nothing Could Be Finer,” Except Maybe A Cadillac
Posted on October 14, 2025 | 9 CommentsEdsel Ford was truly a remarkable man. With a personality completely unlike his tempestuous father’s, he was able to assert himself in Ford Motor Company despite his father’s conscious or […] -
Lead East Car Show Memories: Reliving The ’50s From 1986 to 2000
Posted on October 12, 2025 | 11 CommentsThat’s LEAD, baby—rhymes with “head,” as in the metal customizers and body work professionals use to re-sculpture car bodies or repair rust. I’ll never forget the day I first discovered […] -
Alfa Romeo Club Meet at Blackhawk Auto Museum
Posted on October 10, 2025 | 13 CommentsThis past June 7th, the Alfa Romeo Club held a small car show outside the Blackhawk Auto Museum, which I took the opportunity to go see. I expected fun cars, […] -
1967 Chevrolet Impala Station Wagon: Another Pleasant Valley Sunday
Posted on October 9, 2025 | 44 CommentsThe Monkees’ famous single “Pleasant Valley Sunday” made it all the way to number three on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1967 on the strengths of its up-tempo beat and […] -
Car Show Finds: Would You Rather Have A Restored Or An Untouched 1928 Pontiac 6-28 Sport Landau Sedan?
Posted on September 22, 2025 | 17 CommentsI have a good friend at work who is about fifteen years younger than I am, and he regularly asks me and another work friend outlandish “would you rather?” questions. […] -
Car Show Classic: 1936 MG PB Airline Coupé – Economy Plush
Posted on September 19, 2025 | 14 CommentsStreamlining did not come naturally to most UK carmakers. The square shapes of the ‘20s had been ideal for British designers’ propensity to fashion quite staid and narrow machines. But […] -
Car Show Classic: 1933 Alfa Romeo 8C 2600 Monza – Chequered Black & White And Red All Over
Posted on September 15, 2025 | 5 CommentsRace cars in the ‘30s… Ah, those legendary Auto-Union 16-cyl. monsters and glorious Mercedes Silver Arrows… the striking blue Bugattis and Delahayes… the little green ERAs, repeatedly winning their 1500cc […] -
Car Show Classic: 1970 Renault 12 TL – Anti-Trailer Queen
Posted on September 13, 2025 | 27 CommentsThere were no straw hat wearing judges at the 2025 Renaultoloog Meeting & Market to methodically examine the surplus of patina -or whatever it was- on this 55 years old […] -
1982 Mustang-Chevy: Fox Body, Chevy Power – Identity Crisis
Posted on September 5, 2025 | 12 CommentsI was going to make this one a “CC Wordless Outtake”, but I couldn’t keep silent. Nope. I realize I write a lot about having grown up in Flint, Michigan, […] -
Car Show Classic: 1967 Pontiac Tempest — In A Sea Of GTOs, Such Stuff As Dreams Are Made On
Posted on September 2, 2025 | 15 CommentsAlthough a 1969 GTO convertible ignited my love for General Motors products at the tender age of 20 or 21, GTOs mostly escape my notice anymore. In my sleepy little […] -
Car Show Classics: 1973 Opel Kadett B And 1970 Opel Rekord C – Two Beige Two-Door Sedans
Posted on August 26, 2025 | 32 Comments(first posted 9/10/2017) Kadett, Ascona, Rekord, Commodore, Admiral, Diplomat. That was Opel’s sedan-ladder in the seventies, a variety unmatched by any other automaker on the European market. […] -
Car Show Finds: 1968 Pontiac Tempest & 1969 Pontiac LeMans – Muscle Car Flair For The Masses
Posted on August 21, 2025 | 6 CommentsCarl Jung, the famous psychologist, conceived the idea of the collective unconscious, and in doing so, he explained that there were archetypes and images that humans innately understood from birth. […] -
Car Show Classic: 1978 Alfa Romeo 2300 Rio – Doing A World Car, The Alfa Romeo Way
Posted on August 18, 2025 | 39 Comments(first posted 8/19/2019) You probably know the feeling. Wandering through a car show field, you glimpse a familiar but rarely seen profile. Your antennae react and your brain […] -
1960 Jensen 541R: They Weren’t All Interceptors, You Know – Little Known, Fantastic British Coupe
Posted on August 18, 2025 | 17 CommentsOne of the clues in today’s New York Times “The Mini” is, “There are roughly ten million billion (10^16) of these in a grain of salt.” (Of course, the answer is “atoms.”) […]