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1960s Archive
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Vintage Car Life Review: 1969 Ford Mustang 428 Mach 1 – Faster Than A Hemi
Posted on May 25, 2025 | 27 CommentsIt only took Ford until 1967 to stuff a big block engine in the Mustang, but the 390 Mustang didn’t offer the performance to make up for its clumsier […] -
Vintage Car Life Review: 1968 Plymouth Road Runner 383 – As Hot As It’s Been Made Out To Be?
Posted on May 23, 2025 | 33 CommentsAny automaker can create performance models by discreetly offering its most powerful engines in the smallest, cheapest cars that will accommodate them, but to put those models (and their […] -
Vintage Car Life Review: 1969 AMC-Hurst SC/Rambler – “By George, It Is A Fast Little Car”
Posted on May 22, 2025 | 31 CommentsAs automotive conversation pieces go, few speak louder than the 1969 AMC SC/Rambler, a preposterous limited-edition Rambler, concocted by American Motors and Hurst-Campbell, that offered giant-killing performance in a […] -
Vintage Car Life Review: 1969 Pontiac GTO Ram Air IV – Here Come “The Judge”
Posted on May 20, 2025 | 33 CommentsDressed 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 […] -
Vintage Car Life Review: 1969 Dodge Coronet Super Bee 383 – “Lives Up To Its Decals”
Posted on May 12, 2025 | 24 CommentsIf 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 […] -
Vintage Car Life Review: 1967 Ford Mustang 390 Fastback – All The Toppings, Not Enough Mustard
Posted on May 11, 2025 | 37 CommentsWith 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 […] -
Vintage M/T Review: 1965 Dodge Monaco – “As Rugged As It Is Rich”
Posted on April 28, 2025 | 26 CommentsFrom the late 1960s through the mid-1970s, the Dodge Monaco was the senior trim series of the full-size Dodge line, but the original 1965 Monaco was a hardtop-only personal […] -
Vintage Car Life Review: 1966 Ford Fairlane GTA – “Genuine Imitation Supercar”
Posted on April 26, 2025 | 28 CommentsBetween 1964 and 1966, Ford was so busy selling Mustangs that they scarcely seemed to notice that they were falling behind in other segments of the performance market. In […] -
Vintage Car Life Road Test: 1965 Pontiac Bonneville Vista – “Excellent Within Reason”
Posted on April 21, 2025 | 47 CommentsPontiac was riding high in 1965, but the division’s big flagship Bonneville was in danger of getting lost in the shuffle. In August 1965, Car Life tested a Bonneville […] -
Vintage Car Life Road Test: 1968 Pontiac GTO Ram Air – “It’s The Wildest”
Posted on April 14, 2025 | 24 CommentsEven before their test of a 1967 Ram Air GTO appeared in print, the editors of Car Life had gotten their hands on the redesigned 1968 Pontiac GTO. Their […] -
Vintage Car Life Review: 1968 Buick Riviera – “Lots Of Sound, Well-Styled Automobile”
Posted on April 12, 2025 | 18 CommentsThe Buick Riviera got a facelift for 1968, arguably a step in the wrong direction for one of GM’s most handsome cars. Car Life tested the new model in […] -
Vintage M/T Review: 1966 Lincoln Continental Coupe – “Lincoln’s Next Move Could Be Considered Obvious”
Posted on April 11, 2025 | 30 CommentsAlthough originally conceived as a Ford Thunderbird proposal, the 1960s Lincoln Continental was available only as a four-door pillared sedan and four-door convertible for the first five years of […] -
Vintage Car Life Review: 1967 Chevrolet Impala SS 427 – “A Family Car For A Swinging Family”
Posted on April 4, 2025 | 41 CommentsIn another CC post a while back, I charted the decline of the stripped-down full-size Chevrolet throughout the 1960s, as more and more buyers ordered V-8 engines and convenience […] -
Vintage Car Life Review: 1966 Ford Galaxie 7-Litre – “Tends To Confuse Bigger With Better”
Posted on April 2, 2025 | 34 CommentsBy the mid-1960s, performance-minded buyers’ interest was rapidly shifting away from big cars, but that didn’t stop Ford from giving the full-size sporty car theme one more shot with the […] -
Vintage Car Life Review: 1969 Pontiac Grand Prix Model SJ – “Tiger In Tuxedo”
Posted on March 31, 2025 | 35 CommentsIs this the grandest Grand Prix? If you could poll every living Pontiac fan, the 1969 GP would stand a good change of coming out on top for its […]