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Vintage Road Test Comparison: 1969 Dodge Monaco 440 & Plymouth Fury III 383 Convertible — Big Power And Two Body Styles
Posted on March 17, 2024 | 14 CommentsToday’s Car Life vintage review belongs to a June 1969 comparison of what the magazine termed ‘Powercars’. Not exactly a term that caught on, but in their words, full-size vehicles […] -
Vintage Car And Driver’s New Cars For ’71 Issue: AMC Javelin, Oldsmobile Toronado, Plymouth Road Runner – Early Impressions and Wrong Signals, Part 2
Posted on March 9, 2024 | 19 CommentsSome time ago we featured the first half of Car And Driver’s New Cars of ’71 issue. As mentioned in that installment, much was changing in the automotive world as […] -
Road & Track Vintage Review: Dodge Colt GT 2-Liter – Torqueflite For The Win
Posted on February 15, 2024 | 44 Comments(First posted 2/15/2018 Another one from the R&T 1975 Buyer’s Guide, which are really just reprints from 1974 issues) There wasn’t a whole lot to distinguish this Dodge […] -
Road & Track 1975 Buyer’s Guide – Imports and Domestic Compacts
Posted on February 5, 2024 | 54 Comments(first posted 2/5/2018) Among the treasure trove of hundreds of vintage R&T magazines a CC reader sent me about a year ago or so is this Buyer’s Guide from 1975. […] -
Vintage Review: 1969 Chrysler 300 – Car Life’s Best Prestige Car; Luxury And Performance
Posted on August 24, 2023 | 24 CommentsIn September 1969 Car Life magazine released its ‘Best Of’ issue, a title awarded by market segment and vehicle class. In the ‘Prestige Car’ category, CL declared the Chrysler 300 […] -
Vintage Car And Driver: Plymouth Duster 318 vs 340 – Getting Your Duster Just How You Wanted It, In 1972
Posted on June 25, 2023 | 94 CommentsToday’s vintage article details the many ways to order your Plymouth Duster, back in Sept. ’72. A whole array of options were available, and it takes Car And Driver quite […] -
Vintage Road Test: 1971 Dodge Demon 340 – Road Test Magazine Takes A Real Devil For A Spin
Posted on April 22, 2022 | 54 Comments(first posted 4/22/2016) In spite of the fiendish (and controversial) name, most Dodge Demons were quite benign machines, as epitomized by this “little old lady from Pasadena” survivor, likely […] -
Curbside Classic: 1976(ish) Dodge Tradesman – All Bound For Mu Mu Land
Posted on June 18, 2021 | 43 CommentsVans like this, in condition like this, are a thing of the distant past. -
Vintage Review: Plymouth Volare, a “Solid Set of Wheels”
Posted on March 24, 2020 | 69 Comments(first posted 4/10/2014) How Detroit was lost. Those four words could serve as a current subtitle to this review that appeared 38 years ago in the April 1976 issue […]