The Spider was the roadster version of the Alfa Romeo Giulia, built in Italy from 1962 to 1966. Some 9,000 of the 2-seat 1600-cc sports cars were assembled – with many of them landing in export markets like the… more»
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Corvette Rear Suspension! 1969 Chevrolet Camaro Project
The 1969 Chevy Camaro was the third and last year of the first generation of the pony car. They built a bundle of them (243,000) in part due to a 15-month production run as the all-new 1970s were delayed… more»
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Super Cobra Jet Garage Find: 1970 Ford Mustang
In 1970, Ford built nearly 200,000 Mustangs, a respectable number but a far cry from the peak of 600,000 in 1966. Of these, 41,000 were Mach 1s with the SportsRoof body style. But only 1,371 came with the Super… more»
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No Frills Transportation: 1966 Chevrolet Chevy II
The Chevy II/Nova was Chevrolet’s more conventional compact car of the 1960s (compared to the Corvair). After a successful launch in 1962, the cars were redesigned in 1966 and took on more of a square-ish look. They weren’t quite… more»
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Dad’s 4-Speed: 1963 Studebaker GT Hawk
The Gran Turismo (GT) Hawk was the final iteration of the sporty Hawk series that dated to the mid-1950s. It was also the most luxurious variant and competed with the Ford Thunderbird and Pontiac Grand Prix. Unfortunately, when Studebaker… more»
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V8 4-Speed! 1979 AMC Spirit AMX Project
The Spirit was the subcompact successor to the American Motors Gremlin. But it wasn’t an all-new car, just a new body on the old Gremlin chassis. The Spirit AMX was marketed as something of a performance car in the… more»
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Minimal Malibu: 1970 Chevrolet Chevelle
If you were on a budget in 1970, you may have bought a Chevelle just like this one. Malibu. Four doors. Six-cylinder engine. Automatic transmission. Two-tone paint. And that’s probably it. And relatively few of these body code 3569… more»
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Worth Fixing? 1970 Dodge Challenger Project
The original Dodge Challenger was only around for five years but is highly regarded today. When it arrived on the scene in 1970, it was the last pony car to enter the market (and one of the first to… more»
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What’s It Worth? 1971 Chevrolet Chevelle Malibu
The mid-size Chevy Chevelle got a modest facelift for the third year in a row in 1971, but it was still very much the car that had been redesigned in 1968. The biggest changes came in the form of… more»
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Former Race Car: 1969 AMC SC/Rambler
The SC/Rambler was a one-year muscle car built by American Motors in 1969. It was an American 2-door hardtop (with the compact in its last year) with an AMX powerplant (390 cubic inches). Only 1,512 were built and about… more»
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Daily Driver? 1975 Chevrolet Nova
The popular Chevy Nova compact was redesigned for the final time in 1975. That would be the beginning of the end of the rear-wheel-drive automobile that would be replaced in 1980 by the front-wheel-drive Citation (which would prove to… more»
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Major Price Drop: Cheap 1980 Triumph TR7
UPDATE 07/29/2024: Sometimes, persistence can be important when attempting to send a classic to a new home. Such is the case with this 1980 Triumph TR7. It represented very affordable drop-top motoring at $5,995 the first time we saw… more»
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Beefed Up 350 V8: 1970 Chevrolet Chevelle Malibu
The Chevelle was Chevrolet’s mid-size car in the 1960s and 1970s and the most popular version was the Malibu Sport Coupe. That makes the latter one of the most popular autos of the era to clone into an SS… more»
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LT-1 Restomod: 1964 Studebaker Avanti
The Studebaker Avanti was only built for two model years (1963 and 1964). The latter year was abbreviated when the company discontinued U.S. auto production around Christmas 1963. 4,640 Avanti’s were assembled in total, with only 800 or so… more»
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Numbers-Matching 400 V8: 1968 Oldsmobile 442
Except for Cadillac, every General Motors division got into the mid-size muscle car market at some point in 1964. Pontiac had the GTO, Chevy the Chevelle SS 396, Buick the GS 400, and Oldsmobile the 442 (also known as… more»
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Little Old Lady Owned: 1974 Ford Mustang II
After seeing years of declining sales, Ford reinvented the Mustang in 1974. The original car had gotten big and bulky, so the Mustang II was a subcompact using a 4-cylinder engine for the first time in the pony car’s… more»
