A year after Plymouth introduced the GTX as an upscale muscle car, they rolled out the Road Runner as a performance car for the budget-minded. With its gimmicky name and “beep beep” horn, the car sold like hotcakes until… more»
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30 Acres of Rusty Gold in Georgia!
Old Car City USA in White, Georgia professes to be the world’s largest known classic car junkyard. Across more than thirty acres, mostly wilderness, thousands of largely American-made cars have come to their final resting place here over the… more»
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Upscale Muscle Car Project: 1970 Plymouth GTX
The GTX debuted in 1967 as an upscale muscle car based on the mid-size Plymouth Belvedere. It beat the Road Runner to market by a year but was outsold by the latter because of its appeal to a more… more»
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Slant-Six Survivor: 1971 Plymouth Duster
The Plymouth Valiant was a great economy car in the 1960s, but sporty was not one of the words you would use to describe it. Enter the Duster in 1970 with a new fastback body from the cowl back…. more»
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’57 Belaro! 1999 Chevrolet Camaro
What do you get when you cross a fourth-generation Chevy Camaro with a 1957 Chevy fiberglass kit from Easy Rods? A Belaro, of course! This is not one of the first these cars we’ve seen, as our own Scotty… more»
SS 396 Clone Project: 1969 Chevrolet Camaro
From all indications, this 1969 Chevy was an ordinary Camaro when it left the factory. But the seller’s more recent plan for the car was to create a Super Sport or SS 396 clone. Some of that work has… more»
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1969 Pontiac GTO “The Judge” Project
By 1969, Pontiac’s muscle car, the GTO, was in its sixth year of production. Looking to generate even further interest in the machine, Pontiac introduced “The Judge” option, taking marketing advantage of the skit with Sammy Davis, Jr. on… more»
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Petty Blue Project: 1972 Dodge Charger SE
Third-generation Dodge Chargers (1971-74) took on “fuselage” styling like other cars in the Chrysler fold. They also began to feel the woes of detuning to run on unleaded fuel and other emissions-savings initiatives. By 1972, all the really big… more»
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Field Find Project: 1965 Ford Mustang Fastback
The Mustang was a sales bonanza from the moment it debuted in the Spring of 1964. These early cars are sometimes referred to as 1964 ½ models, but everything built through the Summer of 1965 was all titled as… more»
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Wide-Track Project: 1962 Pontiac Bonneville Convertible
For most of the second half of the 20th Century, the Pontiac Bonneville had a commanding presence amongst Detroit iron. They were big, bold, luxurious, and powerful cars that helped Pontiac claim third place in sales in the 1960s…. more»
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Kansas Barn Find: 1939 Plymouth
The Plymouth brand was developed by Chrysler in 1928 to represent them in the “low-priced” market dominated at the time by Chevrolet and Ford. The timing was fortuitous as the presence of Plymouth helped Chrysler survive the Great Depression… more»
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Muscle Car Project: 1971 Chevrolet Chevelle SS
As the muscle car movement was changing in the early 1970s, so was the Chevelle Super Sport. Rather than a 396 or 454 being the typical engine under the hood by 1971, you could get any optional V8 and… more»
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DeLorean 428 V8! 1978 Pontiac Firebird Trans Am
This low-mileage Trans Am was built at the height of “Trans Am” mania, i.e., the year after the original Smokey and the Bandit movie made the car a star. This one is special because when it was brand new,… more»
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Just 360 Miles! 2005 Ford Mustang GT
The fifth generation of the venerable Ford Mustang began in 2005 and had a retro look as a nod to the original from 40 years earlier. The GT was a potent model and accounted for nearly 30% of production… more»
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Hand-Built! 1964 Volkswagen Sports Car
This likely is a one-of-a-kind kit-type car, built in the 1960s on a VW chassis. It’s been in storage for more than four decades and is not in running condition. The steel body is custom-made so if you had… more»
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413 Wedge V8: 1959 Chrysler New Yorker
After Chrysler spun off the Imperial as its own make and division in 1955, the New Yorker would become the top model in their line-up. That included the 1959 editions, wearing “Forward Look” styling that had originated on Chrysler… more»
