The muscle car market was changing, so in 1972 Dodge started doing some consolidating. The Charger R/T, Super Bee and Charger 500 were replaced by the single Rallye, a Charger option package. The Rallye was intended to target the… more»
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Supercharged 1964 Studebaker Avanti R2!
The Avanti was in production a mere 18 months, too little and too late to save Studebaker from the Grim Reaper. It was marketed as “America’s only four-passenger high-performance personal car.” The supercharged version of the Avanti was the… more»
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Final Year: 1982 Lancia Beta Zagato
Lancia was an Italian automaker whose first car came out in 1909. They became part of Fiat in 1969 with only one Lancia product still in production today. Lancia never had a big presence in the US, with its… more»
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Luxurious Barn Find: 1974 Cadillac Coupe De Ville
The fourth generation of the De Ville series of the Cadillac, 1971 through 1976, would be the biggest ones yet and ultimately the last hurrah for the Detroit land yachts. The energy crisis of 1973 had buyers flocking to… more»
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Pair of 1950s Volkswagen Beetles
The so-called “people’s car,” the Beetle was built between 1938 and 2003, with millions of copies produced and consumed world-wide. It was officially known as the Volkswagen Type 1, informally in German the Käfer (meaning “beetle”) and the Bug… more»
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Rare Leather Option: 1968 Pontiac Firebird Convertible
Both Chevrolet and Pontiac countered the Ford Mustang in 1967 with the Camaro and Firebird, respectively. As the Cougar would be the Mustang’s upscale companion, the Firebird will fill that role at General Motors. Just under 17,000 Firebird convertibles… more»
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Rare Woodie: 1949 DeSoto Deluxe Station Wagon
Wood-bodied station wagons were on their way out by the end of the 1940s. They were expensive to build relative to the number that were sold. Steel-bodied wagons were starting to materialize and would be the way to go… more»
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Barn Find Roller: 1964 Pontiac GTO
The GTO. Gas, Tires & Oil. GOAT. The car that’s credited with starting the mid-1960s mid-size muscle car movement. While GTO co-father John DeLorean thought that was an untapped market for a car like this, internal GM pundits thought… more»
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One Owner: 58k Mile 1977 Oldsmobile Cutlass Supreme
The Cutlass Supreme was one of the best-selling U.S. nameplates during its long production run and was #1 in 1976 and several more times thereafter. The third generation Cutlass models (1973-77) employed General Motors’ Colonnade styling which eliminated framed… more»
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13k Mile Barn Find: 1960 Chrysler New Yorker
The “Forward Look” Chryslers of the late 1950s were followed up by the unibody Chryslers of the 1960s. They still had their tailfins (for a while) and still looked different than what most of Detroit was making, but they… more»
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Unfortunate Name: 1936 Studebaker Dictator
The Dictator was an entry-level automobile built by Studebaker from 1928-37. They began renaming all their cars in the late 1920s and the powers-that-be thought that Dictator would be a good name for a car (it replaced the Standard… more»
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Stored 38 Years: 1964 Lincoln Continental
The fourth generation of the Lincoln Continental enjoyed a lengthy run from 1961-69. As a direct competitor to Lincoln, the luxurious Continental was offered in sedan and convertible body styles, both with the famous (or infamous) suicide doors. More… more»
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Rare 426 Hemi Equipped 1971 Plymouth Road Runner!
1971 marked the dawn of the second generation of the Plymouth Road Runner. The muscle car heyday of the late 1960s was already starting to wear thin, as sales of the Road Runner dropped 65 percent in spite of… more»
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Supercharged! 1957 Studebaker Golden Hawk
The Golden Hawk was part of the Hawk series of cars produced by Studebaker in the 1950s/1960s. They only enjoyed a three-year production run (1956-58), with the last two having supercharged engines under the hood. Unlike some of the… more»
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Never A Taxi: 1975 Checker Marathon
Anyone who’s ever ridden in the back of a Checker cab probably remembers how much legroom there was. Most of the Marathon workhorses that were built over a 22-year period went toward fleet use, most notably taxi services. By… more»
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Cheap Wheels? 1990 Hyundai Excel GS
There was a lot of noise in the mid-1980s when Hyundai brought their first car into the U.S., the Excel. The subcompact was promoted as being the least expensive new car you could buy in 1986 at $4,995. I… more»
