Cars-On-Line’s Classic Car Newsletter is Your No. 1 Source for Classic Car News On the Oldsmobile muscle car food chain there is no car more rare than a 1969 Hurst/Olds with the W-45 package. First of all, only 906 Hurst/Olds were produced in 1969. The ’69 version stands apart because of the Cameo White paint…
Cars-On-Line’s Classic Car Newsletter is Your No. 1 Source for Classic Car News Here is a classic Chevy convertible that has as much notoriety and provenance as any we’ve come across in the last decade. First of all, it was owned by rock legend Jim Peterik, the founder of the rock band Survivor. It was…
Cars-On-Line’s Classic Car Newsletter is Your No. 1 Source for Classic Car News Out of all the C1 first generation Corvettes produced the one that collectors are most interested in is the 1957 Corvette Fuelie Convertible. Well restored examples bring big money. After all, only 1,040 fuelie Corvettes were produced in ’57. But hundreds of…
Cars-On-Line’s Classic Car Newsletter is Your No. 1 Source for Classic Car News One of the most anticipated sales of the summer will be coming up at the GAA Classic Summer Auction in Greensboro, North Carolina next month. An F8 Dark Green 1969 Dodge Daytona Charger with a white wing will cross the auction floor…
Cars-On-Line’s Classic Car Newsletter is Your No. 1 Source for Classic Car News The art of custom design is in preserving the original form and enhancing it, without taking away its aesthetic appeal. That’s what is so interesting about custom show cars. They take the original form of the car, smooth out the design and…
Cars-On-Line’s Classic Car Newsletter is Your No. 1 Source for Classic Car News Annoyed that all the big money for racing was being invested in the Ford Motor Company cars, Mercury engineers set out to “over achieve” in producing competition quality performance cars. While Mercury offered three model levels in 1963, at mid-year they came…
Cars-On-Line’s Classic Car Newsletter is Your No. 1 Source for Classic Car News Your average Joe Public new car buyer did not know about it … In fact, you could say Chevrolet was unaware of it … but certain dealers around the U.S. found a way to order a 427 Camaro right from the factory…
Cars-On-Line’s Classic Car Newsletter is Your No. 1 Source for Classic Car News As the muscle car era was drawing to a close, Pontiac was one of the holdout car companies clinging to the performance era with their Trans Am pony car. The last of the breed was the Pontiac Trans Am Super Duty 455.…
Cars-On-Line’s Classic Car Newsletter is Your No. 1 Source for Classic Car News When the Cadillac Eldorado Convertible was selected to set the pace for the 1973 Indianapolis 500 Championship Race, the engineers at Cadillac Motor Division knew they had some work to do. Their job was to prepare the massive 5,100-pound Eldorado to safely…
Cars-On-Line’s Classic Car Newsletter is Your No. 1 Source for Classic Car News By 1970 Mercury was emerging as the performance division of Ford-Lincoln-Mercury. A NASCAR aware Baby Boom generation was into aerodynamic cars with big block power. So Mercury set out to give them what they wanted. That turned out to be the Cyclone…