Ferrari sports cars from the 1960’s are almost untouchable as values continue to go up. But now we are also seeing later model Ferrari offerings increase rapidly in price. Although they produced over 10,000 of the famous Testarossa, these Ferraris are now almost three times the price they were only a few years ago. The…
Take a look at our Pierce-Arrow Section on the Cars-On-Line.com website and you will notice how the American automobile was evolving. By 1935 the Pierce-Arrow was to become an elegant touring machine, long known for dependability. It was competing with Packard and Cadillac for the high end car buyer with expensive tastes as the art…
Although it was quite unintentional on Pontiac’s part, their introduction of the Trans Am in 1969 was the best kept secret in automotive history. Pontiac literally only ran two ads about the Trans Am prior to its debut. Most new car buyers never knew the Trans Am existed. After all, it did not premier until…
Few cars live in our imaginations like the Chi-Town Hustler, a nitro-fueled Funny Car that ran dragstrips all across the country from the 1960’s through the 1980’s. You may have seen it more recently at nostalgia races and exhibitions. Today the car remains in much the same livery as it did when Frank Hawley drove…
By the turn of the decade Plymouth was phasing out the old and ringing in the new. They replaced the Belvedere with the Fury as top-of-the-line. With Virgil Exner’s designs, the Fury came of age as a big luxury car, floating down the road with all the new fangled options that Mopar could come up…
Chevy collectors know life began at Chevrolet in 1955 when the Bel Air got a huge facelift and the results were so spectacular that Chevrolet sold 1.8 million cars between the 150, 210 and Bel Air trim models, record breaking sales for the automotive industry at the time. The 1955, 1956 and 1957 Bel Air…
It is a little known fact that it was Volkswagen that brought back the revered Bugatti name to prominence in 2006. Volkswagen, in fact, reset the clock on exotic super cars when they came out with the Bugatti Veyron. That took the super car market to a whole new level. Then the successor to the…
All muscle car enthusiasts seem to agree that the 1971 Plymouth Cuda was very possibly the most beautiful muscle car design of all time. Perfect from its gills in the front to its muscular haunches in the back, the billboard Cudas are a one-of-a-kind rendering for the ages. A California Mopar collector listed this Curious…
It was a time when small automakers could emerge and make it big. In the period between 1909 and 1912, a small automotive manufacturer called E-M-F moved into second place behind only Ford to make 26,827 vehicles in 1911. That was the year they built three purpose built race cars to compete in the Tiedeman…
Fun facts! Sometimes unusual things happened at the Ford factory that they did not want the general public to know about. The 1951 Ford F-3 Truck which you see here was sent by Ford to Grant Body and Equipment Company in 1951. Their commission was to make it a “three-door” truck. This unique one-of-a-kind vehicle…