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…
Cars-On-Line’s Classic Car Newsletter is Your No. 1 Source for Classic Car News Early on in the “muscle car wars” Chrysler dropped the “A bomb,” the A-body car that is still considered to be the world’s fastest muscle car, the 1968 Hurst Hemi Barracuda. A limited number of factory Barracudas were sent to Hurst-Campbell (later…
Cars-On-Line’s Classic Car Newsletter is Your No. 1 Source for Classic Car News The 1969 Mustang Boss 429 stands as one of the most significant muscle cars ever built, created specifically to homologate Ford’s massive 429 cubic-inch semi-hemi “Blue Crescent” engine for NASCAR competition. Ford needed to sell at least 500 street versions to qualify…
Cars-On-Line’s Classic Car Newsletter is Your No. 1 Source for Classic Car News “If you live your life one quarter-mile at a time … nothing else matters.” Quote of the day from Vin Diesel. Often today the most expensive restomod builds incorporate a pro touring concept. The blend of modern performance with upgraded suspension and…
Cars-On-Line’s Classic Car Newsletter is Your No. 1 Source for Classic Car News If you attended the Amelia Island Concours earlier this month you may have seen this 1956 Mercedes-Benz 300SL Gullwing prominently displayed by the Ritz-Carlton. It is an excellent example of one of the most coveted cars in the world. It was so…
Cars-On-Line’s Classic Car Newsletter is Your No. 1 Source for Classic Car News By 1969, Ford Motor Company had the rights to use Carroll Shelby’s Cobra brand pretty liberally. That was the year they came out with a one-year only model called the 1969 Ford Cobra. It was a Fairlane based two-door version, which came…
Cars-On-Line’s Classic Car Newsletter is Your No. 1 Source for Classic Car News When I was in grade school the jeweler in my hometown had a Jaguar XKE parked outside his store. My schoolmates and I would oogle over it everyday on our way home from school. We knew that car existed in another world…
Cars-On-Line’s Classic Car Newsletter is Your No. 1 Source for Classic Car News The first generation of Ford Thunderbirds are considered highly desirable classic cars, but even among these hot collectibles there is a hierarchy in values. Some of the most valuable T-Birds are the E-Code Thunderbirds produced only in 1957. Ford Motor Company could…