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…
Cars-On-Line’s Classic Car Newsletter is Your No. 1 Source for Classic Car News Ten years ago we would see one or two of these Dodge T/A Challengers in our listings every week. Then Mopar collectors began noticing how rare they are and the prices started going up. Nobody wanted to sell them. That’s why today…
Cars-On-Line’s Classic Car Newsletter is Your No. 1 Source for Classic Car News If you were watching the Barrett-Jackson Auction last month, you might still be wondering what all the fuss is about with these custom built restomods. Why are all the youngsters paying huge six figure prices for these olds rides? Well, we thought…
Cars-On-Line’s Classic Car Newsletter is Your No. 1 Source for Classic Car News In around 1925 Rolls-Royce made a decision to replace the vaunted Silver Ghost model with the Phantom I, often referred to as the “New Phantom.” And, if you remember, Rolls-Royce cars were built here in the U.S. for the North American market…
Cars-On-Line’s Classic Car Newsletter is Your No. 1 Source for Classic Car News Every once in a while you come across one of these vintage Dodge Power Wagons restored as a restomod custom. Now that takes some restoration skills, mind you. Strip it to bare metal, align the panels, transplant the power train, rebuild axles,…
Cars-On-Line’s Classic Car Newsletter is Your No. 1 Source for Classic Car News At the height of the “muscle car wars” Chrysler dropped the “A bomb” on the racing scene. Even today, an A-body Mopar is still considered to be the world’s fastest muscle car … aka the 1968 Plymouth Barracuda 426 Hemi Super Stock…
Cars-On-Line’s Classic Car Newsletter is Your No. 1 Source for Classic Car News Although the Plymouth Superbird was a one-year wonder back in 1970, it had an indelible impact on NASCAR racing. Richard Petty, who had left Plymouth for Ford during the 1969 NASCAR season, came back to Plymouth for 1970 just to drive the…