Cars-On-Line’s Classic Car Newsletter is your No. 1 source for Classic Car News We get this question all the time. So, what year did Pontiac make the Bandit Edition Trans Am? Most people will tell you it was the 1977 Pontiac Trans Am SE because the original cars used to make the 1977 feature film…
Ford and Chevrolet were spoiling for a fight in 1957. The year before, Ford won 14 Grand National races in NASCAR. So Chevrolet came out with Rochester Fuel Injection in 1957. Ford, not wanting to give up its dominance in NASCAR, produced their Phase One Supercharger program. To meet NASCAR homologation requirements for their 312…
Nearly all of the 1970 AMC Rebel Machines you see on the market today have the standard Red, White and Blue paint scheme. Even AMC collectors don’t know that the Rebel Machine was available in other colors. For 1970 they even included some of the Big Bad colors which were offered on the 1969 AMX’s.…
If a 1969 Pontiac GTO Judge in Carousel Red paint should cross your path you know you are looking at a legendary performance muscle car. But if that GTO Judge should happen to be a rare Ram Air IV version … well, that’s a hallowed moment in your memory that you will not likely forget.…
With less money and almost no promotion, Mercury’s racing program was gaining traction on the much better funded Ford Mustangs. In mid-1967 Mercury built about 10 Cougar 427’s with the purpose of competing in NASCAR. This prototype went into production to homologate the Cougars for NASCAR in ’68. The street versions used 7.0 liter 427E…
The 1969 Camaro is considered to be the perfect American muscle car. At the top of the Camaro food chain is the 1969 Camaro Z/28 RS. That hidden headlight front valance on the Z/28 RS is iconic in design and effect. The cherry on top is when you see one in Hugger Orange, the most…
Based on the success of the Shelby Mustangs and the California Specials, Ford came out with a Mustang Mach 1 Twister Special for the Kansas City District Ford dealers in 1970. Today they are some of the most sought after classic Mustang muscle cars because they are so rare. Ford dealers in the Kansas City…
With Carroll Shelby spending so much time on the GT-40 racing program for Ford Motor Company, he had to give up Shelby Mustang production to Ford to keep the program going. So 1967 was the last year that Shelby Mustangs were actually produced at his Shelby American plant. Forged out of the close friendship…
The great automotive designers of the 1950’s often drew up concept car renderings, and then used 1/30 clay models to visualize their automotive stylings. But, as the story goes, when Dodge decided to make a half-ton pickup truck to compete with Chevrolet’s Cameo Carrier, they sent their Specialty Equipment Group manager out to the parts…
There is no celebrity more marketable than Taylor Swift in 2024. So, when a 1970 Plymouth Road Runner Convertible was listed for sale this week we got a little curious when the description said it was used in a Taylor Swift music video. Sure enough, we watched the music video for her hit song “15”…