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Cars-On-Line Newsletter April 18 2025
Cars-On-Line’s Classic Car Newsletter is Your No. 1 Source for Classic Car News When a car is this rare, a “cost-is-no-object” restoration is expected. This 1969 Boss 429 Mustang was the subject of a recent…
Cars-On-Line Newsletter April 11 2025
Cars-On-Line’s Classic Car Newsletter is Your No. 1 Source for Classic Car News In 1970 you could get an R Code 428 Cobra Jet engine in many Ford and Mercury model cars. But the most…
Cars-On-Line Newsletter April 4 2025
Cars-On-Line’s Classic Car Newsletter is Your No. 1 Source for Classic Car News The collector car market is ever changing. What is common place today may be very rare and desirable tomorrow. So it was…
Cars-On-Line Newsletter March 28 2025
Cars-On-Line’s Classic Car Newsletter is Your No. 1 Source for Classic Car News The legendary Pierce-Arrow motorcar represented luxury, innovation and craftsmanship in an era when automobile manufacturing was changing American lifestyles. Pierce-Arrow’s signature feature…
Cars-On-Line Newsletter March 21 2025
Cars-On-Line’s Classic Car Newsletter is Your No. 1 Source for Classic Car News During the 1971 Indianapolis 500 parade festivities, a local Indianapolis Dodge dealer was driving the 1971 Dodge Challenger Pace Car Convertible when…
Cars-On-Line Newsletter March 14 2025
Cars-On-Line’s Classic Car Newsletter is Your No. 1 Source for Classic Car News The smooth and powerful V12 engine was a Packard trademark in the 1930’s when Packard was one of the dominant brands in…
Cars-On-Line Newsletter March 7 2025
Cars-On-Line’s Classic Car Newsletter is Your No. 1 Source for Classic Car News There aren’t enough superlatives to describe what it means to win the world’s top custom car award. The coveted Ridler Award is…
Cars-On-Line Newsletter February 28 2025
Cars-On-Line’s Classic Car Newsletter is Your No. 1 Source for Classic Car News The mercurial nature of the collector car market never ceases to amaze us. Just recently we have noticed that “AMC muscle cars…
Cars-On-Line Newsletter February 21 2025
Cars-On-Line’s Classic Car Newsletter is Your No. 1 Source for Classic Car News Mopar collectors may remember when this Bahama Blue 1971 Plymouth Hemi ‘Cuda was featured for sale on an auction site a few…
Cars-On-Line Newsletter February 14 2025
Cars-On-Line’s Classic Car Newsletter is Your No. 1 Source for Classic Car News It might well be said that E.L. Cord was a man who was born way ahead of his time. His vision of…
Cars-On-Line Newsletter February 7 2025
Cars-On-Line’s Classic Car Newsletter is Your No. 1 Source for Classic Car News Cruisin Classics calls it a ‘unicorn.” It truly is a rare one. They just posted this Tuxedo Black 1966 Chevrolet Biscayne L72…
Cars-On-Line Newsletter January 31 2025
Cars-On-Line’s Classic Car Newsletter is Your No. 1 Source for Classic Car News Sometimes a great muscle car will fly under the radar of the average collector car investor. One such car is the Mercury…
Cars-On-Line Newsletter January 24 2025
Cars-On-Line’s Classic Car Newsletter is Your No. 1 Source for Classic Car News The 1969 Camaro body style has the most desirable and iconic look of any Chevrolet muscle car in history. No other Camaro…
Cars-On-Line Newsletter January 17 2025
Cars-On-Line’s Classic Car Newsletter is Your No. 1 Source for Classic Car News Is this the Plymouth Belvedere that was buried in Tulsa, Oklahoma in 1957? No, this is not the car. But it is…
Cars-On-Line Newsletter January 10 2025
Cars-On-Line’s Classic Car Newsletter is Your No. 1 Source for Classic Car News Restomod is a term used pretty loosely in internet ads these days. A true restomod, the way the word was intended, is…
Cars-On-Line Newsletter January 3 2025
Cars-On-Line’s Classic Car Newsletter is Your No. 1 Source for Classic Car News When the 1970 AMC Rebel Machine was introduced during the 1969 NHRA Nationals in Dallas, they pulled out all the stops to…
Cars-On-Line Newsletter December 20 2024
Cars-On-Line’s Classic Car Newsletter is Your No. 1 Source for Classic Car News This week a custom rat rod was listed for sale that was so cool it would make a fitting sled for Santa…
Cars-On-Line Newsletter December 13 2024
Cars-On-Line’s Classic Car Newsletter is Your No. 1 Source for Classic Car News While Cords and Duesenbergs are at the pinnacle of desirability for car collectors here in the U.S., a period rival sometimes slips…
Cars-On-Line Newsletter December 6 2024
Cars-On-Line’s Classic Car Newsletter is Your No. 1 Source for Classic Car News A rare and beautiful 1955 Pontiac Laurentian Convertible was listed for sale in our Pontiac Section this week. What a find for…
Cars-On-Line Newsletter November 28 2024
Cars-On-Line’s Classic Car Newsletter is Your No. 1 Source for Classic Car News We all know about the history of the Chevy El Camino and the Ford Ranchero as they became the symbol of rural…
Cars-On-Line Newsletter November 22 2024
Cars-On-Line’s Classic Car Newsletter is Your No. 1 Source for Classic Car News Someone with some animal spirits put a lot of work into this one-of-a-kind 1949 Dodge B Series Pickup turning it into a…
Cars-On-Line Newsletter November 15 2024
Cars-On-Line’s Classic Car Newsletter is Your No. 1 Source for Classic Car News If you were watching the GAA Classic Fall Auction this past weekend you probably got an initiation to what restomod custom classics…
Cars-On-Line Newsletter November 8 2024
Cars-On-Line’s Classic Car Newsletter is Your No. 1 Source for Classic Car News How hard would it be to find another 1969 Pontiac GTO Ram Air IV Convertible like the one you see here? Well,…
Cars-On-Line Newsletter November 1 2024
Cars-On-Line’s Classic Car Newsletter is Your No. 1 Source for Classic Car News What is the hottest car in the collector car market right now? If you said the Plymouth Hemi Cuda you could arguably…
Cars-On-Line Newsletter October 25 2024
Cars-On-Line’s Classic Car Newsletter is your No. 1 source for Classic Car News A rare mid-year production Chrysler was available for only half a production year in 1931. The CG Imperial Eight by Chrysler is…
Cars-On-Line Newsletter October 18 2024
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…
Cars-On-Line Newsletter October 11 2024
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…
Cars-On-Line Newsletter October 4 2024
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…
Cars-On-Line Newsletter September 27 2024
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…
Cars-On-Line Newsletter September 20 2024
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.…
Cars-On-Line Newsletter September 13 2024
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…
Cars-On-Line Newsletter September 6 2024
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…
Cars-On-Line Newsletter August 30 2024
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…
Cars-On-Line Newsletter August 23 2024
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…
Cars-On-Line Newsletter August 16 2024
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…
Cars-On-Line Newsletter August 9 2024
Cars-On-Line newsletter readers know the story of the Kaiser Darrin two-seater sports car. For decades the American automotive manufacturers had been challenged by the concept of producing a two-seater sports car as European automakers like…
Cars-On-Line Newsletter August 2 2024
For classic Corvette collectors the year to own is 1967. That was the year they produced the 427 big block Corvette creating 435 horsepower. The Big Block Corvettes of that year got the stinger hood…
Cars-On-Line Newsletter July 26 2024
The mystique of the 426 Hemi often seems to over shadow its sibling V-Code 440 6-Pack which could also be ordered in any Plymouth E-body or B-body Mopar. Among Mopar power plants the V-Code was…
Cars-On-Line Newsletter July 19 2024
In an era when big fins were a subject of fascination for new car buyers, Mopar led the way. Chrysler’s designer, Virgil Exner, stayed with big fins through 1960. Although most people think the 1959…
Cars-On-Line Newsletter July 12 2024
Our readers may remember this 1932 Ford Roadster from when it competed at the 2007 Detroit Autorama for the Ridler Award, the highest honor in the street rodding hobby. It was selected to the Great…
Cars-On-Line Newsletter July 5 2024
The street rod culture, as indexed by the top nationally known car show venues, has evolved over the years to include classic customs and the coveted “old school” customs. It used to be that the…
Cars On Line Newsletter June 28 2024
Talk about a classic Mustang that checks all the boxes. This 1965 Mustang GT K-Code Convertible is the right car, in the right color, with the right equipment group. The original Vintage Burgundy exterior sets…
Cars-On-Line Newsletter June 21 2024
For a time just before the Mustang premiered in the mid-1960’s, Ford Motor Company’s top franchise was the Thunderbird. After the first generation Thunderbird’s were produced, the T-Bird increased in size to become a mid-sized…
Cars-On-Line Newsletter June 14 2024
The story line would make a great novel, yet the truth is more scintillating than fiction. Ford was plotting to dominate NASCAR with a Semi-Hemi motor that couldn’t be beat. NASCAR’s homologation rules required that…
Cars-On-Line Newsletter June 7 2024
Back in ’68 it didn’t matter what your budget was to buy a new car, Chrysler would put a Hemi in it for you. That meant you could buy the bargain priced muscle car like…
Cars-On-Line Newsletter May 31 2024
The “Sarge” was built to lead younger generations back into the collector car hobby. That was the goal when the Rebuilding Generations movement built this pro-touring restomod Mustang. When it was showcased at SEMA in…
Cars-On-Line Newsletter May 24 2024
There is no question that this 1970 Plymouth Hemi Cuda is just about the most desirable classic muscle car in existence. A question always comes up, however, as to how to value this car. In…
Cars-On-Line Newsletter May 17 2024
There are some muscle car collectors who still think the first Plymouth ‘Cudas were produced in 1970. Actually, the first Barracuda to be christened with the ‘Cuda street slang name was produced by Plymouth in…
Cars-On-Line Newsletter May 10 2024
A true “Dream Car,” this 1969 Pontiac Trans Am stands the test of time and looks great doing it. Pontiac collectors may remember it as a feature car in Pontiac Enthusiasts and High Performance Pontiac…
Cars-On-Line Newsletter May 3 2024
Does anyone know how many LT1 Corvette roadsters were built in 1971? That question has been burning in my brain ever since I saw this 1971 Corvette LT1 Convertible as it was being listed for…
Cars-On-Line Newsletter April 26 2024
On a pedestal of legendary proportions, history may record that the greatest of all muscle cars was the Hemi powered Dodge Daytona Charger. Made for only one year in 1969, the powerful Hemi Winged Warrior…
Cars-On-Line Newsletter April 19 2024
If one pulled up next to you, you wouldn’t know what it was. No badging, no emblems to designate the big block 427 under the hood. The COPO 427 Chevelle was a monster of a…
Cars-On-Line Newsletter April 12 2024
When Larry Shinoda penned the final design touches on the new Boss 351 little did he know it would be the swan song for the venerable Boss legacy. The new Boss 351 Mustang for 1971…
Cars-On-Line Newsletter April 5 2024
The diminutive American Motors Corporation was determined to build muscle cars like the Big Three back in the muscle car era. By 1970 they came out with a car which they simply called The Machine.…
Cars-On-Line Newsletter March 29 2024
Howard “Dutch” Darrin was an inventor and automotive designer extraordinaire who would often hobnob with Hollywood celebrities who wanted their vehicles custom modified. Having learned much about European coachbuilding while he worked in France, he…
Cars-On-Line Newsletter March 22 2024
How do you appraise the value of celebrity ownership on a classic muscle car? This week Merlin Auto Group out of Atlanta, Georgia listed a 1969 Chevelle Big Block Convertible which was owned by legendary…
Cars-On-Line Newsletter March 15 2024
From a side view you can see how the 1934 Hudson Terraplane perfected the art deco design that was all the rage in that period of history. With its muscular stance, the Terreplane was actually…
Cars-On-Line Newsletter March 8 2024
One of the most sought after collector cars of all time is the Shelby 427 Cobra. There is a reason why it is the most replicated car in the collector car hobby. The 427 Cobra…
Cars-On-Line Newsletter March 1 2024
There is considerable banter between historians about which American made car was the first two-seater sports car produced here in the U.S. Was it the Chevrolet Corvette or did Kaiser beat Chevrolet to the punch…
Cars-On-Line Newsletter February 23 2024
You can argue about which muscle cars are the most powerful, fastest or most race worthy, but there is little doubt that the most stunningly visual car to come out of the muscle car era…
Cars-On-Line Newsletter February 16 2024
Seldom seen and incredibly rare, we came across a 1956 GMC Suburban Carrier classic 1950’s pickup truck yesterday when it was listed by Legendary Motorcars, one of the top restoration facilities in North America. As…
Cars-On-Line Newsletter February 9 2024
The Dodge Challenger T/A and its cousin, the Plymouth AAR Cuda, were born of the same era in Mopar racing history. The T/A and AAR Cuda were purpose built from the factory to compete with…
Cars-On-Line Newsletter February 2 2024
One of the rarest of all American sports cars is the 1957 Ford Thunderbird F-Code with a supercharged 312 ci V8 engine, the hottest engine in America for its day. We discovered this rare Bird…
Cars-On-Line Newsletter January 26 2024
If you were to ask automotive historians which cars would be on their Top 10 list of all time, the Mercedes-Benz 500 K Roadster would likely be at the top of those lists. For decades…
Cars-On-Line Newsletter January 19 2024
Uuwhhhh, you won’t see one of these very often. A rarest of the rare Poncho, 1962 Pontiac Catalina Super Duty, was restored by one of the masters. It has a solid lifter 421 ci V8…
Cars-On-line-Newsletter-January-12-2024
Dodge had quite a reputation for making great trucks during World War II so their truck business thrived following the war. They were known for their tough, durable design, advanced technology and powerful performance. The…
Cars-On-Line Newsletter January 5 2024
With AI (artificial intelligence) being the top buzz word for 2023, you can’t turn around without running into someone telling us how AI will be the next big trendy thing in our world. How does…
Cars-On-Line Newsletter December 22 2023
Not to be outdone in the big block wars of 1970, Chevrolet introduced their best “grocery getter” of all time when they came out with the Chevelle SS LS6 with the monster 454 ci V8…
Cars-On-Line Newsletter December 15 2023
With a rich racing heritage, the Saleen S7 was the culmination of years of racing design and experience. While Saleen Automtive, Inc. (headed by Steve Saleen) was involved with producing a few Saleen S7-R examples…
Cars-On-Line Newsletter December 8, 2023
Sometimes the value in a top end collector car is in how it was brought back to life. Do you know how many beautifully restored cars never get driven and waste away in storage? Here…
Cars-On-Line Newsletter December 1 2023
We have a rare one for you this week. Lost in the background of top collector cars here is an opportunity for our readers to get up close and familiar with a 1962 Ford Thunderbird…
Cars-On-Line Newsletter November 23 2023
Custom built show cars and trucks have always been treasured finds among car collectors. That is especially true when some big name California custom builders are involved in the restoration. Californians may have seen this…
Cars-On-Line Newsletter November 17 2023
Yesterday a beautiful classic 1950’s convertible was listed in our Buick Section that is so rare and hard-to-find that we had to show it to you here. This is a 1954 Buick Roadmaster Series 75C…
Cars-On-Line Newsletter November 10 2023
A little reported part of our automotive history is how the Lincoln brand became a competitor in the luxury car market with Cadillac and Packard. There was a dispute between Henry Leland, the Cadillac founder,…
Cars-On-Line Newsletter – November 3 2023
The term “restomod” is the most over worked word in the collector car lexicon. By definition it is called a “restomod” when it looks classic original, but runs like a modern day high performance super…
Cars-On-Line Newsletter October 27 2023
Threatened by Chevrolet’s Cameo Carrier Pickup trucks, Dodge knew it had to compete with them in the “passenger friendly” half-ton pickup market. Their “Sweptside” pickup series emerged in 1957 and it changed how pickup trucks…
Cars-On-Line Newsletter October 20 2023
A 1970 Mercury Cougar Eliminator is a rare and desirable classic muscle car in its own right. But the car you see displayed here is light years beyond that. This is an incredible find, being…
Cars-On-Line Newsletter October 13 2023
There is a 1969 Dodge Charger Hemi R/T in the Cars-On-Line New Listings this week. It will have all Mopar collectors drooling. This is the ultimate Mopar muscle car. Only one problem. The seller is…
Cars-On-Line Newsletter October 6, 2023
When American Motors came out with the Rebel Machine in 1970 it was their statement that they were in the Muscle Car Wars with the Big Three auto makers. The base price on this amazing…
Cars-On-Line Newsletter September 29, 2023
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…
Cars-On-Line Newsletter September 22, 2023
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…
Cars-On-Line Newsletter Sept 15, 2023
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…
Cars-On-Line Newsletter Sept 8, 2023
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…
Cars-On-Line Newsletter – Sept 1, 2023
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…
Cars-On-Line Newsletter August 25, 2023
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…
Cars-On-Line Newsletter – August 18, 2023
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…
Cars-On-Line Newsletter August 11, 2023
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…
Cars-On-Line Newsletter July 28, 2023
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…
Cars-On-Line Newsletter July 21, 2023
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…
Cars-On-Line Newsletter July 14, 2023
The opus of the muscle car, where it all began … almost everyone is in agreement that it was with the advent of Pontiac’s GTO that the muscle car movement came to be. Before it…
Cars-On-Line Newsletter July 7, 2023
The jury was still out when Chevrolet’s 1954 Corvette showed up in dealer showrooms across the U.S. Did it fullfill the pent up demand for a two-seater sports car in the American landscape? There is…
Cars-On-Line Newsletter June 30, 2023
Every custom car collector’s dream is to own a legendary show car. After years of custom fabrication and endless hours of wet sanding and polishing to perfection, a show quality custom will impress show goers…
Cars-On-Line Newsletter June 23, 2023
426 Hemi Mopar muscle cars are the ones all others are judged by. If you want to give respect to an engine you compare it with the Elephantine Hemi. Just mentioning the word “Hemi” in…
Cars-On-Line Newsletter June 16, 2023
Carroll Shelby must have been mystified when everyone wanted his rare little Cobras and Mustang Shelby muscle cars. Probably the worst part was that everybody was making money off his name … everybody except him.…
Cars-On-Line Newsletter June 9, 2023
Before Carroll Shelby’s Cobras and Jim Hall’s Chaparrals there was an American racer and car builder named Bob Carnes who built amazing race cars out of his shop in Colorado. They called them Bocars, and…
Cars-Online-Newsletter-June-2-2023
We think of classic Camaro 427’s as iconic cars to be cherished today. But back in the day, they were born to race and get beat up at the dragstrips. Finding one with low miles…
Cars-On-Line-Newsletter-May-26-2023
Is there any car more popular in the American collector car market than a ’57 Chevy Convertible? This should not offend anyone but the car most collectors would chose over a ’57 Chevy is the…
Cars-Online-Newsletter-May-19-2023
A few cars in automotive history have achieved a folk lure level of notariety that you might call legendary. The 1970 Plymouth Hemi Superbird is one of those cars. It was what brought Richard Petty…
Cars-Online-Newsletter-May-12-2023
When an everyday muscle car met up with this 1970 Pontiac GTO Ram Air IV at the track it would leave them in its exhaust. You could put a “Bye, Bye!” sign in the back…
Cars-Online-Newsletter-May-5-2023
Historians will tell you that some of the most beautiful cars ever made were built in the 1930’s as the country was just coming out of a recession. In those days Packard commanded a brand…
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