I’m writing a series of articles for the local paper on interesting cars in local garages. For my last story I got to drive a mint condition 1979 Mazda RX-7. Great experience. 

In 1960 we took a family vacation from southern Wisconsin to Gettysburg, Penn., in my dad’s 1959 Rambler American wagon. We camped along the way because, well, it’s how we rolled. So the back end of the Rambler was filled with the family’s luggage and our camping gear with six year old me back there with it most of…

Yup. Now that I’m retired and living off an IRA I view purchases like this in a whole new light. I bought a new car at the end of February (impeccable timing, I know). I put the entire amount of my trade into the transaction plus both factory incentives I was eligible for and got the 0% financing on the balance.…

Until effective treatments came along many believed that sniffing the exhaust of a Prinz (or prince for that matter) would ward off tuberculosis.

The buyer who would drool over this truck didn’t spend $20,000 on his house. CP.

Is anyone importing these — or other Brazilian rear-engine VWs — under the 25 year rule?

Forgot one: get a seat on a couple of boards of other companies and collect the compensation packages.

To this day the Mustang II stirs passions and arguments for and against. Nearly everyone agrees, though, a Ghia badge never belonged on it.

Near the top of the list but I’d rate it a close second.

Easily the classiest American car of the entire decade.

And here it is is in your teenage years.

Not to disagree with your overall premise but the “prominent airy upright greenhouse” and the “flying wing roof” were common design themes across GM brands beginning in 1959.

American manufacturers adopted 12-volt in the mid-1950s.

It’s probably in here somewhere.

You’re overthinking it. It’s about skill, not math. Either you have it or you don’t.

Rules for Preserving Sanity:

Definitely a nice price, almost suspiciously low. Does the seller know something the buyer should know about an impending repair? Side note: there are a couple of collectors around here so these show up at car shows pretty often. One guy has a small stable of them that he daily drives. He says he intends to keep them…

“Well, guess I was wrong.”

My FordPass app can lock/unlock and start my car. I never use it because of the lag time. If I use the key fob or the Securicode keypad it unlocks instantly and when I press the start button it starts instantly. Using the app there’s a delay of at least several seconds so what’s the point?

Neutral: Remote work.