Nick Mason’s Ferrari 250 GTO helped the legendary band make its late ’80s comeback. Join us for a musical trip back to the 1980s. We’re headed for 1987 and the heyday of the ’80s glam rock scene, but leave your acid-washed jeans…
Pull into an old shopping plaza where the scent of the 1990s still hangs in the air, and you’re bound to see a car dealer that had changed brands several times since the Reagan administration. Sometimes it’s obvious, like a quonset hut…
In almost every aspect in life there’s an easy way to do things, and then there’s the hard way. Neither route is necessarily the right way in a given situation; it would be easy, for instance, to end a relationship by text…
Old cameras are much like old cars, but smaller and (usually) cheaper, and so I’ve amassed quite a collection of photographic hardware from the 1890s through the 1960s and taken those cameras to document races, junkyards, and whatever other automotive subjects catch…
Of course it’s a Ferrari. If you’re a fan of vehicle auctions, you probably had a busy weekend. Barrett-Jackson’s COVID-delayed Scottsdale auction took place the week of March 22, and the primetime weekend slots saw some surprising million-dollar sales. The first production…
Last week, we learned that Ford is to kill off the Mondeo. Production will end in 2022 as Ford seeks to refocus its efforts on – you guessed it – SUVs and electrification. There are rumours of the badge one day being…
Only three of these are believed to exist If you’re familiar with the Allard Motor Company, it’s likely from the British brand’s sports cars in the 1940s and 1950s, most notably the J2 and J2X. In the late 1980s, F1-designer Chris Humberstone…
Here in North America, we got to know the 1985-1990 KE Ford Laser as the Mercury Tracer, and its successor was a near-identical twin to the Ford Escort for the bulk of the 1990s. Underneath, all these cars were Mazda Familias, which…
In addition to being the final new car available in the United States with under 50 horsepower, the Suzuki-built Geo (later Chevrolet) Metro was always among the very cheapest new cars you could buy during its 1989-2001 production run. By 1994, the…
Forget the Oldsmobile Aurora. Because years before Ransom Olds’s namesake brand introduced its sleek Aurora flagship sedan, Cadillac applied the name to a no-less aerodynamic-looking sedan, which it pulled the wraps off of at the 1990 Chicago Auto Show. The all-wheel-drive Cadillac Aurora…