Win on Sunday, Sell on Monday While that isn't true so much anymore, it was huge in the 60's as all the manufacturers were into racing, mostly the Trans Am series, even tiny American Motors. The Javelin had just been introduced in '68 as AMC's entry into the pony car category. The colors were red,... Continue Reading →
Who needs air conditioning. This is a cool car!
So I'm going through my news feed this morning and this image caught my eye. I like these guys. Crazy, just like me:)
Chasing Classic Cars at Road America
Mark and I love Road America and this past weekend they held vintage races there. Check out what Mark found on our Facebook page. While you're there, be sure to Like us.
Chasing Classic Cars: An AMC Pacer?
OK, not a classic and only cool in my eyes or any of the other AMC nuts that love the Pacer too. Oh yeah, they are out there. This looks to be about a 75 or 76. So here's your Monday morning laugh. Have a great week.
Bank on collecting metal promo models
For the heavy metal collectors Up until this point, all of the promo models I have written about have been plastic but there are a segment of collectors who concentrate those made of metal, most of them banks. Produced mostly in the 40's by Banthrico Company in Chicago, IL. Banthrico models painted in authentic Big... Continue Reading →
A T’bird, a Bel Air, and a Studebaker Avanti show up in the same parking lot…
This is no joke as I saw recently at a car show I attended. Check out the vid.
Chasing Classic Cars
Mark and I love cars, as if you don't know it already. We especially love classic and cool cars so we carry our cameras with us all the time to take a shot of a car. Heck one time when I was riding my Hayabusa, a passed a classic, turned around and followed it until... Continue Reading →
Links we like
Mark and I are totally in to cars, all kinds, and here are some of the places we like to hang out at: Chasing Classic Cars is on Velocity Channel. Love this show. Chasing Classic Cars follows Ferrari expert and master car restorer, Wayne Carini, as he takes viewers on his personal mission to uncover... Continue Reading →
My 1st Car: Everybody has a story
We all remember our 1st car How many times has it happened when you're driving down the road, or coming out to your car in a mall parking lot, or see a car on TV or a movie and boom, you remember that you had a car, your first, just like that. Not your second... Continue Reading →
Mercury Breezeway: When a Merc wasn’t a Ford
Another unique automotive innovation of the '60s I hate to see a car company go out of business, or car line dropped, especially being such a big AMC guy. Most likely the cars they produced utilized several innovations to separate them from their competition. The rear engine Chevy Corvair, Unibody Construction by American Motors, and... Continue Reading →