Car Spot: 73 AMC Levi’s Gremlin

The start of an automotive fashion movement I get a lot of abuse for being such an American Motors geek. Part of it comes from my dad working there for 27 years in the Parts Division located in Milwaukee, but just thought they were cool. I know, it's a relative term. They always were able... Continue Reading →

August 31, 2025 0

Car Spot: Ford Pinto

America's answer to the Japanese car invasion ... Let me set the scene for you if you weren't around for the late 1960s to early '70s. Up until this point, gas was cheap in the US, about 31 cents a gallon, and we drove cars with big engines that got crappy gas mileage. But then... Continue Reading →

December 8, 2023 0

Car Spot: 78 Mustang II 2+2

Expensive fuel and insurance rates led to its development I remember the fall of 1973. The Arabs decided to punish the US for backing Israel and reduced our oil supply. Nearly quadrupling the price of oil from $2.90 a barrel before the embargo to $11.65 a barrel in January 1974 gas prices went through the... Continue Reading →

November 10, 2023 4

Car Spot: The Chevy Vega

A car that rusted right off the assembly line It was a car that was doomed almost from the very beginning. Code named the XP-887, the Chevy Vega was meant to stop shoppers from buying the many cars being imported from Japan that got great gas mileage but when GM's corporate engineering staff finally delivered... Continue Reading →

August 12, 2022 5

Crazy money shelled out at Mecum Kissimmee

A couple of AMC’s make the list There was some serious cash thrown around at the recently completed Mecum auction in Kissimmee, FL. Around 3,500 cars crossed the block with some crazy money chucked up for cars like this 2016 Pigani Huayra selling for almost two million. There were other million-plus cars but what a... Continue Reading →

January 17, 2022 0

I love different looking cars

This comes from a guy who owned a Gremlin and Pacer By Paul Daniel Some called them weird but there is a line. A different car is more than a one and done. It's a car with a production over several years, in the case of the Gremlin 70-78, and selling hundreds of thousands of... Continue Reading →

April 30, 2016 2

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 →