The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975)

“Give yourself over to absolute pleasure.” — Dr. Frank-N-Furter As a stripped-down version of the Twentieth Century Fox theme plays, a midnight screening of The Rocky Horror Picture Show begins. “And God said, Let there be lips!” And there were lips: red lips, white teeth, black background. An androgynous voice sings “Science fiction, double feature.” […]

Rare Rides: This 1975 Chevrolet Is Both Vega and Cosworth

An enterprising GM executive, a British tuning company, and a compact hatchback came together in 1975 to make a very special, limited-production Chevrolet. It’s the Cosworth Vega, naturally. This Vega is the third instance of an H-body vehicle in the Rare Rides series; the only time we’ve featured a single platform thricely. Chevrolet’s Vega was […]

Autoblog Classifieds Finds: 1975 Mercedes-Benz 280C

Autoblog’s free Readers’ Used Car Classifieds section is a great place to list your car for sale, and because these are readers they often list really interesting cars. Occasionally we find interesting listings in our what’s special about them. This 1975 Mercedes-Benz 280C was listed for sale at the time of this writing, but if […]

Junkyard Gem: 1975 Plymouth Valiant Sedan

Chrysler built the US-market Plymouth Valiant for the 1960 through 1976 model years (OK, Mopar nitpickers, the 1960 model was its own marque, called simply “the Valiant”), and the reliable, fuel-efficient small Plymouth was a huge sales success for most of that period. Here’s a used-up ’75 sedan, photographed in a San Francisco Bay Area […]