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The Rare Ride seen here represented an important turning point in the history of all things automotive. A single vehicle which changed rallying and simultaneously made four-wheel drive a more realistic prospect for passenger cars. Presenting the Audi Quattro. Audi’s idea to add four-wheel drive to a production car came about in 1977, when one […]
The rear-wheel-drive AE72 Toyota Corolla was sold in the United States alongside the completely unrelated “Corolla Tercel,” then was replaced by the front-wheel-drive AE82 and the rear-wheel-drive AE86 Corollas. Here’s a late AE72 liftback coupe, found in a San Francisco Bay Area self-service wrecking yard. The Hachiroku AE86 came with a twin-cam 4AGE engine, while […]
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– I’m behind the wheel of a 34-year-old Mustang GT. A soft burble from its V-8 lolls in the air. The tach needle lazily rises and falls as the manual shifter eases through all five gears. I’m rolling down Telegraph Road, not far from Ford’s Dearborn, Michigan, headquarters. My destination is 1983. READ MORE ›› […]
The first-generation Mazda RX-7 was sold in North America for the 1979 through 1984 model years, and California car shoppers loved these high-revving Wankel-powered sports cars. Most were hooned to death, sadly, ending their careers against concrete freeway abutments or suffering the death-of-a-thousand-cuts induced by backyard “tuners” over the decades. Here’s one that made it […]
The 760 was Volvo’s entry into the European luxury-sedan battles of the 1980s, and enough were sold in the United States that you’d see them alongside the likes of the BMW 5 Series now and then. A version with a turbocharged inline-six diesel engine was available on this side of the Atlantic, in theory, but […]
While many people are familiar with the “Miracle on Ice,” not so many are aware of Canada’s version on the hardwood. The 1980 Winter Olympics saw an underdog group of Americans amateur hockey players upset a powerhouse group of professionals from the Soviet Union en route to winning gold on home ice in Lake Placid. The Canadian men’s basketball team pulled […]
Ah, the Cadillac Cimarron. Conceived during a time when oil prices were zooming upward and smallish luxury imports such as the Datsun 810 and BMW 320i were stealing Detroit’s customers, the idea of a fuel-efficient compact Cadillac made sense. Unfortunately for GM, the Cimarron was an image-tarnishing disaster. Here’s a fairly well-preserved ’83 that I […]
– More than 300 cars turned out for the annual Rolling Sculpture car show, a summer fixture in downtown Ann Arbor, Michigan—and we couldn’t let such a thing happen right under our noses without diving in headfirst. As the event’s name suggests, it celebrates the pretty and the artful. So why did we choose to […]
-Built for a life of grocery getting and highway cruising, the 1983 Toyota Camry LE my friend Gus and I had bought for $ 500 was now rumbling over off-road trails in northern Michigan. Considering the car is eligible for an antique license plate, it had been handling this new life with surprising aplomb. Until we tried to force it […]
