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The Rare Rides series has dabbled in AMC previously, cataloging some of the fun ideas generated by the good people of Kenosha, Wisconsin. We’ve featured the luxury targa Concord Sundancer, the unrealized Van, a baroque Matador Barcelona, and the Renault-by-AMC Alliance GTA. But none of those represents the AMC brand quite as well as today’s […]
I’m a big fan of the first-generation Honda CRX, as well as all members of the third-generation Civic family, having owned quite a few of the gas-sipping two-seaters. These cars rusted to nothingness generations ago in the Northeast and Midwest, but you’ll still find them in the warm, dry parts of the country. Here’s a […]
The K Platform, introduced for the 1981 model year, saved Chrysler from certain bankruptcy. By 1983, a stretched-out K chassis had been developed; the Chrysler version was the E-Class, while Dodge had the 600. These cars have become all but extinct now, so this ’87 600 sedan in a Denver-area wrecking yard is a noteworthy […]
Enlarge (credit: Squirrel Monkey) Alexa, Google Assistant, Cortana, Siri, and Bixby, we guess, are getting more and more prevalent, the narrative goes. A lot of people believe the personal assistant’s moment is now. But why now? Could it have happened back in say, 1987? Probably not. But if you want a speculative glimpse at what that […]
A member of the 1987 Buick press fleet is hitting the auction block next year and it’s a rarified gem: a low-mileage Regal Grand National GNX, serial No. 003 and one of just 547 models built for that year, and the last of the traditional body-on-frame, rear-wheel-drive Grand Nationals. It’ll be auctioned at the Barrett-Jackson […]
AP Thirty years ago, the Dow Jones industrial average plunged by 22.6% — a gut-wrenching 508 points — to 1,738.74 on what is now referred to as Black Monday. It was by far the largest one-day percentage drop in US stock market history. That would be the equivalent of the Dow crashing by about 5,233 points in a single day, down to 17,921. […]
During the 1980s, every Accord that Honda could export to or build in the United States was snatched up immediately by eager customers. The third generation of Accord, built from the 1986 through 1989 model years, once roamed American roads in large numbers, but is now nearly extinct. Here is a low-mile (for an Accord) […]
The Oldsmobile Cutlass was once the best-selling car in the United States, topping the sales charts in 1975 and 1976, but the Cutlass name spiraled down into incoherence and, eventually, irrelevance during the 1980s. By 1985, there were three unrelated vehicles bearing the Cutlass name: the Chevy Celebrity-based Cutlass Ciera, the N-body Cutlass Calais, and […]
Most of the wrecking yards I visit while shooting photographs for this series are high-inventory-turnover pull-your-own-parts establishments in California and Colorado, and both regions have been Volvo 240 hotbeds for the last 40 years. During the last 15 years or so, however, the rate at which the boxy Swedes get junked has accelerated, driven partly […]
