Very cool trip and an excellent story. Hope to see more. ... View more

I’m a bit of a classic muscle car fan bit I’d have the Nash in a heartbeat. Just a cute little fun car. Love it. ... View more

Keep the faith!!! ... View more

Interesting article and great comment on thankfulness. A little gratitude goes a long way, both for others and one’s own attitude. ... View more

Thanks for the encouragement. Glad to see others using the silicone spray. Good eye seeing the stereo! I bought that in 1994 with my paper route money. That Sony has been with me ever since. Even though it has been regulated to the garage duty now, I use it more than ever. ... View more

Great story, I too love the body lines of a 58, and nice to have a choice between both depending on the Michigan weather...enjoy! Maybe see you at Woodward sometime in my 62 Impala. ... View more

I wouldn't mind the one he drove off the lot. I did get a kick out of McQueen stalling, and pretending like he couldn't drive. ... View more

Long live Panther Love indeed. I am glad to hear you love all the great things that make a Panther a Panther, too!  ... View more

Here's My list: 1. Bullitt Mustang GT390 2.Bullitt Charger R/T 3. Vanishing Point Challenger 4.Two Lane Blacktop/American Graffiti '55 150 (Yes it is the same car in both films) 5.Phantasm Cuda (you pick which one because they ALL had great E bodies) 6. Eleanor from the ORGINAL Gone in 60 Seconds 7. Max's Falcon XB 8. Any of the Hollywood Knights hero cars (and the Robert Wahl farting scene at the pep rally) 9.  '50 Merc from the Stallone movie Cobra 10. Every car in Barnaby Jones (just kidding nobody needs that many mid 80s LTDs. And that's coming from a '76 LTD owner) 11. GTO from My Science Project (Along with Dennis Hopper coming back from the 60s dressed as Billy from Easyrider "It's a funky Valley High, man!") 12. The '58 Impala Ronnie Howard drove (which in my opinion was the best looking of ALL of the American Graffiti cars. Just a georgeous car) 13. '51 Merc from American Graffiti ... View more

Agreed. ... View more

I never was capable of a resurrection and father time has given me a 2 hour work limit with a days rest in between.So for me Im the third owner of original 59 VW transporter and a 69 Jeepster Commando,both with about 100K on the clock.All I have to do is keep them up,thats in my wheelhouse.My 'new' car is a 98 Lexus LS400.A simple alternator/power steering pump became an 18 day adventure when I stripped the blankety blank left hand thread on the serpentine idler pulley,meaning the front of engine required a teardown.Why Im a buy the best you can guy and why the newest joke on any auto repair in my family is "Do you have an 18 day block of time scheduled out" ?LOL!! ... View more

Sorry but I have driven a Lexus and it drove like crap. Repairs are very expensiveand the cost of one far exceeds a Most Gm cars. I have had Five straight Buick Regal Grand Sports. Four have had well over 100K on them, current one 106K and still runs like a scalded Cat and last trip got 36 mpg. My total non-maintenance bill for all 5 less than $1000 over the last 29 years. After 200K you don't know what a new cars runs like cuz you have gotten use to worn out parts. JMHO ... View more

" making cars safer has made them more dangerous"  Absolutely, I want to lob anything heavy at the TV lately over the commercials showing how their new ca-o-matic 2020 can save the lives of drivers who have no reason being on the road in the first place. Laughing and talking with the passenger and can't look forward? Dropped your fries? Turned around to see what the spawn kicking the back of your seat wants? Backing straight towards a garbage can, bicycle or prone position child who tripped trying to get out of your way? No worries, it's the car's job to deal with that while you track down that new sushi place on the other side of town with your big screen console TV. I've been riding motorcycles for almost 50 years, and now I mostly take the convertible or sliding panoramic  roofmobile instead of one of the bikes, because I'm just not in the mood to be a human sacrifice. Broke 3 vertebrae in a 1974 MC crash, my shoulder in '75. Each time I couldn't wait to get the bike and myself fixed enough to ride. Now, I'm amazed how often folks don't even see my silver 1 Ton Ford E350 van as they turn left in front of me, zoom in front of me in a traffic circle of just start drifting into my lane. Guess they'll blame their car for killing me. ... View more

Great pictures.  Derelict cars always make me a little sad.  That was new once, and perhaps someones pride and joy. ... View more

My great uncle blessed me early on with the indoctrination into his 1969 and 1982 c3 corvettes. Ever since i saw that angular fighter cockpit, I wanted one, and when he passed away in 2015 when i was 15, I hoped to one day own those wonderful cars for myself, while those exact cars went to his sons, I can say at 20 that i own a 1982 C3 and a 1984 C4! And synthwave culture was a part in both of them. My father raised me on New Wave music which holds similarities in the level of synthesizing within the songs to synthwave. So it ended up being the perfect storm! (btw I'm also proud to say my 82' received a t56 magnum last fall which makes me a Z that drives stick! :D) Thank you for this awesome article!   ... View more

 A dream realized.  Sweet, what more can one say?  ... View more

They closed shop a few years ago.  ... View more

We purchased a VW Fox wagon for my wife in order to avoid running her E21 BMW in the winter salted roads of Upstate NY.  We found the Fox on a local used car lot.  It had been in some kind of front end collision, because the front clip was from another car and the Fox had been repainted.  I can't remember the asking price, but it was astonishingly cheap.   We used the car for two years before giving it to her son.  It handled well in snow and never broke.  It was easy to service and held up very well.  But while it was fun to drive in the beginning, it began to feel like an incredibly BORING car over time.  Certainly not a car that you would want to take on an interstate trip.  ... View more

There is no arguing about tastes, but I do see several elements of beauty in the body work.  For me, the whole is not greater, etc.  We had a 1984 240 that took on a kind of beauty for me, but it also broke down a lot.  I have an irregular heartbeat, and I swear that it resulted from "Volvo breakdown anxiety."  ... View more

Not actually unique, but I always wanted a wooden steering wheel with the notched finger grips from the Mustang muscle car era. Its very hard to adapt an older steering wheel to a later model car with the bid air bag pod in them. But much much safer in the unfortunate ever does happen. Hope there are steering wheels in the autonomous car vision of today's youth! ... View more

I take my dog walking in a local woodland. We first entered that place last summer. We went in me not knowing the territory at all--about 4 1/2 miles of trails, and each time I'd go a bit farther, or take a new trail. For five months there was always mystery of not knowing quite where I was, and once I even had to let the dog lead me back to where I knew where I was. Now I know the place as well as I know my neighborhood. I often like to remember the mystery I felt at certain points on the trails, but I miss the mystery.  ... View more

You guys are crushing it! I’m a recent subscriber and it’s the first automotive website I look for news and updates. Your articles make me open up a million tabs and go down rabbit holes I didn’t know I needed to go down. ... View more

Thank you!  I am glad that you enjoyed it!  ... View more

Its what they’re for. Nice to see a younger guy into the model T. Like to know more about that disc brake kit. ... View more

Excellent article!  Thanks for the trip back through time.   I had the previous generation 200SX hatch, red with the white tape-and-stripe package.  Good times! ... View more

People seem to be fine with the products coming out of Jaguar-Land Rover after Mahindra's purchase, so I doubt there's cause for concern.  ... View more

We'd all assume the sound would cause significant damage, but it's usually very insignificant. The sheer volume of GM 5.3L Chevy/GMC trucks and SUVs with piston slap prove that owners can continue driving for tens (or hundreds?) of thousands of miles with no decline in performance. Just that annoying noise. ... View more

I'll believe levels 4 and 5 when I see them operating in cars that are free to go where-ever. I don't think that's going to happen during this decade, and maybe not even during the next.  I have somewhat mixed feelings: I'd like for people with disabilities to have an easier time getting around.  But I dislike the hubris of H. sapiens who think that technology can do any **bleep** thing they can think of.   I also think that self driving takes most of the adventure out of road trips. Three cross country trips were formative experiences of my early life--during the late '50s and early '60s. We never knew exactly where we were going to spend the night, unless it was with the cousins in Indianapolis or the cousins in Colorado. And we did a lot of stopping for local scenery or institutions--for example, the Quivira (sp?) specialty shop in Topeka, I think, from which my brother and I had gotten lizards that we kept as pets. I drove myself across the country for the first time when I was 17, in an 8 year old '62 Falcon. We (two riders and I) stopped at one of the rider's parents' house for a couple of days, in Iowa City. We got into Iowa City at about 3 in the morning, haven't left a park in Syracuse at 2AM the previous morning, because I couldn't sleep in the car (and I don't think either of them was having an easy time of it). She--26--had been on her own, and we stopped somewhere to try to get directions to her house, and she said, "You won't believe this, but I don't know where my parents live," or something like that.  None of that stuff would have happened in a self driving car.  ... View more

Hi Thomas; great article and fantastic photos!  I had a '57 Sedan de Ville that had 33K miles when I bought it in 1983, and 39K when I sold it in 2004. Of course the fins weren't comparable to the 1959s, but were still impressive.  Just a couple of "catches", though... You write "Most Eldorados from the Fifties were seldom seen in the Fifties"... I'd claim that they were much less-seen as time went on.   Also — I've never seen a vinyl roof covering on any Cadillac from that time. I could easily be wrong.  ... View more

There was another recent article here on Hagerty about this Jeep name thing.   The model on the paperwork is MB or GPW (Ford made the GPW and made a lot of them --about 40% of total wartime Jeeps).   You get the GP from the motorpool.   It's not a reach that GP becomes Jeep in common soldier slang. Sounds better than an "Emby"   Eugene the Jeep smells like a coincidence to me --that's giving a lot of credit for pop-culture penetration of a 1936 Popeye comic strip. 1938 for 1st cartoon short, 1940 for the 2nd. Bantam prototype project was circa 1940.   Then again, maybe one smart-aleck comic strip fan wanted their favorite Popeye character to live forever as a vehicle...   The trademark search is a standard thing. All sorts of bands (for example) have had to change their name for US market because someone, somewhen in part of the country used that name. Doesn't matter that it was a tiny regional band and you are the hugest thing from somewhere else. ... View more