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Mercedes-Benz 280SL
Mercedes-Benz 280 SL: Beautifully Practical Should you be suspicious when you see the word “practical” used to describe a sports car? When a carmaker refers to a model as a “four-door sports car” or “the sports car of SUVs,” your[...]
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1969-1970 Cadillac De Ville Convertible
1969-1970 Cadillac De Ville Convertible: Last of Its Breed For decades, there was perhaps nothing more elegant, more dashing or more dripping with status than a Cadillac Coupe DeVille convertible. A DeVille convertible was the be-all, end-all aspirational car for[...]
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1957 Chevrolet – America’s Car
1957 Chevrolet: America’s Car. American carmakers served up a dizzying array of beautiful, powerful, intriguing and memorable automobiles in the 1950s, one reason that cars of this period remain popular with collectors. You could drive yourself crazy and trigger[...]
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Classic Chrysler Town and Country
Chrysler Town & Country: What Luxury Once Was Watching TV commercials for today’s luxury cars, you might begin to wonder, “What’s luxurious about a car doing power-slides over desert trails?” In car enthusiast vernacular, it’s called “hooning.” Somehow, that’s supposed[...]
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Storing your Classic Car for Winter
Prepare You Car for Winter Sleep Much of the country will begin plunging into the cold, wet world of winter in just a few weeks, and many classic-car owners will put their treasures away until spring. Those of you[...]
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Why You Should Try Waterless Car Wash
Why You Should Try Waterless Car Wash Years ago, it might have sounded like one of those too-good-to-be-true late night TV product pitches. Yet, today, “waterless car wash” is gaining popularity throughout the collector car community. If you like[...]
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Why Buy a Classic Car from a Dealer
Why Buy a Classic Car from a Dealer? Owning a classic car should be an exciting experience, something that rekindles old memories while making new ones. The hobby is stronger than it’s ever been, and there are more ways[...]
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Austin-Healey 3000
Austin-Healey 3000: Rule Britannia! In a quest to define the quintessential postwar British roadster, the Austin-Healey 3000 is surely a top contender. Built from 1959 until the end of 1967, this swanky six-cylinder sports car pulled the 1950s about as[...]
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2006-2010 BMW E60 M5
BMW E60 M5: If Ferrari Built a Sedan (E60 M5 - photo courtesy OSX) The latest BMW M5 belts out 600 horsepower and a massive 553 lb-ft of torque from its twin-turbo 4.4-liter V-8. And yet, many BMW M aficionados[...]
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1995-1998 Porsche 993 Last of the Air-Cooled 911 series
It will be 20 years this August that Apple introduced its first iMac, which began a dramatic reversal of fortunes for the then-struggling computer maker. Around the same time, the last air-cooled Porsche 911 models were leaving the building. Two[...]