The Triumph Spitfire was a tiny, lightweight, two-seat sports car assembled in Coventry, UK from 1962-1980. A competitor of the Austin-Healey Sprite & MG Midget, the Spitfire was only available with a small inline four cylinder engine. The Spitfire didn’t get the bigger inline sixes available to the GT6 or TR6, but if you spend […]
You don’t see many pre-war cars driving around on the street nowadays, most of them are Ford Model Ts…probably because Ford built a million of those things, actually that isn’t true, Ford built 15 million examples of the Model T, but if you want to drive an old car, you should get something that stands […]
Sometimes wheels ruin the look of a car…and sometimes they take it to the next level. The Ronal R10 Turbo wheels on this next car are a considerable improvement over the typical stock steelies you’ll find on a diesel Rabbit, and you might forget how stupifiyingly slow the car is when you look at those […]
The 6th generation Mercury Monterey was built on the Ford Galaxy platform and sold from 1965-1968 as a sedan, convertible and fastback. All came from the factory with FE-series big block V8s, and today’s example is offered with a rag top for a basic asking price. Find this 1965 Mercury Monterey offered for $12,000 in […]
The first generation Toyota RAV4 was built for the 1995 through 2000 model years on a platform that borrowed parts from the Toyota Carina and Corolla. Toyota continues to sell RAV4s today, but the first generation was the only platform to offer a cool looking 2-door version that you see here today. The seller is […]
This next car isn’t the most well optioned thing you’ll ever find in the wild, it doesn’t have all-wheel-drive, or have the big 4.0 liter inline-6 or a Chief package or Pioneer Olympic Edition or Laredo…you get the picture. This is base and basic…but I like it. Find this 2000 Jeep Cherokee XJ offered for […]
This next auction has me confused. I want to be supportive of the late model classic used car market, but I don’t think the people bidding this next car up to an eyewatering almost $20k have any idea how terribly slow a non-turbo diesel truck will be. Diesels are great when they are turbocharged, but […]
I’m feeling in a Z-car mood today, partially because I just discovered that you can’t buy a new Z from Nissan for the 2021 model year as they’ve discontinued the Z34 generation 370Z and will replace it for the 2022 model year with something called simply the Z. Power will come from a twin-turbo version […]
The Z32 generation Nissan 300ZX is a good looking car in any color, but I think Sapphire Blue is one of the better shades to get. It compliments the Isao Sono and Toshio Yamashita design well — better than the popular silver/gray or the bold red and whites you’ll see around. This next example appears […]
BMW didn’t produce many of their E3 generation 7-series predecessor, at least compared to the number of 7-series they built in later years. Today’s 3.0S is just one of 4506 built for the 1974 model year (out of 34k built from 1971-1977) which means it has the big ugly US Federally mandated basher bumpers, but […]