The classic SJ generation Jeep Wagoneer was produced from 1962 through 1991 by and holds the unique title of being the world’s first luxury 4X4 sport utility vehicle and the choice of wealthy Hamptons’ housewives. The Grand prefix didn’t appear until 1984, but the last vehicles to come from the Toledo assembly plant are arguably […]
Whenever someone (usually a new acquaintance, typically in an elevator, or other confined space with little escape like a sauna or an any gender restroom, who was trying to hide in his/her phone) asks me what, exactly, is Daily Turismo? I pause, and attempt to articulate that it is a blog masquerading as a media […]
The Mercury Grand Marquis was a badge engineered version of the Ford Crown Victoria and Lincoln Town Car. It rode on the full sized Ford Platform in the mid 70s, but transferred (with its corporate stablemates) to the Panther platform in 1979 where it lived with the CrownCar through 2011. Today’s example comes from the […]
This next feature comes as a “friend of the seller” submission from Scot C, who writes: G body Grand LeMans- driveway find, [my driveway]. With harsher weather on the horizon he would like to see it in the hands of another ambitious owner. Runs and drives perfectly.~ A well kept ’78 Pontiac, great driver/project for […]
Have you ever had the experience of finding a car when you least expected it? Like the time you were pruning back the overgrown cannabis crop in your front yard and suddenly you stumble upon a Simca? Oh…that has never happened to you? Just this guy — find his 1958 Simca Aronde Grand offered for […]
The GTO always takes the glory as the worlds first muscle car, but the Pontiac Grand Prix actually beat the GTO to the market by two years. Both were heavily influenced by failed narcotics importer John Z DeLorean, featured big engines and minimalistic styling, but the GTO was on the intermediate sized A-body (Tempest) and […]