We typically don’t post many 22-year-old economy cars with automatic transmissions offered for high retail price at small used car dealers, but how often do you find an old economy car in near mint condition and less than 2K miles per year on the odometer? The 8th-generation Mitsubishi Galant isn’t an exotic or fancy car, […]
The problem with buying an older/classic/used car with 14 miles on the odometer is that you won’t be able to drive it much without losing most of the mark-up you paid for the car. Same with a car in the hundreds or even with 1000 miles. But once you get north of 5K miles, things […]
This next car is dedicated to our pal Hunsbloger, who raved about the Sable/Taurus on a semi-frequent basis, to the point I thought he might name a child “Sable”. What the Sablus offers is an inexpensive asking price, a reliablish platform, basic economy, and a comfortable package. If you drove a Sable through a wormhole […]
The ninth generation of Ford’s iconic Thunderbird (1983-1988) sits on the Fox platform shared with the Ford Mustang, Mercury Cougar, and Lincoln Mk VII. This version of the Thunderbird was a big boulevard cruising personal luxury coupe (shocker…I know), and you could get a 5.0 Windsor V8 as an upgrade over the basic V6, but […]
By 1999, the Oldsmobile lineup comprised the compact Achieva, mid-sized Cutlass & Intrigue, and the full-sized Eighty Eight & Aurora. The Eighty-Eight was in its 50th year of production, and it is no surprise that Olds knew what its buyers wanted. Unfortunately, the buyers were in the final stages of life and the entire Oldsmobile […]
The average car person will remember Saturn as the GM brand presented as an alternative to Japanese compacts that marketed its Tupperware body panels and a “different kind of car company” vibe. But the truth is sometimes obscured by busted valve guide smoke and the first Saturn was a concept car released in early 1984 […]
This next car popped up on my radar as a big pinging target for a few reasons — first it is an F150 in a color, not black or some boring shade of grey. Next it has a manual gearbox — check out the size of that shifter, it looks like someone stuck a Swiffer […]
The 2nd generation Chevrolet Corvair (1965-1969) was a much improved version of the previous car — gone was the sketchy swing axle suspension, which was replaced with a fully independent rear that helped keep the rear-engine car from wandering backwards across oncoming traffic lanes when you didn’t want that. Today’s example appears to have only […]
This next car has me confused. It is a first generation Toyota Tundra and has all the appearances of a high mile work truck — complete with ladder/lawn equipment ready racking and industrial white paint job. It even has a commercial truck plate (in California, a digit then alpha, then 5 more digits is the […]
I firmly believe that the 6 digit odometer, the prevalence of maintenance tracking apps like Carmax/Autocheck, and the rise of global internet auctions have somewhat turned car collecting into something akin to stamp collecting. There was a time when you judged a vehicle’s value based on a thorough inspection, a good test drive and your ability to tell if a car was junk…but these other tools (Carmax/Odo etc) have turned some of the car hobby into this armchair valuation game where 90s Miatas with 225 miles on the odometer are treated like they are something special. And this next car is a prime example, except I wouldn’t buy it without a good inspection and I wouldn’t assume the odo hadn’t flipped a few times, and I wouldn’t let it sit in my garage collecting dust while I waited to sell it for profit. Drive the dang things, that’s why they have wheels folks. Find this 1974 Pontiac Ventura Custom bidding for $12,000 with a few hours to go located in Fourmile, KY via eBay.