The year 2045 will be a bleak and unpleasant place. Electric cars and self driving robots will craw slowly through the hazy moss covered landscape. Humans are enslaved by the McGooglebookmart corporate IT system that gained self awareness in 2025 and was voted in as President for life in 2035 after offering free Big Mac […]
Ford did the “business in the front, party in the back” two years before Chevy made it cool with the El Camino. Actually, both ran their respective nameplates well into the ’80s before gas-guzzling V8 two-seater pickups, like the mullets they embodied, became very uncool. Find this original, two-owner 1972 Ford Ranchero Squire on ebay […]
The Ford Ranchero beat the El Camino to the pickup-car market by two years, a handy fact at Ranchero owner’s disposal when everyone asks the model year of their “El Camino”. The Ranchero sold in decent numbers for a specialty vehicle, over 500,000 in its 22 years of production (for reference, that is equivalent to […]
The Volkswagen Type 3 was a successor to the popular Type 1 (Beetle), but maintained the Beetle’s basic architecture; rear engine, air cooled flat-4 and affordable price tag. It was a significant update in styling terms and sold new as a notchback, squareback and fastback. It wasn’t ever sold as a pickup truck, so El […]