Double Thorsday on a Wednesday?! With the Winter Olympics going on, it’s pertinent to talk about choices of old affordable cars for ski trips. If you live in the great frozen North then you already have a winter beater and need not apply, but for those of us who have to drive to the mountains […]
Winter is right around the corner. Some of the ski areas near where I live got a couple of inches of the white stuff at the top last week (since melted). What could be a more DT way to get ready for La Nina than a picking up a cross between a motorcycle and a […]
When does a custom car stop being simply a car and become a legend? I dunno, but I can tell you that you are getting close when you add the length of a Suburban and 6 wheels powering treads to the back of your Chevy Nova. Find this 1970 Chevrolet Nova Custom Snowmobile offered for […]
To this day the Corvair is a rear-engined anomaly in the catalog of American built automobiles. The Ed Cole led team at GM released the subtle styled Corvair as the rest of Detroit was trying to build bigger tailfins and build a functioning chrome windshield. The Corvair was different…a little bit European in its style, […]
From 1954 to 1957 a small enterprise in Compton, CA called Powell Manufacturing Company built a vehicle called the Sport Wagon. It used a 1941 Plymouth chassis…no really, each Powell was built on a used 1941 Plymouth chassis that had been reclaimed from a junkyard with a new steel body was plopped atop the used […]
We got a note the other day from DT regular AbnMike who says: Very nice original work truck. Buddy wrote the ad, he needs the money desperately. This feature falls somewhere between a tip and a seller submission, but we’ll give it the new sub mission badge because it looks sweet. Find this 1968 Ford […]
The 2nd generation Chevrolet G-series Sportvan was a cab forward compact van that replaced the rear-engined Chevrolet Corvair Greenbrier in the small van segment. The engine was located foward and under the driver and it allowed for a lower load floor in the back and the use of Chevy’s watercooled inline-6 and V8 engines – […]
Imagine a compact pickup truck that is equipped with a large bed, dually tires in the back for hauling, has a sleeper cab, gets great fuel economy from its 2-liter 4-banger, and can be purchased for about $5k. Great. Imagine now that it is absolutely worthless for accomplishing any single one of the tasks you […]
Barn finds may or may not be your thing, but the sight of an unrestored vintage racecar has a particularly strong pull. Don’t let the Ferrari guys have all the fun. Find this 1969 Lotus Europa S2 barn find for $3,383 reserve not met with 2 days to go. Words and tip from DT commenter […]
If you were a dentist who wanted to drive a convertible Cadillac in the early 1990s, your only factory option was the Allanté, which had Italian looks and a Northstar V8, but no back seat. This meant no room for your mistress’s illegitimate kids or dogs, or illegitimate dogs. Thankfully, a few aftermarket companies such […]