Old Cars

Oddballs Galore

Here at Old Cars, we pride ourselves on presenting the cars and trucks that subscribers remember and can relate to, and often even own or have owned. But sometimes it’s fun to take a detour down the road less traveled by featuring vehicles that few...

SURPRISE! IT’S THE INDY PACE CAR!

Landing and restoring the 1970 Olds Indy pacer

Keeping it in the Hobby

Tis the season for firing up the V-8 and dashing around town, trying to find the perfect holiday gifts for those we love. Most people’s first inclination is to hit up all the big box stores to cross items off people’s wish lists, but there are other...

An Oldsmobile man instead?

Many consider me to be an Cadillac man, or even a Caprice guy, and I wouldn’t deny either of those titles, but I think if things had played out differently, there’s a good chance that I would have been an Oldsmobile man like Ralphie’s father in “A...

Built to Win

David Pearson’s 1937 Ford on display

Maybe 1988 Wasn’t So Bad

When I sat back and looked at the stories slated for this issue, I noticed there were two cars from the 1988 model year and thought to myself, “Uh-oh. Readers are going to come for me with a pitchfork.” That reaction might be understandable, but the...

Facing a Faded Dream

Like every car-hungry kid, I couldn’t wait to get my first car. In 1990, at age 14, I was already saving what little money I was making by detasseling corn and other chores for when I’d finally buy my first car. There was the red 1957 Chevy Sport Coupe...

Chevy’s First 9C1

Behind the first Nova police car

Why we go to shows

Since your last issue of Old Cars, I have walked the miles of aisles at the Iola Car Show to check out the cars and trucks on display and to shop for parts. The experience was a great reminder as to why we enthusiasts across the country gather on our...

Suffering Corvette Fever

While minding my own business, going about my daily errands of running kids around, I recently spotted a familiar curvy, metallic-blue outline in the window of a local boat repair shop’s tiny showroom. The business usually has several bright white...

Inside the Duesenberg SSJ

What makes America’s most valuable car tick

Hauling Memories

Hauling Memories Part 1 of ATHS national meet coverage

Welcome to IOLA!

Since the dawn of Old Cars, there has been a special issue of the publication dedicated annually to the Iola Car Show in Wisconsin. It’s no coincidence since the publication and the car show were founded in the early 1970s by the same man, Chester...

Forward-Thinking Names

This Chrysler-themed issue has been tremendously fun to assemble for me. Filling these pages are many of what I like to call “Angelo cars,” meaning those types of cars that I’d almost do unspeakable things to own. From the streamlined 1938 Chrysler...

Replacing History

So. Calif. Plating Co. truck reborn

Join us in Germany!

Take a trip with Old Cars

Insight Into the Last T-Bird

You know our man, Al Rogers, for his cover photography and his centerspread stories in each issue of Old Cars, but most people don’t know that, automotively speaking, there’s even more to Al beyond his camera and pen. Starting in the 1970s, Al served...

Get Them to Join Your Club

Every year, I spend a small fortune on club memberships. It’s not just to support the good works of as many clubs as possible, it’s also because so many clubs offer high-quality publications that are worth reading, sometimes over and over. Those clubs...

An F-150 Crash Course

“What is Angelo doing by starting his editorial with a picture of a Hot Wheels car? Did he finally fall off his rocker?” Well, maybe I am a little nuts, but the Ford theme to this issue had me thinking about an old Ford I once owned and have rarely —...

Ambassador to the Past

Plan Ahead: Making the Most of a Museum Visit

Many of us have visiting a vintage car and truck museum on our bucket list. Like many Old Cars readers, I enjoy stopping at museums while driving to and from car shows or while on vacation. Although I haven’t stopped at every museum I’d like to...

Dodging a Custom 880

It still amazes me that, after 25 years of working on Old Cars magazine, the stories from contributors and readers can bring back memories of automotive experiences that I’d somehow forgotten. The latest example is Al Rogers’ 1961 Dodge Dart Pioneer...

Speedster special appearance

In case you missed seeing the Stahls Motors and Music Experience’s Duesenberg Model J-powered 1935 Auburn Speedster at the Muscle Car & Corvette Nationals last November, the unique car will make another public appearance at the Auburn Cord Duesenberg...

How do we Meet the Growth?

Every January, Old Cars starts out the year by interviewing a handful of people working behind the scenes of the hobby who help it keep driving with the pedal to the floor and the steering wheel straight. This year is no different, and in this issue we...

Big, Bad & Blue

Finally, a 1969 AMC AMX

The Chevrolet Comfort Zone

Aphrase that you’ll now hear from time to time is “comfort zone”; a place that provides the feeling of safety or lack of stress. A comfort zone can be a physical or mental place, and my physical comfort zone is in a car. Specifically, it’s in a...

Cutlass Regrets

Like Mark Porcaro, whose letter about regretting the sale of his 1968 Pontiac Firebird many years ago appears in this issue’s “Sound Your Horn,” we almost all have a car that got away. For my part, there are a few cars that got away. Chris Strasburg’s...

‘Next Gen’ Rust Repair

Alot of time and space has been spent on the pages of and in the rest of the hobby on how to get young people interested in the old car and truck hobby. For my part, I have always beat the “exposure” drum— get your old cars and trucks out to car shows...

A Firebird flashback ...

My main job at home these days is grocery store runner. I have four kids, a dog and wife, and my main function is just driving back and forth to the local grocery store to keep everybody fed. I’m almost a trip-a-day guy. I’m good for at least five or...

Getting by with a little help from some friends

As our garage replacement project has ramped up toward the end of this summer, I hear the Beatles’ lyrics “I get by with a little help from my friends” every time I look at the slowly disappearing remains of our old and rotten garage. It’s been a...

Ode to the Auburn Hotel

It wasn’t which car would win the best Auburn, Cord or Duesenberg that was on the minds of club members over Labor Day weekend at last year’s Auburn Cord Duesenberg Club Reunion in Auburn, Ind. Instead, the buzz among club members was the eminent doom...

From ‘Cadillac Man’ to ‘Lincoln Man’

It seems as though I’ve started this column with “it’s been a busy summer” more than once this year, but it truly has. In addition to show travel and working on Old Cars, a lot of wood and metal has been moving at our home. Using generous advice...

MONTEREY CAR WEEK + PRICING ISSUE

Wildcat spotting

As I write this, the car show season is about to get into overdrive for the Old Cars staff. Once my keyboard cools, I will be packing for the Cadillac & LaSalle Club Grand Nationals in Gettysburg, Pa., and a few days after returning, I’ll be heading...

The Vanishing GS driver

Without fail, the theme of each issue of Old Cars gets me thinking about the cars I’ve owned or admired that would be at home on the pages of the issue. However, the muscle car issues always fill me with a little regret for not buying a muscle car when...