At first glance, you might mistake the Daihatsu Rocky for a Suzuki Samurai. But those chunky fender flares and that almost Dodge Ram-like face give away that this is something more unusual even before you…
SEAT 600: Putting Spain On Wheels
It’s too late for a Friday Fiat, but how about a Sunday SEAT? Por qué no los dos? The Fiat 600 was designed in Italy by Dante Giacosa and Co., but starting in the spring…
Cord 8/10: Eight-Tenths Of The Real Thing
It’s a Cord, yes, but look closely and you’ll see that the proportions aren’t quite right. That’s because this Cord is from 1964, not 1936. It’s a Cord 8/10 Sportsman, an attempt to revive the…
Argentine Flashback: Siam di Tella 1500
Another distant trip today through the OldMotors archives, this time to Buenos Aires, Argentina, in the 1960s. That’s el Teatro Colón in the background, Argentina’s most famous opera house and no doubt the primary subject…
Lancia Delta S4 Stradale: Group B As In Bonkers
It lasted just four frenzied years, but the Group B rally era was one of the wildest (and today best remembered) episodes in motorsports history. The Group B arms race of increasingly wild four-wheel drive…
1967-72 Chevrolet & GMC Pickups: The Action Line
“We think it’s about time trucks stopped looking so trucky,” read one of Chevy’s ads for its all-new 1967 pickups. In sharp contrast to most of today’s pickups, 1950s and 1960s trucks went out of…
Ford Cortina MkV: A Family Favorite’s Final Call
Just a few months later, it would be swept aside by the radically aerodynamic, lozenge-shaped Sierra, but in early 1982 the Ford Cortina MkV was still a market-dominating machine in the U.K. Indeed, even after…
Dacia 1300: The Original Romanian Renault
Something different today! Like many Eastern Bloc cars, the Dacia 1300 had an unnaturally long life. Changing economic and political circumstances, and some clever updating and modifying, meant that what began as a licensed 1969…
Subaru Turbo RX: Before They Were Stars
It’s 25+ years since the world got to know the Subaru WRX thanks to the exploits of Carlos Sainz and the late, great Colin McRae, to say nothing of Gran Turismo and Sega Rally Championship….
1937 Hispano-Suiza K6 Break de Chasse: Supreme Spanish-Swiss
Behold, Wagon Wednesday’s ultimate warrior: a 1937 Hispano-Suiza K6, complete with an original, one-of-one woody wagon body by Franay. Technically, it’s not a “wagon” but a “Break De Chasse,” which is French for “Shooting Brake,”…
Jeep CJ-8 Scrambler: The Original Wrangler Pickup
The Jeep CJ-8 is most famous for being the first “Wrangler pickup,” even though there are two significant flaws in that designation. First, the CJ-8 was built long before the Wrangler name debuted (in 1987),…
Honda Civic Wagon Mk1: Van Or Wagovan
Is it a wagon, or a minivan, or a hatch? All three, maybe? One of Honda’s most important but least heralded 1980s moments came when the Mk3 Civic arrived in the fall of 1983. This…