Today we’ve got some highlights from the Avants: Classics on the Green show, held at Chateau St. Michelle winery. We’ll be adding more to our gallery from Classics on the Green 2021 as we process…
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Gallery: Radwood PNW 2021
We usually post show galleries to our Facebook page, but not everybody uses that platform, so for the first time ever we’ve decided to host a gallery here. All of these photos were taken at…
Honda Accord Aerodeck: The Shooting Brake Experiment
At the end of the eighties the Honda Accord became America’s best-selling car, the first foreign car to achieve that title, though this Accord Aerodeck wasn’t involved in that particular quest. It was 1989. Honda…
Porsche 912E: Don’t Judge a Book by its Cover
It looks like a 911, yes, but this is a Porsche 912E, a combination of the 911 shell and the 914’s 2.0L flat four. This unusual Porsche was sold for just one year, 1976, and…
Isuzu I-Mark RS Twin-Cam: Party Like It’s 1989
This monochrome Isuzu is as red, and as rad, as they come, complete with fender badges advertising its “Lotus-tuned handling” and even larger stickers alerting passersby to its high-winding DOHC 16-VALVE engine, a big deal…
Fiat 124 Coupe: Europe’s First Pony Car
In the USA, at least, the Fiat 124 Coupe dwells in the long shadow of its Spider sister, but globally, the closed car may have been the more important vehicle. It was also the better…
Velorex 16/350: Czechoslovakia’s Cult Cyclecar
Once the subject of considerable ridicule, today this little Czech trike is today a highly-prized oddball with the same kind of charm as a Morgan three-wheeler. In a way, that’s not so surprising, as the…
Range Rover Classic: The Beginning of the Luxe Truck
Even Bentley and Rolls-Royce make SUVs today, as unusual as that idea might once have seemed, and 2021’s roads are chock-a-block with luxe utilities. That might not have happened if not for two pioneering trucks,…
Lamborghini Espada: Sant’Agata’s Four-Seat Masterpiece
There are few things finer than a Lamborghini that you can take friends along in, and I don’t mean the (ahem) Urus. It’ll cost you plenty now, but for many years the Lamborghini Espada was…
The Popular Winner: 1975 Hurst/Olds
The first GM car to use Hurst parts in an official capacity was a Pontiac (the 1961 Super Duty Catalina), but the most famous GM-Hurst collaboration would be the Hurst/Olds, offered in five distinct iterations…
Ford Festiva: The Cult Favorite
As is often the case with the cheapest new cars, nobody expected very much of the Ford Festiva. When new, it was a bottom-feeder. It was a cut above similarly cheap cars like the Hyundai…
Volvo PV445 Duett: Birth of the Volvo Wagon
At first glance the Volvo Duett looks like a simple wagon version of the Swedish automaker’s PV444 and 544, but under the skin it’s a very different story. The 444 was a radically advanced car…