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1976 Buick Opel by Isuzu

Buick Opel Isuzu: All Dressed Up For Nobody

in Junkyarding World Cars on 10/04/2020 10/04/2020 Share Facebook Twitter Pinterest Email

We love unusual badge-ups, and this one brings together a very odd trio. It looks like an Opel Kadett C, but it’s actually called the “Buick Opel Isuzu.” Confused? Well, all three brands were part…

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1983 Buick Riviera Convertible

1982 Buick Riviera: Convertible Comeback

in American Cars on 09/27/2020 09/27/2020 Share Facebook Twitter Pinterest Email

American convertibles had been all but dead for six years when, at the Chicago Auto Show in February, 1982, Buick debuted a brand new droptop Riviera.

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1997 Alfa-Romeo Spider (Tipo 916)

Alfa-Romeo Tipo 916: The Next Generation

in Italian Cars on 09/20/2020 09/20/2020 Share Facebook Twitter Pinterest Email

It was the summer of 1995 and finally, a new Alfa Spider had arrived – at least for Europeans. After 27 years, the last of the old 105-series Spiders rolled off the line in April…

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1974 Buick Riviera

1974 Buick Riviera: the Lost Generation

in American Cars Junkyarding on 09/18/2020 09/19/2020 Share Facebook Twitter Pinterest Email

The 1974-76 Buick Riviera is essentially a forgotten car today, lingering in the deep shadow left by the famous ‘71-’73 Boattail cars and built in relatively small numbers. The car actually didn’t look bad at…

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1979 Alfa-Romeo AlfaSud Ti

AlfaSud Ti: The Pocket Rocket

in Italian Cars on 09/12/2020 09/12/2020 Share Facebook Twitter Pinterest Email

If Starsky and Hutch had been from Napoli instead of Bay City, this is how they would have rolled – in a striped, souped up AlfaSud Ti. The front-drive AlfaSud wasn’t quite as tail-happy as…

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1991 BMW Z1

BMW Z1: The Ultimate Dreaming Machine

in German Cars on 09/06/2020 09/07/2020 Share Facebook Twitter Pinterest Email

The tall sides and wedge shape may say “eighties,” but the BMW Z1 still looks like the future even 30+ years after it broke cover. Z is for zukunft – German for future – and…

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1973 Renault 16

Flashback: The Detective’s Renault 16

in Flashback French Cars on 09/01/2020 08/30/2020 Share Facebook Twitter Pinterest Email

A Renault 16 from the OldMotors archives today as we flash back to booming 1970s Abidjan, the cosmopolitan heart of Côte d’Ivoire. Admittedly, it doesn’t look so “cosmopolitan” here, but at the time Côte d’Ivoire…

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1970 Rover P6 3500 S

Rover P6: Modern Disguised as Traditional

in British Cars on 08/29/2020 08/30/2020 Share Facebook Twitter Pinterest Email

James Bond might have driven Astons, but George Smiley was a Rover P6 man. Alec Guinness gave Smiley international TV fame two years after Star Wars, and two years after P6 production ended. Guinness was…

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1977 Cadillac Seville

Cadillac Seville Mk1: Arriving in Style

in American Cars on 08/22/2020 08/22/2020 Share Facebook Twitter Pinterest Email

Usually, big corporate decisions aren’t made on the Friday before Christmas. But in the case of the Cadillac Seville, that’s exactly what happened. Circumstances dictated the urgency.  On December 21, 1973, a breezy, cold and…

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1989 Pontiac LeMans GSE

1987-93 Pontiac LeMans: Partners at Odds

in Korean Cars World Cars on 08/15/2020 08/15/2020 Share Facebook Twitter Pinterest Email

It seemed like a great idea – take a respected small car designed in Germany, where engineers know about good dynamics and quality cars, manufacture it cheaply in South Korea, then sell it in America…

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Saab 9-7x

Saab 9-7x: An Oldsmobile Becomes a TrollBlazer

in Swedish Cars Trucks on 08/14/2020 08/14/2020 Share Facebook Twitter Pinterest Email

Not-so-old Motors today and the famous (infamous?) “TrollBlazer.” Saab’s 9-7x was the least Saab-like Saab of all time and came to be a symbol of GM’s mishandling of its Swedish subsidiary. It seemed like an…

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1963 Bonnet Djet

Bonnet Djet: The Mid-Engined Arms Race

in French Cars on 08/08/2020 08/08/2020 Share Facebook Twitter Pinterest Email

The “D” in Djet was there purely for pronunciation purposes. The car’s creator, the already famous René Bonnet, wasn’t sure if his fellow French would properly pronounce the English-language word “Jet!” the way he wanted….

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