The Scout gets most of the ink today when people talk about International Harvester SUVs, but it actually appeared several years after the company’s first SUV, the jumbo-sized International Travelall. Yes, General Motors built an…
Posts tagged Cars of the 1960s
1971 Plymouth GTX: The Heat Of The Moment
The Plymouth GTX lasted just five years as a stand-alone model, and the car was a resounding sales dud, but they were five glorious, bonkers years. The 1971 GTX seen here was the slowest seller…
Simca 1204: Mésaventure Américaine
Almost 2.2 million were made. It set the template for countless small cars, including legends still with us today, like the VW Golf and Honda Civic. But in the U.S., this little car is all…
Renault R6: La Régie’s Forgotten Overachiever
Practical, plebeian and cheap, the Renault R6 was a forward-thinking hatch sold in the millions but survivors are very rare today.
1963 Trabant 600: An Early Trabbi Becomes A Car Show Hero
The Trabant 600 was the last of the early series Trabbis and a car still competitive with Western alternatives when new, but it was built for just two years.
Mercedes W111 250SE Coupe: The Finer Things
Even in the long evolution of Mercedes-Benz style, few cars have looked as timeless as the W111/W112 coupes. They were designed 60 years ago, but they don’t look like a car of 1960. The coupes…
Lotus Elite Type 14: The Unbearable Lightness Of Being Fast
When the Type 14 Lotus Elite wowed the crowd at Earls Court in 1957, just nine years had passed since Colin Chapman had built his very first race car. After a meteoric rise in motorsport,…
Gallery: Avants Classics on the Green 2021
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…
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…
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…
1968 Ford LTD: The Brougham Branches Out
Over the course of about 25 years, the LTD name filtered through dozens of family Fords, from the biggest and broughamy-est land yachts of the 1970s to a midsize Fox variation in in the 1980s…
Studebaker Lark Wagonaire: The Open Air Wagon
Short on resources but never on pluck, Studebaker slunk into the early sixties with once again slumping sales and no easy way to turn things around. The Lark Wagonaire, a wagon with new lines and…