Most of the time, when car enthusiasts picture an Oldsmobile Toronado, it’s the daring original version that bowed in the fall of 1965. That sleek machine, the first front-drive American car in 30 years at…
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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…
Chevrolet 454SS: Old School Truck, New School Shape
Muscle pickups, briefly popular in the 1970s in the form of trucks like Dodge’s “L’il Red Express,” made a comeback in the early 1990s and the first manufacturer to really unleash them was GM. In…
1969-73 Opel GT: GM’s International Sports Car
It must have been an odd sight – a miniature Corvette sitting in a showroom across from herds of loaded Buick land yachts, but the Opel GT was a success for Opel and for U.S. Buick dealers.
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…
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…
Flashback: Snowed In Chevy Monza Spyder
If you’re old enough you’ll remember the anxiety of heading back to your aging snowbound car after leaving it somewhere in the elements for a day or two and wondering if it will start. But…
Vauxhall Victor F-series: Tri-Five in Miniature
You don’t often see Vauxhalls in the USA, but for a little while, one member of GM’s British contingent was as transatlantic as Katherine Hepburn’s accent. What you see here is an F-type Vauxhall Victor,…
1973-75 Pontiac Grand Am: Right Place, Wrong Time
Years later, reincarnated as a small front-driver riding GM’s N-body platform, the Pontiac Grand Am would become the excitement division’s best-selling car. The original Grand Am, sometimes forgotten in the wake of that success, got…
Buick Opel Isuzu: All Dressed Up For Nobody
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…
1982 Buick Riviera: Convertible Comeback
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.
Cadillac Seville Mk1: Arriving in Style
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…