If there’s one thing that sets cars from the sixties apart from the crowd, it’s the fact that they wore their performance pedigree on the outside. This lime-green Dodge Swinger proudly displays its engine displacement (340 cubic inches) on its hood scoops, letting the guy in the next lane know what he’s dealing with…
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Johnny Cash sang of the hardships of trying to assemble a Cadillac from stolen parts of many model years in his 1976 hit, “One Piece At A Time.” As the song says, there was a little bit of every Caddy from the 1950′s through to the 1970′s. With all due respect, the late, great Mr. [...]
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Ever have one of those cars that keeps breaking down, no matter how many times you restore it? Rebuild the engine, the transmission blows. Replace the rearend gears, and the driveshaft U-joints wear out. Every time you fix it, you think “that’s it, it’s all done, it’s ready to rock cruise night,” just in time [...]
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**UPDATE** Our fearless retailer, McNally Robinson, is now stocking “Class of 2009″ in their online store. Click here to order your copy today! It’s not just older cars that get their day in our book, “Class of 2009.” With the number of motorcycles and recent-model cars running around, it’s hard to imagine any attempt [...]
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So I got talking with one of my co-workers today, and he mentioned something interesting: “Yeah, I’m waiting on that new Dodge electric thing, the EV it’s called? Yeah, I’d drive one of those.” This is the same guy who keeps a poster of a Ford V8 engine behind his desk, and he’s holding [...]
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The beautiful orange beast that you see here is a pre-production 2008 Dodge Charger SRT. More specifically, it’s the one being driven from coast to coast to promote A&W’s Cruisin’ the Dub. The prototype Dodge started its journey in Vancouver BC, when Chrysler handed the keys over to Roger Barnes, the national manager for Cruisin’ [...]
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