The Magic Mustang
September 14, 2016
By Ronald Ahrens / Originally Published August 5, 2016 / Hagerty / In late July, Gary Schweitzer set out for Buffalo as a bundle of nerves with a trailer in tow. The 55-year-old school teacher from Traverse City, Mich., was on his way to the Mustang Club of America’s national show, Mustangs on the Niagara, to ...
Here’s a truckload of your favorite pickups
July 9, 2016
By Jeff Peek / Originally Published May 6, 2016 / Hagerty / America, you love your trucks. And boy, are you loyal. We asked for the greatest truck of all time – make, model and year – and you did not disappoint. From a 1932 Plymouth to a super-fresh 2016 Ford F-150, you went with what you’d ...
Five muscle machines that broke the mold
June 20, 2016
By Jim Koscs / Originally Published April 25, 2016 / Hagerty / In the ’60s and ’70s, “muscle car” most often meant a midsize American coupe with a high-performance V-8 and rear-wheel drive, period. But as Detroit performance started making a comeback in the late 1980s, and with V-8s on the decline, carmakers began stretching that ...
Lowrider Cars: A Cornerstone of Car Culture
May 2, 2016
By Benjamin Hunting / Originally Published April 20, 2016 / National Automotive Parts Association / Lowrider cars have been a source of fascination for gearheads since they first appeared on the California scene in the late 1950s. The product of Mexican-American creativity and Detroit’s golden age of full-size sedans and coupes, the first lowrider cars spawned a culture ...
Classic Classified: 1966 Oldsmobile Toronado
April 16, 2016
By Greg Ingold / Originally Published January 19, 2016 / Hagerty / From: Hemmings Motor News Date: March 1989 Price then: $6,500 ($12,400 adjusted for inflation, about the cost of a new 2016 Suzuki GSX-R600 Motorcycle today) Price now: $10,900 – $40,700 Approximate dollar difference: $28,200 (assuming No. 1 condition) Annual rate of return: 4.4% Olds: ...
Top Ten Car Songs of Rock and Roll
March 16, 2016
By Tara Hurlin / Originally Published Januay 6, 2016 / Hagerty / In this day and age, you may find yourself feeling way overdue for a good old fashioned car song; not the kind of song that just happens to mention a car while singing about something else, but a musical foot-tapping masterpiece that pays homage ...
Beauty’s Got Muscle: A true love story between woman and car
March 9, 2016
By Tara Hurlin / Originally Published December 16, 2015 / Hagerty / When Katie Poletti was growing up in Long Island, N.Y., she immersed herself in the best of both worlds by playing with Hot Wheels and Barbie dolls; she loved to wear flowing dresses but was commonly seen in dirty overalls. Her father had a ...
Demolition Derby Cars: A History of Chaos
January 21, 2016
By Benjamin Hunting / Originally Published January 15, 2016 / National Automotive Parts Association / Demolition derby cars lead a hard life. In fact, you could say every car that enters a derby is about to undergo the worst retirement party imaginable. These clunkers, typically at the end of their useful lives, rarely emerge from the other side ...
Five Powerful Front Wheel-Drive Classics
December 24, 2015
By Hagerty / Originally Published October 2, 2015 / Hagerty / Front-drivers aren’t universally loved by enthusiasts for a number of reasons. Their inability to perform a good, old-fashioned smoky burnout, coupled with handling defined by benign understeer rather than hairy-chested, opposite-lock oversteer, make front-wheel-drive cars — in the eyes of some — appropriate only for family ...
Classic Classified: 1970 Chevrolet Chevelle SS 454 LS6
November 30, 2015
By Greg Ingold / Originally Published October 27, 2015 / Hagerty / From: Hemmings Motor News Date: March 1989 Price then: $30,000 ($57,700 adjusted for inflation, about the cost of a new 2015 Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 today) Price now: $61,300 – $172,000 Approximate dollar difference: $114,300 (assuming No. 1 condition) Annual rate of return: 4.3% Chevelle: 1970, ...
Nonsense Names: Five car names that aren’t actually words
November 12, 2015
By Hagerty / Originally Published September 28, 2015 / Hagerty / What’s in a name? In the case of the examples below, not much more than a lot of marketing and a trademark registration. Yep, the names of the cars on this list were made up by someone clever, every one of them. Toyota Camry: The company ...
Classic Classified: 1978 Porsche 924
October 9, 2015
By Greg Ingold / Originally Published August 11, 2015 / Hagerty / From: Hemmings Motor News Date: March 1989 Price then: $6,000 ($11,500 adjusted for inflation – about the cost of a new 2015 Nissan Versa today) Price now: $3,000 – $14,400 Approximate dollar difference: $3,000 (assuming No. 1 condition) Approximate annual rate of return: .08% PORSCHE: ...
