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: ...
Classic Classified: 1965 Chevrolet Impala SS 396
October 1, 2015
By Greg Ingold / Originally Published August 6, 2015 / Hagerty / From: Hemmings Motor News Date: March 1989 Price then: $17,500 (33,700 adjusted for inflation – about the cost of a new 2015 Chevrolet Impala today) Price now: $23,500 – $74,500 Approximate dollar difference: $41,000 (assuming No. 1 condition) Approximate annual rate of return: 3% IMPALA: ...
Five Classic Cars for Under 5K
September 20, 2015
By Tara Hurlin / Originally Published August 4, 2015 / Hagerty / Here is some good news for car enthusiasts everywhere: You don’t need an overflowing wallet to enjoy life with a classic car. There are a wide variety of vehicles to be found for under 5 grand that could tickle anyone’s fancy, including —but by no ...
Top Ten Classic Droptops
September 18, 2015
By Hagerty / Originally Published July 28, 2015 / Hagerty / There’s nothing quite like driving a convertible. They force you to slow down and enjoy your surroundings rather than just drive to a destination. In fact, they were designed and built with pleasure driving in mind. Now that summer is here with a vengeance, check out ...
Back To The Future: Classic Concept Cars
September 16, 2015
It’s the year 2015. If you’re a child of the 80s and have had your expectations set by a certain blockbuster film, you’ve got just one question for the motor industry: where are all the flying cars? Though we don’t have flying cars just yet, that doesn’t mean we haven’t had car designers who have looked ...