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 ...
The Last Surviving WWI Veteran
July 26, 2015
By The Historic Vehicle Association / Originally Published June 23, 2015 / Hagerty / When the living connections to history begin to vanish, all we are left with are objects. And while these objects cannot speak for themselves, they still carry within them as many stories and memories as those who were there. With the last World ...
The oddest VW Beetle accessories of all time
June 29, 2015
By Hagerty / Originally Published May 20, 2015 / Hagerty / The original air-cooled VW Beetle was in production from about 1946 until the early 2000s when production finally wound down in Mexico. Throughout that time, the differences in appearance were subtle at best. VW’s own ad campaign made light of the fact that the annual model year changes ...
What Drives You: The need for speed and back again
June 18, 2015
By Tara Hurlin / Originally Published May 13, 2015 / Hagerty / Of the 100,085 1969 Mercury Cougars produced, 66,351 were hardtops, and 510 of those came with the Ram Air 428SCJ-4V engine. Automatic transmissions were installed in 304 of the 510. From there, 162 were equipped with the Eliminator Package, of which 61 were painted bright ...
1964 Pontiac GTO: A True American Muscle Car
June 17, 2015
With nicknames like the Goat, the Tiger and the Great One, the 1964 Pontiac GTO quickly earned a reputation as a true American muscle car (especially when equipped with the 348 hp Tri-Power engine). The GTO began as nothing more than a $296 extra-equipment package available on the $2,480 Pontiac Tempest LeMans. The GTO package included a floor shifter, ...
Five car nameplates that started with a bang but went out with a whimper
June 13, 2015
By Chris Paukert / Originally Published May 11, 2015 / Hagerty The automotive landscape is littered with new model nameplates that started out capturing the world’s imagination, only to end up as shells of their former selves through a labyrinth of bad corporate decisions and even worse luck. Here are five prime examples of cars that started ...
Evolution of the Ford Pickup: America’s Other Sweetheart
June 10, 2015
By Jim Koscs / Originally Published May 5, 2015 / Hagerty The all-new 2015 Ford Mustang dominated car news over the past six months, but in terms of market impact, something else Ford introduced will eventually affect millions more lives than the Mustang: the all-new F-150 pickup truck, the 13th design generation of Ford’s F-series. The 2015 ...
Secrets of the Chevelle
May 28, 2015
By Hagerty / Originally Published April 29, 2015 / Hagerty The Chevelle is one of America’s favorite classic muscle cars. If you turn on your favorite televised classic car auctions at random, chances are that there will be a Chevelle crossing the block. With so much attention, the Chevelle is pretty much an open book, yet here ...
