By Larry Printz / Originally Published June 3, 2014 / Hagerty Can a great car repair your relationship or, better yet, save it? It’s possible, if you buy a car that fits your personality. We’re here to help, with five collector cars that set the mood and can help restore the romance in your relationship. 1932 ...

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English-speaking car lovers may disagree on how to pronounce it, but they seldom argue about what a huge impact Porsche has had on the automotive industry.  Few realize, though, that the first car ever designed by Ferdinand Porsche was electric.  By 1948, when Porsche introduced the Type 356 as their first production vehicle and the first sports car to bear the Porsche name, Ferdinand already had several decades ...

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By Jim Koscs / Originally Published May 27, 2014 / Hagerty Forty years ago, Pontiac bookended the muscle car market with one car that many consider to be a low point of the genre, and another that proudly parks in the upper echelon alongside Hemis, LS6 Chevelles and Boss Mustangs. The Pontiac Division retired the ...

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By Rob Sass / Originally Published May 21, 2014 / Hagerty RM Auctions of Blenheim, Ontario, will be auctioning a rare open Ford GT40 prototype at its sale in Monterey, Calif., this August. Although the auction company hasn’t disclosed a pre-sale estimate, it will almost certainly be in eight figures and set a world record for ...

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By Rob Sass / Originally Published May 9, 2014 / Hagerty The classic car world is possibly one of the most opinionated collecting pursuits known to man, and nearly everyone seems to have an opinion on relative values and desirability. Each car on this list has at one time or another been deemed by “experts” ...

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By Marty K / Originally Published June 3, 2014 / Hagerty   The car bug bit me at a young age. I was 15 years old living in St. Louis, Missouri. My first car was a 1951 Plymouth two door that my uncle sold to me for $5, with the understanding that I would fix it ...

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By Rob Sass / Originally Published April 4, 2014 / Hagerty As Americans, we’re used to our performance cars coming in relatively large packages— Tire-smoking muscle cars with big-block engines that proved there really was no substitute for cubic inches and no replacement for displacement. Or was there? The cars on this list are all ...

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The 1970 Dodge Challenger offered massive power in a two-ton package that was 191.5-in long and 76.5-in wide. Handling was, to put it mildly, not a strong point. The deeply recessed front grill tended to scoop air enough to have an effect in turns. Of course, handling twisties at speed wasn’t a big priority for the car. ...

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By Rob Sass / Originally Published March 28, 2014 / Hagerty The attrition rate of cars from the mid-disco to late Reagan-era is huge. And while we’d love to see someone somewhere driving any one of the cars on this list, in truth, we can’t remember the last time we saw any of them.  Here ...

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By Rob Sass / Originally Published April 18, 2014 / Hagerty In the run up to the big 50th anniversary of the Mustang, prices of the classic first version of the Mustang, the 1964½ (technically a 1965 model) through 1966, have been moving up. The best convertibles and fastbacks with the highest horsepower engines can ...

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Its top speed was just 97 mph, and it took a full 13 seconds to accelerate to 60 mph from a standing start. Still, it was arguably America’s first muscle car. The 1949 Oldsmobile 88 combined a new overhead valve Rocket V8 engine with a lighter, more streamlined design to offer a truly exhilarating ride. Compared to ...

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Every classic car guy has heard a tail about an incredible barn find. Well, here’s another one! This time it was a rare 1969 428 Mustang Shelby GT500 hidden beneath 40 years of dust. Once the dust was cleared, this rare muscle car was found to be in mint condition. Some people have theorized that the ...

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