Archive for March, 2011
by Chad Tyson in Listings, Vintage Cars
Want snarling V8 performance, megaphone sidepipe exhaust, and sleek curves that’ll turn heads anywhere? You should be looking at a Cobra. And if you don’t have $400k+ for an original 289 roadster (or $600k+ for an original 427 roadster), you’re in luck, because replicas can give you nearly the same experience for a tenth of [...]
by Chad Tyson in Listings, Vintage Cars
Looking for an affordable vintage sports car you can drive regularly? This ’71 240Z could be just the ticket. It looks great in red over black and appears to be clean from top to bottom. And really clean examples are pretty rare today, as they were cheap for years, suffered from rust, and had a [...]
by Tony Piff in Listings, Vintage Cars
Looking for some Mopar muscle? Want something classier than the bare-bones rubber-mat Road Runner or Super Bee? This red and white Coronet R/T could be your car. The seller calls it all original with matching numbers, and it’s said to have a straight body, its factory interior, and no rust. It’s just the thing for [...]
by Tony Piff in Listings, Vintage Cars
Talk about bare-bones minimal—the 2CV was designed for peasants in the French countryside. It’s pretty much a fabric-roofed tin can, compared to any modern car. But the underpinnings are strong, and the cars actually hold up well, even in the hands of James Bond. He used a yellow one like this to escape captors in [...]
by Tony Piff in Listings, Vintage Cars
The 280SL was always more of a wine & cheese picnic-mobile than a hard-cornering rally car. The “Pagodas” offered the fun of two-seat open-top motoring with the luxurious conveniences of a larger car, like wood grain on the dash, leg room underneath, usable trunk space, and a soft, forgiving suspension. 1971 280SLs, like the one [...]
by Tony Piff in Listings, Vintage Cars
This ’57 Ford Country Sedan Wagon has “not a speck of rust or filler anywhere” and “absolutely, positively no known mechanical issues.” The confident seller describes the body as “laser straight,” chrome and trim as “virtually perfect,” and glass as “original and perfect.” Station wagons in the ’50s, ’60s, and ’70s were just cars—they were [...]
by Tony Piff in Listings, Vintage Cars
This ’60 Impala bubble top is a fishbowl on wheels. It has a panoramic 360 degrees of visibility, made possible by roof pillars so narrow that you’ll have to squint to see them. The squared-off trunk fins are less ridiculous than the swoopy bat wings adorning the 1959 version, and they give the car a [...]
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