Chevrolet made a brief return to the ’60s muscle car mileau with the 1994-96 Impala SS, offering a respectable performance package in a roomy four-door platform. Continue reading
Category Archives: Auto History
Don’t Try This at Home: A 1973 Chevy Truck Commercial
Here’s one of the great TV commercial stunts of all time: a Chevy pickup pulling seven trailers loaded with 178 tons of logs. Watch this. Continue reading
GM’s Radical 1933 Albanita
In 1933, General Motors engineers developed this test mule with a tubular backbone chassis, four-wheel independent suspension—and a surprise under the hood. Continue reading
America’s Low-Priced V12: The 1932-34 Auburn 12
Offering depression-era buyers maximum bang for their buck, Auburn at one point marketed its muscular V12 at a rock-bottom price of just $975. Continue reading
The First Hatchbacks? Kaiser-Frazer’s 1949-53 Traveler and Vagabond
In 1949, the resourceful engineers at Kaiser-Frazer came up with a clever sedan-station wagon hybrid that was marketed as the Traveler and Vagabond. Continue reading
Streamlined Dreams: The 1937 Airomobile
The steamlined, three-wheeled Airomobile had no future, but its flat-four, air-cooled engine would later make its mark on the aviation world. Continue reading
A Lost GM Show Car: The 1964 Pontiac GTO Flamme
This tastefully customized GTO convertible appeared at the 1964 New York World’s Fair, and then it disappeared. Or maybe not. Continue reading