Bobby Clark
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8 Oldsmobile Rocket V8 displacements from the 1949 303 to the 1968 455
Oldsmobile sold its first V8 as the Rocket from 1949, and by 1968 the Oldsmobile Rocket V8 had grown from 303 cubic inches to 455.…
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7 Jaguar XJ saloons from the 1968 Series 1 to the 2009 X351
Jaguar launched the XJ saloon in September 1968, and the name lasted through several complete redesigns. Each Jaguar XJ series below changed something real: the…
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Earl Muntz built about 198 Muntz Jets from 1950 to 1954 and lost money on every one
Earl “Madman” Muntz knew how to sell used cars and television sets, yet his own car never made him a dime. Between 1950 and 1954,…
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Nudie Cohn gave Webb Pierce’s 1962 Pontiac Bonneville revolver door handles and a silver-dollar interior
Webb Pierce’s Bonneville is a white 1962 Pontiac convertible that a Hollywood tailor turned into a rolling stage costume. Nudie Cohn covered its cabin in…
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A Nash-Healey finished third overall at Le Mans in 1952, beaten only by two Mercedes-Benz 300 SLs
In June 1952, a Nash-Healey driven by Leslie Johnson and Tommy Wisdom finished third overall in the 24 Hours of Le Mans. Only the two…
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8 Honda cars that proved what Honda engineers could do
Honda’s 606cc S600 roadster made 57 horsepower in 1964, which works out to about 94 horsepower per liter. The Honda S600 showed how the company’s…
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The Summers brothers’ four-engine Goldenrod averaged 409.277 mph at Bonneville in 1965 without a jet
Bob Summers had one hour to make two runs across the Bonneville Salt Flats on November 12, 1965. When the timers finished, his Goldenrod streamliner…
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8 chrome-era cars that still draw a crowd at shows
Between 1954 and 1961, Detroit sold Plexiglas roofs, folding steel tops and pink trim packages alongside the 300-horsepower Chrysler C-300. Today, those same cars are…
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BMW’s U.S. importer Max Hoffman sent the 507 to Albrecht Goertz in New York, and BMW built only about 250
The BMW 507 roadster first started as a sales pitch from a car dealer in New York. Max Hoffman, BMW’s importer in the United States,…
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7 personal-luxury coupes that owners refuse to sell at any price
A new Continental Mark II cost nearly $10,000 in 1956, when a Corvette stickered for $2,800. Such a gap sums up the personal-luxury coupe: two…
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