Autos
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10 Ramblers so rare even collectors rarely see them
For 1957, American Motors built exactly 1,500 copies of a silver four-door hardtop with a 327 V8, and the Rambler Rebel became a factory hot…
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12 forgotten cars from the 1950s we swear we’d never sell
In 1955, Packard put a 352-cubic-inch V8 into its new Packard Four Hundred hardtop, a bigger engine than Cadillac, Chrysler or Lincoln offered that year.…
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8 Thunderbirds that quietly became icons
The first Ford Thunderbird was a two-seat car with a V8. In 1955, it also outsold the Corvette by a wide margin. From there, the…
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12 muscle cars most car fans have never seen
The 1966 Chevy II Nova SS came standard with a six-cylinder engine, which tells you how loosely the muscle era handed out its badges. In…
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Chrysler sold its first Hemi V8 as the FirePower in 1951, and the 331 cu in engine made 180 hp
Chrysler’s FirePower Hemi arrived for the 1951 model year as a 331-cubic-inch V8 rated at 180 horsepower. Chrysler did not sell it as a “Hemi”…
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12 hot rods worth remembering
Hot Rod magazine put Bob McGee’s red 1932 Ford roadster on its cover as the first street car to make it there. That single image…
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The Griswolds’ Wagon Queen Family Truckster was a 1979 Ford LTD Country Squire with eight headlights
The Wagon Queen Family Truckster is the station wagon every family hoped they would never get stuck with. In National Lampoon’s Vacation, Clark Griswold drives…
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10 forgotten British sports cars we love more than collectors do
In 1959, a company famous for stately saloons showed a fiberglass V8 roadster to American buyers and called it the Daimler SP250. That car sums…
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9 rare Volvos that changed how people saw the brand
Volvo showed its first sports car, the fiberglass Volvo P1900, on 2 June 1954, and it flopped. That early miss still matters, because it pushed…
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12 motorcycle engines we’d quietly rank above everything else
Honda began full design work on the CB750 in February 1968 and shipped the first bikes to America just 14 months later. The Honda CB750…
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