Class of ’85: Ford LTD Crown Victoria

Image via oldcarbrochures.com During the 1980s and 1990s, it seemed that by the time you passed retirement age, Ford simply gave you an LTD Crown Victoria. The elderly of those decades weren’t like the elderly of today, out buying Honda Elements and Scion xBs; noooo, the favored chariot of the blue-haired, Bermuda-shorts-and-black-socks crowd of yesteryear […]

Class of ’85: Jeep Cherokee

Image via oldcarbrochures.com You knew this was coming, especially after the Jeep ad insert scan I posted last month. Yes, SUVs have been with us in highway-clogging numbers for a quarter-century now, and the model that many auto historians hold responsible for popularizing the compact SUV is the Jeep Cherokee, known to its fans as […]

Class of ’85: Chevrolet Corvette

Image via oldcarbrochures.com Based upon your comments in last week’s Open Diff post, we seem to have come to an agreement that the Hemmings Six Degrees of Separation Challenges had outlived their usefulness. The basic question that we had posed – Can you connect any car company to any other car company in the world, […]