Hemmings Find of the Day – 1977 AMC Matador

The Matador coupe is one of those 1970s love-it-or-hate-it designs, perhaps even more polarizing than the Gremlin, Pacer, Vega and Pinto. It’s, of course, the bug-eyed Colonnade-like design that makes it so: After all, the coupe generates way more comments than the more conservative Matador sedan. This 1977 AMC Matador coupe, one of the desirable […]

Found: Earliest photo of Chevrolet’s Oakland plant?

To Richard Quinn, I apologize. You see, almost exactly three years ago Richard sent us the above photo, which he scanned from an 8×10 glass negative that’s been in his collection for years. I thought it was worth investigating, then let it get buried in the never-ending Inbox avalanche, until just recently.
My first inclination was […]