It’s a shame the second-generation Mercury Marauder had to come about just as the earth-tone 1970s were beginning, because we see way too many of them in colors unbecoming a car with such an awesome name. It’s like giving the name “bearclaw” to a pastry. Still, the pastry is delicious, and Marauders, including this maroon-over-tan […]
The Ford Capri oozed just the kind of image and style that appealed to buyers in late-1960s Europe. More than 200,000 were sold in the first year alone, thanks in no small part to the coupe’s classic long-nose, short-deck styling. But the identity of the stylist responsible for the car’s lines has been an enduring […]
What’s most remarkable about early customs – and I’m talking those from the 1930s through the 1950s – is that the guys customizing them weren’t fiddling with cars more than a year or two old. It had to have taken some fortitude to lower and chop the top of a brand-new car, as Charles Marr […]