Clamshell! Fins! Roof rack! Rally-type wheels! I probably shouldn’t forward this 1976 Buick Estate Wagon to Litwin, because he’ll go raid his savings account and drag me on a road trip to California to buy it. Then again, maybe it’s high time I got out of Vermont for a few days… From the seller’s description: […]

On the one hand, Bob Tomaine’s story on the naming of cars, engines, transmissions, options and whatnot from SIA #88, August 1985, can be regarded as little more than a list of neat product names from the 1950s, little to get excited about. On the other hand, while cruising through it, you start to realize […]

My mother has always referred to Karmann Ghias as “pickles.” I have no idea how that nickname ever came about, but in honor of her birthday today, let’s take a look at this pickle 1974 Volkswagen Karmann Ghia out of Claremont, California. From the seller’s description: This car has been with only two owners for […]