We’ve made some fairly safe choices these first few weeks into the Class of 1986. Nothing wrong with that, of course – just laying the groundwork. So let’s now go out on a limb with this week’s choice: the Hyundai Excel. It’s a safe bet that nobody reading this (and perhaps nobody in general) is […]

Readers of car magazines in the late ’70s and first half of the ’80s will remember a series of Porsche ads called “Consumer Orientation” in a “Series of Technical Papers.” As far as we can tell, they went up to #28, ending in 1986. They covered the 924 and 924 Turbo, 944 and 944 Turbo, […]

Cars change hands all the time, and each time they do so, it seems something goes missing from the car. It might be a part or a trinket, a spare key or the owner’s manual, but more often, it’s a little bit of history that gets separated from the car at each sale. After all, […]