Hemmings Find of the Day – 1953 Packard Cavalier

While yesterday’s Valiant four-door can be regarded as a simple old car, this 1953 Packard Cavalier, also a four-door, merits consideration as something above and beyond – a true classic, if you will. From the seller’s description: 1953 Packard Cavalier 4-door sedan. It has the 327 cubic inch straight 8 motor, with an automatic transmission. […]

Hemmings Find of the Day – 1971 Plymouth Valiant

Most of the collector car world is focused on old cars that have some additional element to them – some degree of collectibility or flash or exoticness or muscle. Aside from our Driveable Dream features, not very often do we consider old cars that are simply old cars without those elements, nor do we consider […]

From across the heavens …

Comes this. Well, actually, from across the parking lot at Fonda Speedway in New York, the historic dirt track, where I stumbled upon this a month ago. It’s a 1973 Mercury Comet, one of about 29,000 four-door sedans total. Fewer than half, including this one, had the 302-cu.in. V-8.
Even fewer had the Custom option we see […]