Class of ’86 – Oldsmobile Toronado

Image courtesy oldcarbrochures.com Looking back over the vehicles we’ve so far selected for the Class of 1986, we can pretty quickly come to a couple conclusions about the vehicles in showrooms that year. One, it was a year that saw great downsizing, thanks in part to the previous decade’s fuel crises and to the early […]

From the My Hemmings pages: Jig’s ’59

We’ve all gone through the family albums and seen at least a car or two that we wish one of our elders would have hung on to for us to enjoy nowadays. For most of us, those cars have been out of reach since grampa sold ‘em off for $25, but for 59BlueBomber over on […]

Hemmings Find of the Day – Oleg Cassini AMC Matador

We know what you’re thinking. Another Matador? What on earth did the husband of Gene Tierney and official designer for first lady Jacqueline Kennedy’s wardrobe have to do with this mighty 1974 AMC Matador? Everything. Cassini lent a further touch of class to the already elegant Matador. The designer Matador was a pre-emptive strike against […]