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 […]

While reorganizing the bookshelves at home, I pulled out an old favorite title that I hadn’t read in some years – Tom Couch’s U-R What You Drive. I got this book when it was brand new, in 1987, and although I have no memory of what else I may have received that year, this gift definitely became one of my […]

Normally, Valiants aren’t much to write home about. Sure, they can be cool, in a nerd car kind of way, but they were the 1960s version of the 1990s Honda Accord – boring ol’ transportation modules. When you see one with a $45k price tag, however, like this 1969 Plymouth Valiant for sale on Hemmings.com, […]