With certain cars, you know at a glance the target audience that the automaker had in mind, even moreso nowadays, with automakers scrambling to define and fill every segment under the sun. In the 1960s, with just a few lines of cars in each automaker’s repertoire, it took some creative option and bodystyle combinations to […]
Apparently, at one point in time, Richard Petty’s mother told an interviewer that she didn’t name her son “Dick,” she named him “Richard.” Perhaps she stated that in response to articles like Jim McMichael’s profile on King Richard in the March 1961 issue of Mechanix Illustrated, in which he chummily mixes in a “Dick” here […]
Wagons are cool nowadays, in a way that they never were when new. But all that metal and glass inevitably makes them quite a bit heavier than coupe or convertible versions of the same car, and thus quite a bit slower. This 1958 Plymouth Sport Suburban for sale on Hemmings.com, however, benefited from the start […]