Back when Detroit was first getting serious about mass-producing high-output models, car magazines provided enthusiasts with a direct line to the latest developments, and right in the thick of it was Martyn Schorr, who spent most of the ’60s and early ’70s as the editor of High Performance Cars magazine. The position afforded Schorr the […]
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 […]
Burt Reynolds? Nuh-uh. Jerry Reed in Smokey in the Bandit 3? Nope. Whether Jackie Gleason himself conceived the turbocharged Trans Am somewhere in between Music, Martinis, and Memories and the early Eighties is uncertain, but we do know this. Given the proximity of the turbocharger and the four-barrel carburetor on top of the 301-cubic-inch V-8, […]